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Originally Posted by angelo
Hi,
My respect for your work, it looks great. Seeing this makes me remember an article on the old focusrite website (article is gone now).
As far as I can remember Focusrite build an 5.1 compressor from/with Red's 3 for Mark Hawley the soundengineer and husband of Tori Amos.
He used to use alot of Focusrite stuff live for Tori and had the 5.1 unit specially buid for use in the studio.
I own (just) one Red3

and reading this article impressed me and making it remember it now.
Cheers,
Angelo
Angelo,
Good eye and memory. That's exactly where this project started from. Our customer saw that article and asked if we could build them one. When we checked with Focusrite we found out that all they did was hard link the Compressor control circuits of 2 Red 3's together.(L, R, L Surround, R Surround)
So after much discussion we decided to take it much farther by using 3 Red 3's and not ONLY linking the compressors but also the limiters and including all the switchable filters. Plus the biggest difference between the Tori Amos one and this was the fact that this one is switchable. With the link switches out, any one of the Red 3's become standard Red 3's (except for the input transformers and rotary switches instead of pots), while the rest stay linked.
Also no "metalwork" was harmed in making this. If desired the Red 3's can be converted back to normal. Tori's units had holes drilled in the backs in order to link them.
-Tony