Game-Changing Digitally Controlled Analog Automation System
WesAudio designed their ngLEVELER 16-channel analog automation system to be a studio hub with innovative features and simple analog connectivity that make it a game-changer for many applications. In addition to its automation engine, it also provides variable analog saturation per-channel, for more presence and punch in your mixes. The first thing you’ll notice is that the ngLEVELER doesn’t have any physical controls — you have total control via its dedicated DAW plug-in, HUI control, or both.
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Streamline and supercharge your workflow
The myriad of ways you can deploy the ngLEVELER will change the way you do business by streamlining and supercharging your studio workflows. The ngLEVELER’s passive pads work wonders between preamp output and A/D converters to manage signal going into your DAW, particularly with high-level preamplifiers that can output a very hot signal. You can use it as an automation system for analog console insert points. The ngLEVELER’s vintage-style processor lets you weak your signal level into the sweet spot and back it off before hitting the converter. The unit is also brilliant as an automation system for any analog summing stage. Or you can use it for post-compression automation, which solves a very common mixing problem. As an analog processor driver, the ngLEVELER also implements channel-linking improvements, as it can be used to drive analog processor units with different signals.
100% analog, full digital control
WesAudio, a company masterminded by Radoslaw Wesolowski and headquartered in Poland, spearheaded an initiative they call “ng,” which stands for next-generation. The company’s first ng products were designed around 500 Series modules with a special connector that mates with receiver connectors in the company’s _TITAN NG500 Recall chassis. On its rear panel, the _TITAN is fitted with a USB jack for connection to your computer, as well as Ethernet for networked setups. All ng500-compatible modules in the rack are able to communicate with your computer via a single data cable.
Now, the ng program has been extended to 19" rack equipment like the ngLEVELER. The gear — both 500 Series and rackmount — includes free downloadable software that appears in your DAW session as a standard plug-in and lets you control your analog hardware with software precision. Every setting and automation move is saved along with your DAW session file. How cool is that? Engineers at Sweetwater are deeply into the concept: an elegant marriage of hardware and software, designed for modern hybrid analog/digital workflows.
WesAudio ngLEVELER 16-channel Analog Automation System Features:
- 16 channels of analog automation with total recall and 24dBu of headroom
- 6dB passive attenuator (Pad) for better integration with high level signals
- Very low noise and distortion: THD+N < 0.01%
- Mute and Solo for each channel
- Proprietary THD implementation
- In and Out (before and after signal leveling) metering fully integrated with DAW plug-in
- Flexible DAW/Live plug-in control for instant recall
- DB-25 analog connectivity
- Management via Ethernet or USB
- Supports advanced plug-in for all DAW formats (VST2/VST3/AU/AAX)
- Fully compatible with HUI
