Mighty Midgets 
by don Bono from San Diego, CA, May 2007
Music Background:  Artist, Producer, Mix and Mastering Engineer.

I bought these units and waited a month faithfully for them to ship. When i got them i took them home and fired them up. One of the capacitors had blown out so that left me with one unit when put in bypass mode to still control the gain knob. However after talking to summit audios Product Chief he was a big help and took the untils back and fixed them both and turned them right around within a week. Summit Audio has great customer service

Now on use these things to me are noisey a lot more than i would expect from a unit at this cost i have some other stuff that produce far less noise. But after a few test i was able to get the floor noise down substantially something i can bare with. BUT THE WARM out of these THings and Compression is Nice, NO pumping effect even when driven fairly hard on a full mix i heardly heard the compression. They added a nice effect the vocals and other instruments seemed to sit nicely together. Whoever said that big things can't come in small packages, Yes these are no TLA 100 or Vari-mu but its a nice start for someone trying to add a nice tube sound on a budget. Outside of the them being a little noisey I am satisfied with the investment and these have a home in my Studio for a while to come. Of course They will take backseat to my Manley Vari-mu.

  Great Limiter with a warm, round tone 
by from Chicago, IL, April 2007
Music Background:  Project Studio Owner, Musician

The TLA-50 is a great little limiter for the money, and while it doesn't work on all sources it does sound great on guitars, kick, male vox, bass, and synth leads. Use it where you need to control dynamics while adding a little tube character.

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