Crane Song TRAKKER

The Crane Song TRAKKER is a high quality single-channel discrete Class-A compressor limiter - and is one of the few high end Class A compressor-limiters out there that lets you choose from a wide variety of behaviors; ie, hard and soft knee (each with several different slopes), vintage, clean, optical, air optical, etc.

It functions either as a musically transparent compressor or as a vintage compressor - limiter with selectable hard or soft knee. It is a maximum-versatility toolkit for solving real-world recording, broadcast, and sound reinforcement problems with the utmost attention to signal quality and can create distinct new sounds or maximize existing ones.


Crane Song TRAKKER Features :

• Discrete Class-A Circuitry
• Balanced / Transformerless I/O
• Vintage Compressor Limiter Sounds
• Musically transparent - plus choices of amplifier/gain control compression behavior types
• Link up to Eight Units for Surround

Versatile Trakker
The Trakker has adjustable threshold, attack, release, knee shape, and makeup gain controls. In addition to these controls, a function switch allows the selection of transparent operation or vintage operations such as optical, air optical, soft knee, and hard knee - each with four different amplifier/gain control sounds.
Amplifier gain control sounds are: Transparent, Vintage (tube or old style Class A), Transparent with VCA artifacts, and Vintage with VCA artifacts. Whether you're using the Trakker for tracking, mixing, or surround, it'll impart its unique sonic fingerprint on the audio.



Link Eight Units for Surround Mixing
As surround becomes more and more prevalent, the need of studios to be equipped to handle surround becomes increasingly more important. You can link up to eight Trakkers together to handle up to eight discrete channels of audio for 7.1 mixing.