TC Electronic, Gold Cannel

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Gold Channel

Digitally Enhanced Mic Preamp

The Gold Channel is a digitally enhanced microphone preamplifier and a signal refinement toolbox. Plug in your microphone, connect the Gold Channel's outputs to any analog or digital recorder, and safely capture your signal in the best audio quality audio possible. Right after the Gain stage of the Gold Channel, the signal will be converted from analog to digital through 24 bit A/D converters. Once inside the digital domain, you have access to these famous TC Electronic algorithms:
   
    •    EXPANDERS
    •    COMPRESSORS
    •    EQUALIZERS
    •    DE-ESSER
    •    DYNAMIC EQUALIZER
    •    DIGITAL RADIANCE GENERATOR
    •    MS ENCODER/DECODER
    •    TIME ALIGNMENT

When processed, a comprehensive set of simultaneous output formats - both analog and digital - enables you to record and monitor your final signal to most storage standards of today.

Review from Sound on Sound

The Gold Channel is a dream to use. Once the user is familiar with the TC interface and the way in which the various LCD menus are structured, setting the unit up and editing the processing parameters is child's play. All the information you need is presented clearly and simply — for example, adjusting the EQ is assisted by a plot of the frequency response, and a transfer curve is shown when manipulating the various dynamics functions.

When all the signal‑processing was turned off and the Gold Channel was auditioned as a straight microphone preamplifier, it fared extremely well. It has no discernible character, allowing the sound captured by the microphone to pass directly to the recorder if required. The built‑in A‑D stage seemed to perform very well too, and certainly considerably better than the input stages of the digital console I was comparing it with, although that is hardly surprising given the price.

As a signal processor, this machine has all the quality hallmarks of which TC Electronic are so proud. It's clean and accurate when required, rich and warm with the Digital Radiance Generator, and so amazingly flexible that any possible combination of signal processing can be achieved quickly, easily and effectively.