Gyraf Audio G24 Passive Compressor

The G24 is an entirely new type of stereo compressor - aimed at mix and mastering functions. Similar to it's sister and predecessor, the G23 EQ, it's for those situations where you have a mix that is already nearly-perfect balanced, but you want to control some part of its dynamic without messing up the overall definition. Gentleness and subtlety were again our main design targets here: This compressor is based on a carefully designed fully passive signal path, consisting of one metal film resistor, one audio transformer and one photo resistor per channel. That's it. Nothing more. Yes, the elaborate sidechain and controls need active electronics (and thus a power supply, contrary to G21) - but all these analogue engines only ever interacts with your audio by directing a bit of light to an array of photo resistors dragging that channel towards one or the other phase of the opposite channel signal. Nothing else. We believe this to be the most important innovation in the G24, the passive