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Offers analog warmth to your sound with the power of digital control.
The EL7 FATSO from Empirical Labs is a modern digitally controlled analog device that offers many of
the "musical non-linearities" exhibited by the older tube, class A discrete, and magnetic tape mediums. This two channel audio
processor will musically integrate frequencies and transients and increase the apparent volume without actual increase in
peak levels. In addition, two channels of famous Empirical Labs compression are provided. There are several compressor "types"
with fixed attacks and releases (if you want a fully controllable compressor, you will need the Empirical Labs Distressor).
Users
of the EL7 Fatso can enhance & soften the sound of mediums such as modular digital multitracks (MDM's), HD recorders, DAT
recorders, Ram Recorders etc. Mixdown engineers will have an option not to use bulky, expensive, (and often flaky) analog
tape recorders to get the warmth and sweet high end they've come to rely on for so many decades. Owners of ADATs, MDM's, RAM
and modern hard disk recorders can finally put a stop to complaints about the "coldness" and "brittle edge" of their mixes
and instruments with the "rounded" and "musically non linear elements" of vintage analog. Finally, audiophiles can bring back
the warmth and cuddly sound of LP's and tapes to their CD players, and other digital reproduction mediums.
Fatso's
Four Types of Processing (Available on both channels)
•Harmonic Generation and Soft Clipper (Distortion generation)
•High Frequency Saturation - WARMTH
•Transformer & Tape Head Emulation
•Classic Knee Compression - Empirical Labs Style
About Empirical Labs:
Empirical Labs was started in 1988 and functioned mainly as a recording studio and electronics consulting firm. The founder,
Dave Derr, was also employed at the time by Eventide as an audio engineer and was one of the core designers of their legendary
H3000. EL's first product, the EL8 Distressor (#501578) immediately took the recording industry by storm and hardly a record
has been made without it since. With a mission "to make products that work a little easier, a little better, a lot longer,
and are fun to use," Empirical Labs continues to create unique and innovate products that quickly find homes among the top
professionals of the audio industry (and anyone else who wants in on the Empirical Labs sound).
Empirical Labs
Users:
Aerosmith - Joe Perry (8 Distressors)
Al Schmidt
Alanis Morrisette
Angela Piva - Mary J Blige, Naughty by Nature, Janet Jackson
Ashes dIvide
Billy Howerdel
Billy Sheehan (Mr. Big, Niacin, David Lee Roth)
Bob Clearmountain - Journey, Bryan Adams, Stones, Springstein, etc, etc, etc!
Bob Dylan
Bob Powers
Bon Jovi
Brendan O'Brien -Producer Mixdown Engineer
Bruce Calder - (Electric Lady Studios, Degeneration)
Butch Vig
Cher
Chimera
Chris Lord Alge
Chuck Ainlay
Clair Brothers
Cold Play
Craig Melvin (Gloria Estefan)
Creed - Eight Distressors on their 2003 tour
D & D Studios NYC
Daniel Lanois (U2)
Dave Hewitt - Remote Recording Services
Dave Matthews —
David Kahne
Death Cab for Cutie
Disturbed
Dolly Parton
Don Was
Dust Brothers (John King)
Ed Cherney -
Ed Kowalcyzk - Live
Eddie Kramer (JimiHendrix)
Effanel Remote recording - Randy Ezratty, 2003 Grammys
Elton John
Eminem
Eric Schilling - Gloria Estefan, John Secada
Finn Halle - Germany
Fiona Apple
Five Towns College (6 Distressors)
Fleetwood Mac
Fletcher
Full Sail School for the Recording Arts
George Massenburg
Goo Goo Dolls
Greg Calbi - Sterling Sound
Gungi Patterson
Hole
Jason Slater - Snake River Conspiracy
Jay Baumgartner - NRG Studios
Jay Gordon - Producer, Lead Vocalist of Orgy
Jerry Harrison - Live, Verve Pipe, (12 Distressors)
Jerry Only - The Misfits
Joe Berisi
Joe Chicarelli - Hole, Beck, U2, etc!
Joe Satriani
John Agnello - Producer, Engineer, Mixer
John Kurzweg - Creed
John McBride at Blackbird Studios - 8 Distressors, 4 Fatsos, 2 Lil FrEQs
John Paterno
John Patterson —
John Sicket
Josh Abraham (Orgy, Staind, Korn, Limp Bizkit)
Judy Saiya
Julien - K
Kevin Killen
Kip Winger
Kooster McAllister - Record Plant Remote
Linkin Park
Marc Costanzo, Len
Mark Anthony
Mark Plati - David Bowie
Maroon 5
Matt Wallace
Megadeth
Metallica
Michael Bienhorn
Michael Wilton (Queensrych)
Micheal Brauer - Sony Studios NYC
Mick Gazauski — (Mariah Carey, Boyz 2 Men, Toni Braxton, etc.)
