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Elysia Mpressor At MusikMesse - Guided Tour

April 03, 2007

Getting a tour of the insides of an audio processing box is very much like being invited into someone's home. Check out this video from the Elysia booth at MusikMesse 2007 where the engineers from Elysia pop the top on their newest unit - the Mpressor. The Mpressor is a creative audio processing device utilizing compression circuit design as a starting point leading to something otherworldly. The fine fellows at Elysia take Gearwire's camera on a tour of the crib, and you're invited. Just don't track dirt all over the main PCB, wipe off your feet first.

Get more information about the Elysia Mpressor at the official Elysia website

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REUBEN DAVIES: Hello. My name is Reuben, and I'm the developer of this Mpressor, and we have a look of things out of this box, and as you can see it here, it's same as the Alpha. Everything is discrete. Single transistors over here, and what we can see here is a piece of B board for the control voltage. So, I created a rectifier and [INDISCERNIBLE] take you all single transistor arrays. This aluminium will be heated up by this transistor to keep all the temperatures stable, so the parameters that will run away. And all the cards are always the same so the audio quality of the left and right channel will be always the same, which is very important for a good audio unit.

On the back side, we see the power supply. It looks very high quality [INDISCERNIBLE] with a discrete regulated power supply, big [SOUNDS LIKE] total transformer, input filtering for the AC voltage. And then, when we have a look at the front panel, you see that we have an awesome additional feature of possibility which is you have a compressor that has negative ratios. That means that a loud signal could go much lower than the original is, and with that together with the maximum reduction function as the [SOUNDS LIKE] Alpha, you can create so crazy effects that you can never hear from any other compressor. And also, another really cool feature is the external sidechain input, so we can put an external input and so the compressor reacts to the external input and you can do things like real ducking or groove compression and everything, and it makes really a lot of fun to play with this unit to create new sounds, groovy sounds, and yeah that's what you expect from a really new innovative compressor from Elysia.

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