Lindell Audio proclaims LiNTEC Vintage Program Equalizer as tackle studio traditional with classic workflow for making fashionable sounds

Boutique recording gear maker Lindell Audio is proud to introduce its LiNTEC Vintage Program Equalizer — enabling its tackle a much-lauded studio traditional with classic workflow for making fashionable sounds, breaking with custom by selecting a solid-state design over a tube-driven one — as of March 7…

By bringing a much-lauded studio traditional — conceivably probably the most famend studio EQ ever recognized — house to smaller studio setups and bigger recording studios alike, anybody can now get hands-on with traditional Pultec-style workflow when sculpting their tracks, due to Lindell Audio’s well timed LiNTEC introduction. Indeed, it’s billed as being a Vintage Program Equalizer, as emphasised by the on level wording boldly blazoned under the VU (Volume Unit) meter dominating its lovely blue entrance panel that, in flip, emphasises Lindell Audio’s Scandinavian heritage, courtesy of delicate entrance panel positioning of an tailored Swedish flag motif. Attractive as it’s to have a look at, alluding — albeit making use of a ‘fashionable’ minimalist Scandi contact — to the time-honoured aesthetics of the Sixties-vintage, prohibitively-expensive Program Equalizer from which it attracts its inspiration, it’s what it feels like — making its musical mark by bringing air and area to vocals and stringed devices, beefing up the low-end of kick drums, or including a contact of heat and weight to a complete bus — that clearly counts. It is honest to say, although, that anybody operating their tracks by means of a LiNTEC will surprise how they bought by with utilizing software program EQs for therefore lengthy!

LiNTEC’s lean, old-school design affords a shared (five-step switched 20, 30, 60, 100, and 150 Hz) LOW FREQ (frequency) choice management for the related BOOST and ATTEN (attenuation), alongside unbiased (11-step switched 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 14, and 16 okHz) HIGH FREQ and (five-step switched 4, 8, 12, 16, and 20 okHz) ATTEN picks with a shared BANDWIDTH management. As a consequence, customers can dial within the exact quantity of tone-sculpting essential to serve their monitor with no threat of muddying up the midrange. Moreover, LiNTEC’s stepped pots guarantee simple recall and stereo matching when utilized in a stereo pair, whereas its filters are based mostly on traditional EQP-1A filters, complimented by Lindell Audio’s personal new acquire construction.

Speaking of decisions, Lindell Audio broke with custom by selecting a solid-state design over a tube-driven one. On report as professing its love for tubes as a lot as the subsequent producer, solid-state provided myriad advantages for LiNTEC that would not be had with tubes, corresponding to a sooner transient response with a easy, creamy, and punchy character; decrease noise than tube-based EQs; higher unit-to-unit matching for stereo pairing — matched by hand to inside 1⁄4 dB of one another; and, clearly, no tubes to wear down and substitute.

Turning to the op-amp utilized to the LiNTEC design, it’s the identical confirmed OPA-171 — Lindell Audio’s tackle the traditional classic Melcor 1731 op-amp — utilized in its 7X-500VIN ‘Vintage Edition’ 500-Series compressor and 77X-500 500-Series stereo compressor. Custom-designed transformers which might be additionally central to creating the LiNTEC Vintage Program Equalizer what it’s have been created particularly for Lindell Audio.

And, sure, Lindell Audio’s LiNTEC is completely able to pulling off the so-called Pultec low-end trick that has been used to fatten bass strains and kick drums on innumerable recordings; merely select the specified LOW FREQ setting — attempt beginning at 100 Hz, then concurrently flip up each the related BOOST and ATTEN controls to style. As a historic facet be aware, it’s attention-grabbing to notice right here that unique Pultec documentation asserted — admittedly fairly bullishly, “Do not try to spice up and attenuate concurrently on the low frequencies.” Is it any surprise, then, that eager-to-know-why engineers did simply that! The results of this simultaneous enhance/lower operation is a low-end enhance under the chosen frequency, with a lower barely above the chosen frequency; in flip, this ends in a satisfying-sounding thump and physique that doesn’t threat muddying the midrange — a not-so-secret trick of engineers and producers ever since these eager-to-know-why engineers first tried ignoring what they have been informed! Try doing that ‘for actual’ with software program EQs.

Electronics evidently has quite a bit to reply for, and by bringing the much-lauded studio traditional house to smaller studio setups and larger studios alike, anybody can now get hands-on with traditional Pultec-style workflow when sculpting their tracks for lots lower than the value of different traditional {hardware} EQs, due to Lindell Audio’s LiNTEC.

Last, however under no circumstances least, the LiNTEC Vintage Program Equalizer can also be helpful for including a contact of heat and harmonic content material to program materials — even with its EQ set flat!

As a RAD Distribution firm, Lindell Audio’s LiNTEC Vintage Program Equalizer is anticipated to ship in late-March/early-April 2024 with an MAP (Minimum Advertised Price) of $399.00 USD — RAD Distribution can also be the unique North American distributor

For Lindell Audio merchandise (https://raddist.com/en/manufacturers/lindell-audio) — and an SSP (Standalone Selling Price) of €532.00 EUR — together with 19% VAT (Value Added Tax) — within the EU (European Union).