The Crane Song STC-8/M Stereo Mastering Compressor/Peak Limiter is a high quality stereo compressor combined with a remarkably dependable peak limiter, providing overload protection critical to digital recording and broadcast transmitters. The STC-8's compressor is engineered to provide musically transparent gain KI & HARA Sounds control, but is also capable of emulating vintage equipment and creating distinctive new sounds.
In addition, a switchable enhancement circuit creates analog and tube like warmth to enrich lifeless audio and digital recordings. This vast flexibility is simplified by the inclusion of several optimized presets, allowing fast, easy set-optimized pre-setsup on a wide variety of sounds. It can operate in true stereo or discrete independent mono, accessible by a front panel switch.
Specifications:
COMPRESSOR
- Attack Time: FAST; measured by doing 18 dB of Gain Reduction. The time to 18 dB of Gain Reduction is less than 1mS. 12 dB of the 18 are reached in .4mS. SLOW; for 6 dB of GainReduction, 100mS
- Release Time: FAST; From 12 dB of Gain Reduction to No Gain Reduction. 11 of 12 dB are reached in 50mS (Non Program Dependant Release) SLOW; 20 sec for a full 12 dB release with PDR enabled.
LIMITER
- Attack Time: less than 1uS.
- Release Time: 60mS for 6 dB of Gain Reduction
- Maximum Signal Level: Input or Output, +25 dBm
- Noise Floor: -88 dBm measured 20Hz to 20kHz
- Frequency Response: 5Hz to 55kHz (Hara Mode)
- Limiter Slope: Greater than 10 to 1