Introducing the Heritage Audio BritStrip — the culmination of 50 years of analog design in a single rack unit. Britstrip nails the sound of yesterday’s iconic recordings for today’s demanding engineers.
The Heritage Audio BritStrip combines a real-deal 73 mic preamplifier, an expanded 73 equalizer, a discrete Class-A DI, and the infamous diode bridge compressor from the Heritage Audio Successor. The closest equivalent of the BritStrip would be chaining together a 73JR, 73EQJR and mono Successor.

Key Features:

• 1-channel British-flavored channel strip with preamplifier, equalizer, and compressor
• Transparent passive design minimizes insertion loss
• 24-step detented output provides rock-solid stereo imaging when using the built-in stereo link
• 73-style preamp delivers a classic “British Iron” sound with up to +80dB of input gain
• Selectable input impedance adapts to your low-output microphones
• -20dB pad accommodates extra-loud sources
• +48V phantom power for your condenser microphones
• Polarity reverse function solves phase-alignment issues
• Line-level mode makes re-amping prerecorded tracks a breeze
• High-impedance JFET DI input for electric guitars and basses
• 3-band inductor EQ nails the sonics and behavior of revered British-style units
• High band includes +/-16dB of shelving, selectable at 10kHz, 12kHz, or 16kHz
• Low band includes +/-16dB of shelving, selectable at 60Hz, 110Hz, or 220Hz
• High and low bands have selectable shelving/peak filter types
• Semi-parametric mid band includes +/-18dB of peaking with switchable Q, selectable at 0.36kHz, 0.7 kHz, 1.6 kHz, 3.2 kHz, 4.8 kHz, or 7.2kHz
• Highpass filter, selectable at 50Hz, 80Hz, 160Hz, or 300Hz, makes short work of muddy sources
• Diode-bridge compressor reins in out-of-control dynamics while adding weight and color
• Intuitive controls for threshold and makeup gain make dialing in your settings easy
• Attack speed toggles between ultra-fast (great for slamming drums) and slow (ideal for gluing a mix together)
• Release values range from 50ms to 400ms, plus you get a super-useful automatic mode
• Sidechain filter makes it easy to keep excessive frequencies from unbalancing your mix
• Blend control supplies dead-simple parallel compression

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