SPL Introduces New Channel One Mk3 and Track One Mk3 Recording Units

German company SPL used the Tonmeistertagung 2023 (tmt32) conference and exhibition in Düsseldorf to present new products in its professional recording series. This time, SPL introduced its next generation of channel strips, the Channel One Mk3 and the Track One Mk3. Both are updates to the SPL Studio Series, combining a complete source preamplifier and mixing channel strip with analog dynamics processing, improved and optimized for the needs of modern recording studios.

Drawmer announced a new analog channel strip unit, directly targeted at home and project studios looking to add vintage characteristics and analog warmth to their productions. Offering all the features required for a single, comprehensive channel strip, the Drawmer 1977 combines an ultra clean preamplifier and a three band parametric equalizer with the silkiness of the soft knee compressor, and 3 types of variable harmonic saturation.

Rupert Neve Designs announced a powerful channel strip for modern studios looking to benefit from the company's legendary circuits. The new Newton Channel is a 1U rack unit with an intuitive design that delivers all the instantly-recognizable character, and musical tone-shaping abilities, that define a Rupert Neve Designs product. Equally well-suited for a project studio, voiceover setup, large-scale commercial facility or even for live sound.

Plugin Alliance announced availability of the new Lindell Audio 50 Series software plugin, that transforms Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) into an analog mixing console by capturing the legendary sound of original API circuits as a dual console channel strip and bus path. The software plugin was created using the patented Tolerance Modeling Technology (TMT) licensed from Brainworx, creating what Plugin Alliance describes as "the most convincing model of these classic consoles to date."

Waves Audio is celebrating its 25th anniversary, an occasion that also marks the advent of the digital plugin itself — a concept that has revolutionized every corner of audio production over the last quarter-century. In honor of those 25 years, Waves is shipping revamped and reskinned versions of three of its classic plugins: the Q10 Equalizer, the AudioTrack channel strip plugin and the L1 Ultramaximizer level maximizer/peak limiter.

Everyone else’s doing it, so why shouldn’t an historic brand like dbx do it as well? With the new model 676 Tube Mic Pre Channel Strip, HARMAN’s dbx offers a Class A vacuum tube-based microphone preamplifier combined with its classic compressor/limiter designs and dynamics processing in a vintage-style solution.