Unlock The Power Of The Matrix
ANALOG SUM & DIFFERENCE CONTROL FOR YOUR MIXING OR MASTERING RIG
The Dangerous Music S&M mid-side processing matrix is revered in the mixing and mastering community. Insert your favorite outboard, split your stereo into Mid and Sides and get to work. Juice up the overall top end then de-ess that vocal without destroying the ethereal shimmer on the sides. Take your ‘perfect’ drum sound from a stereo pair of overheads, where the snare is too loud and resolve it in seconds with a limiter on the Sum channel. Peel back the mung from the bass so it punches hard, without choking the guitars or synths. Deploy it classically or experimentally as a most potent creation tool.
We say it isn’t over, even after it’s over. The Dangerous S&M separates any stereo track into a center and side matrix yielding previously unattainable control over the entire stereo field.
FEATURES
Unprecedented control of your mixes
Separately process the center & the sides of stereo pairs
Powerful stereo image width control
Insert Loop for Analog Outboard Processing
100% Analog Signal Path
Incredibly Clean and Quiet
Repeatable controls
Dangerous Music S&M with BAX EQ, COMPRESSOR and LIAISON
The Dangerous Music S&M is an analog sum and difference (mid-side) processor designed to allow engineers unprecedented control over their stereo information. The potential of what the S&M can do is only limited by one’s outboard collection and imagination. The avenues for crafting sound through inserting compression, limiting, EQ, de-essing and other types of processing are virtually endless.
Mastering engineers will enjoy the fact that S&M allows them to save seemingly unsalvageable tracks by altering vocal levels without remixing, by fixing overly wide or narrow stereo fields, or by de-essing aggressive cymbals while leaving the center of the mix untouched.
The mixing engineer can use the Dangerous Music S&M to extract the snare drum from a washy overhead pair, enhance the width of anemic stereo synths, or custom design the stereo image of the mix without altering the tonal content.
Other fun and useful things to do in the mix room include aggressively limiting the center of a drum overhead pair while leaving the sides open and sparkling, without collapsing the width of the image… or how about running some reverb and effects returns through S&M and opening up the width control? In surround widening the rear channels creates impressive soundstage and depth, all done with cutting edge analog circuitry and without trickery.
Assembled by hand using the highest quality components and a no-compromise attitude the Dangerous Music S&M is the missing stereo link for any serious mixing or mastering engineer.
SPECS
Frequency Response Flat within 0.1dB from 1Hz -100kHz
THD + NOISE <0.002%
IMD60 4:1 <0.002%
Sum and Minus channel separation -78dB
Width control accuracy 0.02dBu
Dynamic Range 108dB
Nominal operating level +4dBu
Maximum Input Level +23dBu
Input Impedance 25K Ohms Balanced
Output Impedance 50 Ohms Balanced
Replacement Fuses:
AMERICAS 90-120VAC 2 Amp Slo-Blo fuse
EUROPE 200-260VAC 1 Amp Slo-Blo fuse
Warranty: Free 2 year extended warranty with online registration.
Standard Warranty: 90 days parts and labor, subject to inspection. Does not include damage incurred through abusive operation or modifications/attempted repair by unauthorized technicians.