Mick Hughes - Metallica FOH Engineer
Mike Keating (Sting, Bush, Springstein live)
Mike Shipley
Millbrook Sound
Mitch Goldfarb
Mutt Lange
N SYNC
Natalie Merchant
Nate Kunkel
Nikki Sixx (Motley Crue)
Nine Inch Nails
Outsmarting Simon
Paul Tennebekk (Norway's Midwest Audio)
Peter Denenberg
Phil (the Buther) Nicolo (The Stones, Amy Grant, Sting, Aerosmith, Judy Saiya)
Phil Ramone/John Patterson
Rammstein
Real World Studios - (Peter Gabriel's facility in England)
Ricky Martin
Roey Shamir - Information Society, Al B Sure
Ross Hogarth - (Jewel, Coal Chamber, Grade 8)
Ryan Hewitt - Engineer Extraordinare
Scott Anthony - Dessau recording, Beastie Boys
Seal - on tour
Sean Beresford (3rd Eye Blind)
Shania Twain
Sheryl Crow
Sound Kitchen
Staind
Sting
Stone Temple Pilots
Sue Shoemaker - Blues Traveler
Tchad Blake - Sheryl Crow, Richard Thompson, Crowded House, Pearl Jam, Bonnie Raitt
The Academy Is
The Police
The Voyager Remote Truck in Paris
The Who
Tom Lord Alge
Tony Levin
Wheatus
Whitney Houston
Woodland Studios - Robert Solomon
Empirical Labs EL7 Fatso Analog Tape Simulator and Optimizer Features:
- Soft clip features - modeled after broadband tape saturation. WITHOUT THE NOISE! Smooth clipping up to 20% THD.
- User programmable high frequency saturation, simulating the "softening" for which analog tape and phonographs are known.
This is the "Warmth" control on FATSO.
- Switchable transformer circuits, which can add the musical artifacts generated by classic devices like NEVE, API, etc.
These artifacts include frequency "rounding", low order clipping & intermodular distortion, transient clipping... and some
other very musical non-linearities.
- Four compression modes One for tracking, one general purpose, one "bus" compressor, and SPANK (see below). All LINKABLE!
Classic knee compressor sound that really grabs.
- SPANK! - An additional limiter that musically smashes the dynamic range, and can be used to stop clipping before digital
recorders. There is a subtle knee followed by hard limiting.
- Huge "DISTRESSOR" knobs with high resolution numbering - For easy readability and repeatable settings. They also go to
10 1/2 .
- Distortion indicator lights - A 0 VU LED and a "Pinned" (5%) LED. No hard clipping until a few dB past "Pinned".
- Sidechain output and input for eq-ing control signals.
- Locked, calibrated, output level - Allows speed in setting tape and live mix levels.
- Foolproof operation - it's almost impossible to get a bad sound.
- Single height and light weight - Two channels of classic sound in a small, extremely reliable package.
- Discrete and integrated combination - the best of speed/linearity with repeatability. Hand tested & selected components.
All metal film and Roederstein resistors in the audio path - top quality components, most being high temperature military
spec parts.
- Switchable 110/220 volt operation - Extra fuse provided inside unit.
- True bypass - Know what it's really doing. All contacts doubled up for maximum reliability. No internal audio connectors.
- XLR and 1/4" phone ins and outs - XLR fully balanced, transformerless design, pin 2 hot. Changeable by user to pin 3 hot!
- No internal connectors, high reliability parts and military grade switches and relays.
- Three year unlimited warranty.
- Interface and features found nowhere else.
- Allows processing not readily available in our current digital domain. New life for analog processing!
- Hand wired, calibrated in USA. Shipping weight 13.25Lbs.
Warm up you recording today!
Empirical Labs EL7 Fatso Analog Tape Simulator and Optimizer Specifications:
- Freq. Response
- is 2 Hz to 60 kHz in clean audio mode (+0, -3 dB).
- Dynamic Range
- 110 dB from maximum output (20%THDsoft clipping) to minimum output. Greater than 100 dB signal to noise.
- Distortion Ranges between .06% and 20% depending on mode and settings.
- DC coupled Input and Outputs
- High quality audio caps used internally. Compressor Time Constants - Attack range 1mS - 200mS. Release range .05 sec to
3.5 seconds. Attack and Releases are fixed by the compression type selected
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