News
9 Mar 2008 - Top Mastering Engineer Bob Katz reviews the Dynamics Toolbox
Bob Katz is a world renowned recording and mastering engineer located in Florida USA, and founder of Digital Domain which provides mixing & mastering services for records produced around the globe. His patented processes are in use around the world in better mastering rooms. Even though the Dynamics Toolbox wasn't designed primarily as a mastering compressor we were very interested in Bob's opinions about how the unit matched up to his very exacting standards... more
12 Nov 2007 - Technical White Paper for the Dynamics Toolbox is published
The White Paper includes the full design brief on the two switchable compression modes available in the Dynamics Toolbox including the brand new Dynamic Tracking compressor, especially suited for stereo submix and final mix applications.
Dynamic tracking compression was developed primarily for use during stereo submix and final mix duties. It allows the attack and release times set by the user to be dynamically modified by analogue processing which tracks the dynamic content of the audio material being processed. It's capable of working in two very distinct ways; with moderate settings of ratio and attack time, and set to auto release, it helps quickly glue elements of the mix together, but push into fast attack and short release time territory and you have access to a real in your face compressor which can pump and fizz drum tracks and anything else which needs some added character.
The full low down on the Dynamics Toolbox 'New York' style parallel compression is included in the White Paper. New York Compression became a trademark sound of many New York based mixing engineers and uses a form of parallel compression which mixes in a small amount of very heavily compressed stereo submix, usually drums or rhythm guitars, back into the main uncompressed submix. The beauty of this technique is that since you have full control of the blend between compressed and uncompressed submix strands, you retain the timbre and dynamics of the original submix whilst adding gritty texture via the heavily compressed element.
The White Paper also details the new limiter design which combines dynamic threshold and dynamic attack into a tool with a real dual personality; very fast clipping protection when tracking but also very useful as a creative tool in its own right when pushed into heavy levels of limiting.
Download the whitepaper directly as a pdf here, or view this and other downloads on our downloads page.
12 Nov 2007 - Safe Sound announces new dual channel compressor-limiter
We've had so many requests for a stereo version of the P1 that we decided to launch the Dynamics Toolbox which takes the core design of the P1 'peakride' compressor into a two channel stereo linkable format and adds a whole new set of enhanced features based on feedback from our P1 users.
Check out the details on the dynamics toolbox page
13 July 2007 : Safe Sound Audio gets two new distributors in Europe
To help bring the P1 Audio Processor closer to our customers, Digital Audio Service now handle sales for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and Audio Finland handle sales for Finland.
20 June 2007 : P1 gets another album credit
Robert Wiersma is a talented recording artist based in the Netherlands and is another long time P1 user. Check out Robert's latest album at http://members.home.nl/robertwiersma/music.htm which was recorded exclusively using P1 preamps. This album has gotten rave reviews and uses the P1's on vocals, DI'd Fender Telecaster and of course for a variety of great sounding compression effects.
You'll find the P1 credits at http://members.home.nl/robertwiersma/studio.htm
19 Nov 2006 : P1 gets it's first album credit!
Long time P1 user Matthew Sigmon has granted the P1 the ultimate accolade by giving it a credit on his new album entitled 'One Opens Up'. Matthew comments that 'The P1 was a tremendous asset in getting the kinds of sounds I wanted for this work'. You can preview and purchase the album at www.matthewsigmon.com.
