{"id":3026,"date":"2020-10-12T13:31:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T18:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/?p=3026"},"modified":"2020-10-22T13:33:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T18:33:47","slug":"announcing-a-hidden-sixth-colour-within-solid-state-logics-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/12\/announcing-a-hidden-sixth-colour-within-solid-state-logics-fusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing a \u2018hidden Sixth Colour\u2019 within Solid State Logic\u2019s Fusion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oxford, UK \u2014\u00a0Just two years after its launch at AES in 2018, Solid State Logic\u2019s Fusion outboard processor has become an indispensable tool for the modern hybrid studio. With an incredibly versatile set of features for tracking, mixing and mastering, Fusion introduced five distinct colours to help users realize the perfect combination of added tonal character, weight and space to stereo stems \u2014\u00a0with the detail, warmth and finesse that only real analogue circuits can provide. Now, SSL unveils a sixth colour, already present in Fusion: a full-band LMC processor with wet\/dry control. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cPart of the mystique within SSL\u2019s music creation tools is how they give back over time.\u201d commented Andy Jackson, Studio Product Manager of Solid State Logic \u201cDuring the development of FUSION, we experimented and trailed many variants of the five analogue circuits. One variant of particular interest was an alternative mode for the HF Compressor section, making it operate across the full audio spectrum. As the design of the HF Compressor section was based on the legendary SSL Listen Mic Compressor circuit, it came as no surprise that this alternative mode sounded damn cool. Two years on, it’s finally time to reveal this special audio treat to our FUSION family, giving everyone a sixth “secret” colour to get creative with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Image left – Andy Jackson, Product Manager collecting NAMM TEC award for Fusion winning \u2018Signal Processing Hardware\u2019 category at 2020 ceremony.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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By pushing and holding the HF Compressor button on Fusion\u2019s front panel for five seconds, users can unlock \u2018full band LMC mode\u2019. When in LMC mode, the X-OVER knob turns into a \u2018Wet\/Dry\u2019 control \u2014\u00a0providing the ultimate LMC processing with parallel control. This feature already exists in all Fusion units, no update required.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The SSL Listen Mic Compressor \u2014 whose origins derive from the famed SSL 4000 series consoles \u2014 was a \u2018secret weapon\u2019 among producers and many say was the catalyst for that 80\u2019s drum sound, which prominently features on tracks of the era, including the classic \u2018In The Air Tonight\u2019 by Phil Collins. Originally designed to prevent overloading the return feed from a studio communications mic, the LMC\u2019s fixed attack and release curves were soon discovered to be eminently suitable on drums, and equally interesting on guitars, vocals and many other instruments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Fusion’s 6th colour facts<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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  • Available on ALL Fusion stereo analogue processors<\/li>\n
  • Full band LMC processor<\/li>\n
  • Classic LMC fixed attack and release times<\/li>\n
  • X-Over switches to wet\/dry mix control<\/li>\n
  • You can now smash everything<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    Oxford, UK \u2014\u00a0Just two years after its launch at AES in 2018, Solid State Logic\u2019s Fusion outboard processor has become an indispensable tool for the modern hybrid studio. With an incredibly versatile set of features for tracking, mixing and mastering, Fusion introduced five distinct colours to help users realize the perfect combination of added tonal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Fusion_6th_colour_header_banner_2400_wide.63247d6e4e1f432581eb4e32c804d18c.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}