Pendulum Audio unveils the OCL-500 Compressor, a new single-space 500 series rack format compressor.
Since its introduction in 1998, the Pendulum OCL-2 Compressor/Limiter has become a modern classic. The new OCL-500 has the same compression circuit as the OCl-2, but uses a transformerless class A solid-state gain makeup circuit in place of the tube stage. The result is clean, transparent compression that can be used to shape the dynamics of any source while preserving its tone. Like the OCL-2, the OCL-500 has a wide variety of time constants and dynamic control to optimize the compression characteristics, including a sidechain hi-pass filter.
The OCL-500 will be available in January 2009 with a price tag toward $1295.