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SUMMIT AUDIO INTRODUCES NEW TLA-50 TUBE LEVELING
AMPLIFIER FOR STUDIO AND LIVE SOUND APPLICATIONS AT AES 2001
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Provides Signal Compression without Sacrificing Warmth, at an
Affordable Price
NEW YORK, Nov. 30, 2001—Summit Audio introduces the
TLA-50 Tube Leveling Amplifier, which will be on display at the
AES Convention, Booth 818. Designed for studio and live sound applications,
the TLA-50 offers smaller digital studios a processing section that
adds warmth to a signal while providing a distinctly musical compression.
In addition, the TLA-50, which has a three-year warranty, offers
the great sound of Summit’s TLA-100A at a price attractive
to everyone.
The TLA-50 is a half-rack space powerhouse compressor based on
Summit Audio’s classic tube circuitry. The input stage employs
a 12AX7A/ECC83 vacuum tube to deliver, into every audio application,
the sound only high-end facilities have enjoyed in the past. This
full-featured leveling amplifier offers three-position attack and
release switches, continuously variable gain and gain reduction
control, and provides highly-accurate VU metering of output and
gain reduction for precise visual tailoring of the audio signal.
The TLA-50 features a side chain insert for flexible use.
The output stage is a discrete component transistor circuit optimized
for smooth and quiet response utilizing plus and minus 24-volt rails
from the internal high-voltage power supply. Discrete circuits do
not saddle the audio signal with the degradation and coloration
of a transformer-coupled circuit as found in other products. The
unit also offers linking with another TLA-50 for outstanding stereo
compression capabilities.
“We designed the TLA-50 to function with -10 dB or +4 dB inputs
and outputs, so the TLA-50 automatically becomes a great-sounding,
level-matching device for any application,” says Erik Papp
of Summit Audio. “It even has a bypass switch that still passes
the audio through the tube-driven input stage, yielding that great
sound only a tube can provide, without the compression. In every
way, the TLA-50 gives that smooth, signature sound that says Summit
Audio to the listener, and that literally means the best sound in
the industry is now available to everyone.”
Established in 1979, Summit Audio manufactures tube equipment
for the recording, post-production, broadcast and live sound industries.
In addition to its full line of popular, vacuum-tube-based, high-end
equipment, Summit Audio manufactures the award-winning Element 78
line of solid state signal processing units.
Setting it apart from the rest, all Summit products are handcrafted
in its own manufacturing facility in Watsonville, CA. Each unit
is rigorously tested on Audio Precision test equipment and each
product undergoes constant quality upgrades. Summit Audio products
are used throughout the world from home studios to such top recording
studios as Capitol Records, The Hit Factory, Skywalker Sound and
Effanel Music, Inc.
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