Sound Performance Lab – Transient Designer 4

Transient Designer 4
Model 9842

In Short

A world’s first from SPL

The Transient Designer offers a completely new technology for level-independent shaping of the dynamic response of a sound: For the first time it is possible to control the attack and sustain behaviour of a signal in a very simple way! Unlike other dynamic devices, the processing is not goverened by the signal level but rather by its dynamic envelope, so all signals (loud and soft) are processed the same way.

With no effort you can shorten or lengthen the attack and sustain of all kinds of percussive signals, such as the bass drum, snares, toms, congas etc. to let them jump into your face or to flatten the signals. Booming toms for example are dried up in seconds — it’s almost like being able to change the amount of drum damping after the recording. Your idea of a kick drum sound is a kick drum in the words best sense? Just dial it in.

The same applies to virtually any other signal: Amplify or reduce the picking sound of an acoustic guitar, hold the sound of the strings longer, reduce the reverb time of a choir, actuate the piano pedal “electronically”, turn down the slap bass a notch or give it even more attack, etc.

In Detail

Quotes

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Ed Cherney

"I love my Transient Designer, I need more channels!" More ...

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Ross Hogarth

"" I am a huge Transient Designer fan and use it on every project I do ... nothing else does what it does." More ...

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Joe Chicarelli

"I've been using the SPL Transient Designer since the last century. The day I demoed the box was the day I purchased it. It is truly one of the most unique pieces of gear any mixer can have." More ...

Michael Brauer

Michael Brauer’s statement on the Transient Designer is an excerpt of his article in the “producer’s corner” of VintageKing.com, issue June 2005.

“It's an important tool that has helped me out of a jam on many a mix. I don't know how they did it but they should have won the Nobel peace prize for the peace of mind it gives me after transforming a roomy BD into a close mic'd tight sound without any of the tricky phasing stuff going on. It's a total mystery how that works, It also works in the reverse, meaning it puts verb into a sound that is too tight and close mic'd. Great tool.”

Benjy King