A Studio Must-have
Crane Song's Titan is a hardware compressor-limiter that not only does a superb job of transparently controlling dynamic range but also offers a broad palette of tasty coloration options. A digitally controlled analog feedback compressor with two types of VCAs (plus a crossfade), Titan equips your studio with a huge spectrum of color and control choices. Use the crossfade to blend between squeaky-clean and ultra-coloration. Titan's stepped controls and color LCD screen let you easily recall your settings from previous sessions. For a definitive hardware compressor with serious coloration mojo, Crane Song's Titan certainly deserves your consideration.
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VCA Color
Titan gives you all the controls you'd expect in a high-end hardware compressor, plus onboard controls you won't find on any other compressor. VCA Color lets you dial between a very clean pulse-width modulation gain control device and a vintage gain control element, letting you precisely dial in the amount of "character" in your signal.
Parallel Mix
Titan's Parallel Mix function provides parallel compression, letting you blend your unprocessed and compressed audio. Titan's crossfade-mix control offers 16 steps for a broad range of options. Crane Song has smartly included parallel processing, which has become exceedingly popular among engineers at Sweetwater as a powerful way to shape your signal.
Dynamic Color and more
Titan's Dynamic Color feature generates harmonic content of the opposite nature to that produced by vintage gain control, imparting mass to the signal. With 16 steps giving you a wide range of sonic control, you can think of Dynamic Color as your "Big" control. Working along similar lines, Titan's Fat/Air switch lets you further enhance your sound with palpable girth or a delicate sense of space. Boasting stunning sonics, durable build quality, and boatloads of control, Crane Song's Titan is an amazing value in a top-shelf studio hardware compressor-limiter.
Crane Song Titan Features:
- A superb hardware compressor-limiter with a broad palette of coloration options
- VCA Color lets you dial between a clean PWM gain and character-laden vintage gain
- Intuitive color LCD keeps you informed
- Parallel Mix lets you blend between your unprocessed and compressed audio
- Dynamic Color imparts mass to your signal
- Fat/Air switch enhances your sound with palpable girth or a delicate sense of space
- Hard bypass, stereo link function
