| Cranesong Trakker Single-Channel Compressor Details
The Cranesong Trakker is a high quality Single Channel Discrete Class A Compressor Limiter. It functions either as a musically transparent compressor or as a vintage compressor - limiter with selectable hard or soft knee.
The Cranesong Trakker is a maximum-versatility toolkit for solving real-world recording, broadcast, and sound reinforcement problems with the utmost attention to signal quality. Trakker can create distinct new sounds or maximize existing ones.
Furthermore, the Cranesong Trakker has adjustable threshold, attack, release, knee shape, and makeup gain controls. In addition to these controls, a function switch allows the selection of transparent operation or vintage operations such as optical, air optical, soft knee, and hard knee - each with four different amplifier/gain control sounds.
Amplifier gain control sounds are:
- Transparent
- Vintage (tube or old style Class A)
- Transparent with VCA artifacts
- Vintage with VCA artifacts
The perfect solution for surround mixing. Trakker's link switch allows for linking up to 8 units.
What We Think
"The Crane Song Trakker really should be a serious compressor for consideration for anyone in the market for an optical style compressor that also craves a lot of control. There are sixteen total compression characters selectable from the Trakker's Character selection switch on the front panel. By following some of the example settings from Crane Song's website, I was able to very quickly dial up some pretty convicing emulations of some rather famous (and sometimes much more expensive as is the case with the Fairchild) compressors. All that aside, the Trakker really allows you to dial in on the total compression characteristc, which is something not traditionally something possible with most optical style compressors. Also, the linking capabilities of the Trakker make it a fantastic choice as for stereo and surround work mixing work. This compressor sounds so good and is so flippin' useful that I had a hard time sending it back."
Alan Moon - Front End Audio
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