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I\u2019ve always tried to make Little Labs products original creations. Making another compressor made no sense to me; there are so many compressors out there, and most are knock-offs of the classics. They all used FET, Opto-Cell, VCA, or Vari-Mu design. Little Labs wanted something genuinely new and original.<\/p>\n

When I met Dave Amels in the mid-2000s, I had known him as the Bomb factory guy who did all the math to make some of the first popular audio Plugins. I know he put a considerable effort into the math to emulate some of these vintage devices; the math involved is incredibly complex.<\/p>\n

But later, which I think was absolutely brilliant and very misunderstood, Dave took the same math and using devices called linear analog multipliers; he put this math to work again. Not for plugins but for making analog computers, actual hardware using this modern component to recreate these vintage devices with all their odd non-linear anomalies but using this state-of-the-art component. It\u2019s a bit like the movie the FLY, where Jeff Goldblum\u2019s machine is creating a synthetic version of the object rather than the object itself.<\/p>\n

But what piqued my interest was not to recreate a vintage device but to create a state-of-the-art gain reduction element using this AD633ARZ four\u2011quadrant analog multiplier that reacted smoother than anything out there. Dave Amels, the mathematical genius, made it happen, and I am truly grateful. This new technique allowed Little Labs to birth a new original compressor.<\/p>\n

Using a single AD633ARZ in the audio path and the same output driver I use on the Little Labs Monotor, I believe Little Labs had made the shortest audio circuit path compressor ever. Some say the LL2A sounds like you\u2019re just riding a fader, and that\u2019s true, but you can\u2019t ride a fader that fast!<\/p>\n

LL2A FEATURES INCLUDE
\nTwo-knob fast setup, with high quality stepped, resettable threshold and gain controls.<\/p>\n

Fast 400-microsecond attack, 0.9 second release soft knee compression. Also,
\na 2400-microsecond attack, 4.9 second release for bass, available in stand-alone mode.<\/p>\n

Minimalist zen differential circuit topology utilizing only two active components in the audio signal circuit path.<\/p>\n

Unique linear voltage multiplier gain reduction, a voltage-controlled attenuation (not amplification) unlike any other commercially available compressor.<\/p>\n

True VU ballistic, accurate, fun neon Nixie tube metering.<\/p>\n

Internal state of the art super low noise linear voltage regulation, providing full current\/ voltage for active audio components and a 1MHz low noise high voltage supply for the Nixie tube.<\/p>\n

Linkable for two LL2A compressor stereo balanced use, or a single LL2A can be used for unbalanced stereo!<\/p>\n

Rear panel TRS balanced side chain insert, TS link jack, XLR and TRS balanced mono i\/o jacks, stereo unbalanced use TRS (tip-left, ring-right), or XLR pin 2-left pin 3-right.<\/p>\n

Rack-mountable: Up to 2 LL2A compressor limiters fit in a 1u space.<\/p>\n

Made in California, USA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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