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The backbone of your mastering rig!

Dangerous Music's Master brings the amazing analog sound and functionality of previous Dangerous boxes to the mastering world with a truly unique approach that will give your projects an edge over your competitors. Three insert points are front-panel switchable for integrating external analog processing and there's something special lurking behind the "S&M Width" knob. With the S&M button depressed, Master engages a "Sum or Minus" mode that lets you control the stereo spread and much more. Every mastering engineer that incorporates outboard gear into their rig needs a Master!



Dangerous Music Master at a Glance:

• Powerful processing at your fingertips
  
• Controls

Powerful processing at your fingertips
There's truly nothing quite like Master. The S&M functionality adds a remarkable element to your mastering arsenal. Imagine being able to modify the frequency content of the program material residing in the left/right aspects of the stereo field without changing the spectrum of the center material. With Master, you can. Hit the S&M button, activate insert #2 with a stereo EQ connected, and you can work wonders with the sound. Say the vocals (panned center) sound fine in the mix, but you'd like to brighten the guitars and cymbals a bit (which reside in the left and right panning positions). S&M lets you remove the center material temporarily so you can process the extreme left and right signals without coloring the center material. The S&M Width knob can also let you modify the width of the overall stereo field. How's that for having flexibility!

Controls
From left to right, you've got L/R Level controls, three buttons that trigger the insertion of outboard gear in the signal path, a button that individually selects which inputs are being processed, a button that triggers Stereo or Middle Sides mode on insert 2, and a button that selects whether the Monitor Output jacks have the Input or Output signal sent to the monitor section. Next up is the Input Monitor Offset. This is very handy to match the input and output levels to listen to the effect of processing without the level difference clouding one's judgment. The engineer can also match input and output level, look down at the scale, and determine the relative gain obtained from the mastering process. This control has a scale of -2 to +8dB in 0.5 dB steps. The S&M Width was covered in depth in the previous paragraph. Lastly, the Output level control dictates the final level that passed on to the A/D convertor.

Dangerous Music Master Features:

• The centerpiece of your mastering rig.
  
• Dangerous has an unparalleled legacy of designing custom gear for top engineers and premier facilities around the world.
  
• Equip your mastering room with the same gear used on platinum hits.
  
• Transparent, yet musical signal path will translate across every playback system.
  
• Flexible gain-staging for accurate before and after comparisons.
  
• M/S processing for tricks like compressing the center (vocals, bass, snare, kick) and not collapsing the stereo image.
  
• Expandable by adding the Liaison (not included).
  
• All connections are Balanced XLR, +4dBu nominal operating level
  
• 2 stereo inputs
  
• 3 stereo outputs (one for monitoring)
  
• 3 insert loops
  
• 2nd insert capable of MS matrix operation
  
• Input and Output controls: +/ - 5dB in 0.5dB steps
  
• Input Monitor Offset: -2 to +8dB in 0.5dB steps
  
• Width control: -4 to +6dB in 0.5dB steps
  
• Frequency response: Better than 0.2dB down @ 1Hz and 100kHz
  
• Noise floor: < -89dBu total energy in the audio band

Every mastering house needs to get Dangerous with Master!

Specification Detail Type Analog Channels 2 Inputs - Mic Preamps No Mic Inputs Inputs - Line 4 x XLR Inputs - Other No Other Inputs Outputs - Main 2 x XLR (Main 1), 2 x XLR (Main 2), 2 x XLR (Monitor) Outputs - Direct No Direct Outputs Outputs - Other No Other Outputs Headphones No Headphone Outputs Send/Return I/O 6 x XLR (Send), 6 x XLR (Return) Phantom Power No Phantom Power EQ Bands No EQ Aux Sends No Aux Sends Busses/Groups No Bus or Groups Faders No Faders Channel Inserts No Channel Inserts Effects No Effects Talkback No Talkback Computer Connectivity No Computer Connectivity Rackmountable Yes Manufacturer Part Number MASTER

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