Who-Dat DIY

I am pumped for Saints football season... and I am such a gearhead it's kind of ridiculous. So I thought it would be best to combine both worlds in my latest piece of home-brew DIY recording gear. I introduce the "Black and Gold" G4000 VCA. It's a stereo VCA compressor based on the quad compressor in an SSL Series 4000 console. This one has a couple unique features. It has a 5 position selectable sidechain HPF (err... High-Pass Filter) and a 10 segment gain reduction LED meter, with a selectable range of either -10dB (1 dB/LED) or -20dB (2dB/LED). It uses gold can DBX 202C VCAs. The gold cans originally sparked the little Who-Dats in my brain to do something with a Saints theme.

I finished it just in time for football season... and it sounds wonderful. I used it this past weekend during the Haarp sessions at Truck Farm (more to come on that).

Go Saints !!!

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