![]() There’s a slight shrinking of the stereo image with both units, which helps to propel the track forward a little more, pushing the main, central parts – the kick, snare, bass and vocal – out, and giving the track a radio-ready vibe. Overall, the Crème did sound a touch more hi-fi and less edgy. If anything, our SSL-style compressor was a little more aggressive with transients and more pronounced around the 800-1000Hz range, but there wasn’t much in it, and any difference could easily have been due to tiny differences in the amount of gain reduction taking place. Neither unit colours the sound by very much, both pushing the midrange slightly and providing a similar sense of ‘glue’ to the overall mix. Both units have similar options for attack, release and ratio (the Crème has an additional 1.5 ratio that our compressor does not) and only really differ when it comes to the sidechain – the Crème only providing low-cut options at 60 and 120Hz, compared to the four high-pass filters and two shelving options on the GSSL bus compressor.Īs we were using the 90Hz option initially, we opted to go with the 60Hz setting on the Crème and adjust the other to match it and then finally dialled in the threshold and make-up gain by ear, to get as close as we could to the same.Ĭomparing the two revealed a striking similarity. As an initial test, we set the Crème up on an existing rock mix that already had our custom SSL-style compressor (one of many DIY compressors, based on the Gyraf Audio SSL 4000 compressor circuit) across the bus, and attempting to match the two compressors. We installed the Crème in our rack and set to work running mixes through it. ![]() ![]() Once we’d got over the quality of the packaging, it was time to get excited about the product itself. It pretty much demands you find a use for it, even if it’s just as a store for cables, mics, or perhaps guitar pedals. Such is the unique beauty of the chest, that it would feel absurd to throw it out once the unit was racked up. We wouldn’t have been surprised to have found a hoard of doubloons inside, replacing packing peanuts. The Crème arrived packed inside a wooden chest. But none of this is good enough for Tegeler. The kind of thing you can quickly chuck out once you’ve racked the gear up, or store away if you think you might sell the device on in the near future. Most high-end audio equipment ships in large, well-lined cardboard boxes, with plenty of cut polystyrene holding it in place. By combining both a Pultec-style passive EQ, with a VCA compressor in a single 2U device, the Tegeler Crème is positioning itself as the perfect tool for mixbus processing. Whether it’s the exquisite shaping an EQ across the mix can bring, the steady glue of a compressor, or just the subtle saturation of analogue components, analogue processing can help to give your whole mix that pleasing sense of analogue mojo that is missing from so many modern mixes. There’s nothing quite like analogue mixbus processing to give you the edge when mixing. All controls on switches or notched potentiometers.Price €1,699 Contact Tegeler Audio Manufaktur Crème key features:
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