Drawmer MX50 Dual-Channel De-Esser

MX50 Dual-Channel De-Esser description:

The Drawmer MX50 Dual-Channel De-Esser. Vocal De-Esser that reduces the level of sibilant sounds whilst leaving the remainder of the signal unchanged.

The Drawmer MX50 is a flexible, simple to set up dual De-Esser designed to fulfil the needs of the Recording Studio, Broadcast, Theatre and Live Sound Industries. Its classic application is to overcome the problems that can arise when sibilant sounds (S's and T's) are over-emphasised by the human voice, with such other applications as 'smoothing' a stereo mix, reducing string noise on acoustic guitars or breath noise on flutes, even refining cymbal and hi-hat sounds. Processing is achieved by adjusting just two control parameters, Frequency and De-Ess. The fully variable Frequency control operates from 800Hz to 8KHz encompassing the full sibilant range, including 'hard' sounding harmonics and other side-effects which can be generated when treble frequencies are boosted or enhanced. This is followed by the variable De-Ess which acts as a 'more' control giving up to 20dB of gain reduction at the selected frequency.

The main features of the Drawmer MX50 include:

• Fully variable frequency (800Hz to 8kHz) with a more De-Ess control
• Switchable ‘Air’ function retains above sibilance high frequency ‘gloss’ preserving upper harmonics
• Proprietary ‘Floating Threshold’ circuitry which auto-sets the level of incoming material, eliminating the need for a manual de-ess threshold
• Split Band operation - processes only signal frequencies above the set frequency level
• Full Band operation - reduces total signal level in response to the selected frequency band
• Switchable bypass
• Linking facility for stereo full range material
• Simultaneous balanced +4dB XLR and unbalanced -10dB Jack input/output connectors