Unless you're primarily an engineer, you're probably not going to get easily excited on dropping over a grand on a channel strip, but there is good reason that studios have racks and racks of these processors. It's because they make things sound better. Owen O'Malley demonstrates on the versatile...
The 2-LA-2 is not an exact component clone of the classic LA-2A, but a feature-enhanced stereo evolution of its ancestor that elegantly combines two channels of silky, tube-amplified, stereo matched optical gain reduction in one unit. Designed by original UREI engineer Dennis Fink, the 2-LA-2...