Compressor / Gate

The Tube Tech SMC 2BM is a multi-band stereo compressor with stereo Sidechain inputs, tube-based discrete-stage optical compressors designed for mastering. When you mix your mixes through the SMC2BM, you get a vintage heat add-on that you can not do without. The SMC 2BM uses 6dB / octave croosovers and three independent stereo optical compressors to treat your sound with a multi-band compression that is both colorful and incredibly powerful.

ARTICLE N° 57574
  • Tech Tube SMC 2BM Multi-band stereo compressor with stereo Sidechain inputs, optical discrete-tube compressors designed for mastering.
  • The only compressor in the multi-band lamp market.
  • Three bands per channel with variable connection frequency between bands.
  • Optical compression.
  • Attack, return, threshold and ratio variables.
  • General output gain from off to +10 dB.
  • Band output gain from off to +10 dB.
  • Display of the compression on LED.
  • Bandwidth 5 Hz to 60 kHz (-3 dB).
  • Very low background noise: <60 dBu @ 10 dB gain.
  • Silent Bypass Relay.
  • Technical characteristics:
  • Input impedance: 2 kOhms.
  • Output Impedance: <60 Ohms.
  • Frequency response at -3 dB: 5 Hz to 50 kHz.
  • Distortion (THD + N at 40 Hz) at 0 dBU: 0.15%.
  • Distortion (THD + N at 40 Hz) at +10 dBU: 0.15%.
  • Distortion (THD + N at 40 Hz) at +26 dBU (max output level) <1%.
  • Distortion (THD + N at 40 Hz) at +21 dBU (max input level) <1%.
  • Noise (Rg = 200 Ohms), gain at 0 dB: +60 dB.
  • Noise (Rg = 200 Ohms), 22 Hz to 22 kHz at <-80 dBU: <-60 dBU.
  • Noise (Rg = 200 Ohms), CCIR-468-4 at <-70 dBU <-50 dBU.
  • Crosstalk at 10 kHz <-60 dB.
  • CMMR at 10 kHz <-60 dB.
  • Master Gain: Off to +10 dB.
  • Low / Mid / High Band Gain: Off to +10 dB.
  • Master Gain: Off to +10 dB.
  • Low / Mid / High band gain: Off to +10 dB.
  • Cutoff frequencies for Low / Mid bands: 60, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300 Hz and 240, 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1200 Hz.
  • Mid / High Band Cutoff Frequencies: 1.2, 2, 3.2, 4, 6 kHz.
  • Compression> ratio: from 2: 1 to 10: 1.
  • Compression> Threshold: Off to -20 dBU.
  • Compression> Attack: 3 to 200 ms.
  • Compression> release: from 60 ms to 2 s.
  • Lamps: 4 x ECC81, 1 x ECC82 and 1 x ECC83.
  • Dimensions (HxWxD): 88 x 483 x 205 mm.
  • Weight 5.3 kg.