CHANDLER TG12345 Curve Bender Eq Rack Processor
- Catalog #: TG12345 CURVE BENDER
Chandler TG12345 Curve Bender
The EMI TG12345 Curve Bender is the ultimate TG equalizer issued in celebration of the 75th birthday of Abbey Road Studios. It has 21 position gain control.
The Curve Bender was conceived by Chandler Limited designer Wade Goeke and Abbey Road senior engineer Peter Cobbin and is based on the vintage EMI TG12345 desk used to record The Beatles and Pink Floyd. This newest EMI equalizer continues the tradition of EMI eqs started in 1951 with the RS56, affectionately entitled the Curve bender by EMI designers and continued with the TG12345 in 1968, and TG12412 in 1974. The newest version takes the simple but beautiful sounding TG12345 equalizer and realizes it in a fully featured and rethought package for today's use.
During his mixing of numerous Beatles related projects including, Anthology, Yellow Submarine, and Imagine, Peter Cobbin thought of having a fully featured and ultimately flexible version of the original desk eq units. After Wade presented him with a working version of the famed console eq Pete realized his time had come and set Wade to making his unit. Peter asked for four bands and filters based on the slopes of the original desk but with overlapping and expanded choices. Wade turned the 9 selections on the vintage version into 51 eq points plus a multiply switch that increases the boost/cut to 15db (as well as sharpening the Q), filters, and bell/shelf selections on the high and low bands.
Features
- Based on the vintage EMI TG12345 Desk
- 51 EQ Points for Total Control
- Multifunction "Multiply" Switch
- Output Switch has Gold Contacts
- Constructed of Highest Quality Material
Specifications
Equalizer Control Bands:
- Treble - 3.6, 4.2, 6.5, 8.1, 10, 12, 16, and 20 kHz.
- Bell or shelf selection
- +/-10 or +/-15 db boost and cut.
- +/-15 boost/cut also sharpens Q on bell curves.
- Presence 1 - .8, 1.2, 1.8, 2.8, 3.6, 4.2, 6.5, 8.1 kHz.
- Bell curves at +/-10 or +/-15 db boost and cut.
- +/-15 boost/cut also sharpens Q on curves.
- Presence 2 - .3, .5, .8, 1.2, 1.8, 2.8, 3.6 kHz.
- Bell curves at +/-10 or +/-15 db boost and cut. +/-15 boost/cut also sharpens Q on curves.
- Bass - 35, 50, 70, 91, 150, 200, 300 Hz.
- Bell or shelf selection. +/-10 or +/-15db boost and cut.
- +/-15 boost/cut also sharpens Q on bell curves.
High-Pass Filter:
- 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 80, 100, 160, 200, 320 Hz at a gentle slope.
Low-Pass Filter:
- 30, 20, 18, 14, 10, 8.1, 5, 3, 2 kHz at a gentle slope.
Output Gain:
- +/-10db adjustment in 1db steps
Connections:
- All connections on the Curve Bender are transformer balanced with pin 2 hot.
Power PIN Assignment:
- Chassis and audio ground
- 48 volt
- +28 volt
- -28 volt
