Crane Song TRAKKER - Manual (Page 4)

INTRODUCTION
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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. TRAKKER can create distinct new sounds or maximize existing ones. An
additional feature of the TRAKKER is the ability to link up to 8 units for surround mixing.
The 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.
The amplifier/gain control sounds are:
• Transparent
• Vintage (tube or old style class A)
• Transparent with VCA artifacts and
• Vintage with VCA artifacts.
The front panel contains a 22 element VU meter with over load indicator to show gain reduction
and allow accurate monitoring of output levels. In the link mode the master unit controls all
functions of the slave units except for make-up gain.
TRAKKER has transformer-less balanced inputs and outputs. The unit is 1 rack space tall and
operates from 100V, 115V, 230V or 240V mains.
TRAKKER is a maximum-versatility toolkit for solving real-world recording, broadcast, and sound
reinforcement problems with the utmost attention to signal quality. From single channel operation
to bus compression, TRAKKER can provide an artistic choice of sounds at the flip of a switch.