The A-Designs NAIL is one of the most musical yet transparent compressors ever manufactured. Housing hand-selected tube circuitry and top-shelf components specifically chosen to best compliment and enrich the extended bandwidth of state of the art recording and mixing tools, the Nail is completely at home strapped across the main outs of hardware mixers or breathing analog warmth into DAW setups.
While it has the ability to add character to any sound, it can also control dynamics very subtly in the background; and, unlike most compressors, the NAIL can be hit really hard without having the top end dragged down.
Being able to switch from linked stereo to dual mono makes it a perfect tracking compressor as well; or, on a stereo mix, using dual mono with different settings on each side can have the effect of making the mix sound wider.
SPECIFICATIONS
- Solid state/tube hybrid design combines high performance with rich sound.
- Dual channel with switchable stereo link or dual mono modes.
- Mix control lets you blend wet/dry signal for parallel compression.
- Hard Threshold and Filter let you select amount of compression and frequency (to 250Hz) to prevent mix from being “dragged down” by LF energy.
- Awarded “Mix Certified Hit” by Mix magazine.
- Custom-milled aluminum knobs.
- Custom-milled aluminum faceplate.
- LED Indicators switchable to stereo.
- Gain-reduction switch for meters.
- 2U rackmount.
- Balanced XLR outputs.
- Carling toggle power switch.
- Red jewel power indicator.
- Frequency response: 3Hz – 50Khz • Noise: -89dbu
- Balanced Input: XLR
- Balanced Output: XLR
- Clipping: +20dbu
- Filter: Off – 8Hz (starting point) – 250Hz
- Channel Isolation @1kHz: 90dB
- Variable Ratio: Self adjusting
- Mix (direct/compression): Complete bypass to complete compression
- Power Requirements: 120/230VAC – 23 Watts
- Dimensions: 19” x 3-1/2” x 10” (W-H-D)
- Weight: 10 lbs.
- Shipping weight: 12 lbs.