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About the Duality:
SSL Duality is SSL’s top-of-the-line, large-format console, combining comprehensive DAW control with SSL’s remarkable SuperAnalogue signal path. Duality SE combines technology from SSL’s acclaimed music console, the XL 9000 K Series, along with new design concepts which faithfully recreate the overload characteristics of valve circuitry through the use of the new VHD preamp. It retains all of the sonic benefits of SuperAnalogue™ capacitor-free servo coupled circuitry, then adds variable harmonic colouration on a channel by channel basis, contained within a control surface which should be familiar to any recording engineer who has previously used SSL consoles.
Key Features Summary
Duality Pro-Station is a version of Duality that offers an alternative centre section layout. Functionally Pro-Station offers all of the same features and benefits as a standard Duality. The winged layout of the Pro-Station is designed to serve producers and engineers who wish to conduct their DAW session editing/arrangement and audio mixing from a single central position. In many studios a separate dedicated DAW station is located adjacent to the console and the task of operating the DAW for editing and arrangement is separated from the audio mixing process. Duality Pro-station will appeal to producers and engineers who like hands-on DAW operation that combines the recording, editing, arrangement and mixing processes.
The shape of the Pro-Station was developed to enable the console centre section to accommodate a 27" Apple Cinema Display. The display is mounted on an articulated gas lift arm, which enables it to be pulled forward towards the operator, when desired. The result is that the central operating position can resemble a more traditional computer operating configuration for more intensive arrangement and editing work. The screen can then be pushed back out of the way and back out of the sweet spot sound field for mixing.