Focusrite Platinum Series: Focusrite Teaches Us Some History

October 10, 2008
Focusrite Platinum Series

The point behind the Focusrite Platinum Series is to bring the Neve-ian high bandwidth theory to an affordable range of mic pres. Even though nobody can hear anything remotely near 200 kHz, there's still stuff going on in that range that effects the things you can hear.

It's like ghosts. Even though I can't see them, they're still stealing my keys and throwing them in the bushes outside my house when I'm drunk.

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FOCUSRITE REPRESENTATIVE: So we're back into the history of Focusrite, a company that's been around since 1985 mainly making mic pres.

Okay, so the Platinum Range. The Platinum Range was Focusrite's way of trying to bring the magic of Focusrite in terms of mic pres and compression from the Red Series and the ISA Series to a price point that people in project studios could afford. There are a host of different solutions in here, different channel strips, multiple mic pre solutions, compressors, and they do their best to maintain their high wide bandwidth philosophy that Focusrite maintains which is the idea that from 20 Hz up to 200 kHz, there's this going on. Now, we can only hear from 20 Hz to 23 kHz if we're very gifted but the reason we take that wide bandwidth from 20 to 200 is because there's things going up there, this is a theory that Rupert Neve had right from the beginning, there's things going on outside of the audible range that affect things going on inside, and what it helps you to do is get a very flat response in the audible range. So, the Platinum Series takes that same philosophy but uses custom components to bring the price down so that people in the average project studio can have that Focusrite sound.

Channel strips, mic pres, compressor/limiters, multi-channel mic pres, the Platinum Range provides just about any solution a project studio would require at a price they can afford. That's the Platinum Range.

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