The Ebony A3 Tube Mono Channel Strip is a sleek-looking discrete Class A channel strip designed to heighten your audio experience. It has a tube stage with variable drive letting you control how creamy or cool your unit sounds.
Hand-assembled in England to the highest standards, the Ebony A3 channel strip uses stylish, quality chrome knobs together with a high-gloss black finish to make the exterior look just as smooth as the circuits sound. The Ebony Series has all the features you have come to expect from TL Audio, including balanced I/O, multi input options, analog VU metering and intuitive, precise controls. All units are also compatible with the TL Audio DO-2 digital S/PDIF interface for easy digital connectivity with high quality conversion.
A combination of supreme quality, unrivaled sound, and stylish aesthetics: This range offers superior analog processing to accompany a digital world.
Why Class-A?
Class A circuits are designed with constant current flowing through all of the transistors, which is sufficient to drive the peak output required from each block of the circuit. This ensures that every transistor is kept at its optimum operating point, minimizing non-linearity due to changes in current and internal thermal effects, and eliminating the objectionable "crossover" distortion typical of class AB circuits.
Due to the higher steady state (or "quiescent") currents used, the power dissipation of class A circuits is substantially higher than can generally be handled by integrated circuits. It is also possible to design discrete transistor circuits to operate at higher voltage rails than are available for audio integrated circuits, adding the benefit of greater headroom and improved dynamic range. For these reasons, there are no integrated circuits in the audio paths of the Ebony Series.
The outstanding audio quality is reflected in the technical specification of the Ebony A3 unit, with particularly low noise and distortion, and wide frequency response.
Features:
- Discrete Class A and Tube Mono Channel Strip
- Quality discrete class A preamp
- DI input for high/low impedence instrument input
- Phantom Power
- 30dB Pad
- 90Hz High Pass Filter
- Phase Reverse
- Switchable tube stage with rotary drive control
- Insert send and return point for attaching additional equipment
- Direct output for short path audio via insert send.
- 3 band EQ with swept mid
- Compressor section with variable ratio, threshold, attack, release, knee and gain make up.
- EQ switchable pre and post compression stage
- Analogue style VU metering for level/gain reduction
- +10dB metering for use with DAW
- Compatible with DO-2 card for SPDIF digital output
