HUM Audio Channelstrip

Top quality Sifam VU Meters with excellent ballistics. A full range of metering points through the channel’s signal path can be selected.

Fully inline design with Mic/Line and Tape inputs for each channel, swappable between main, and rotary faders. Tape Input has an additional 0/+6/+12dB Gain switch.

High-end discrete Mic/Line/Instrument preamp (0dB to +66dB) based on the legendary Jensen JE990, perceived as the best discrete opamp ever designed. N-Trophy’s preamp design is also based on our flagship RP-2 preamp, which proved itself to be one of the best-sounding preamps you can find anywhere. Excellent, vital and musical sound with a lot of details and a sense of „space” for demanding instruments.

Switchable custom made HUM Audio Devices beautifully sounding input transformer.

Tweakable Saturation / THD stage with lots of creative sound shaping possibilities. Choose type between ASYMMETRICAL (Germanium / Silicon) or SYMMETRICAL (Soft / Medium / Hard). Switchable custom made HUM Audio Devices beautifully sounding input transformer.

DRY / WET BLEND knob for channel insert allows for parallel signal processing.

Channel Direct Output with source selector and output level for recording processed, or unprocessed sound.

Channel processing ORDER rotary switch allows to set order of built-in EQ, Compressor and Insert.

Channel Meter Source rotary switch (Preamp Out, Tape In, Channel Out, EQ, Compressor, Gain Reduction).

TUBE OPTICAL Compressor / Limiter: Innovative detection and compression circuits. Variable transition between compression and limiting with a dedicated knob. You can switch off compression, but still drive the tube, or turn off the tube to save its life. – BLEND knob for dry/wet processing. – L/R stereo link between adjacent channels. – Side Chain filter and external KEY input. – AUX 7 & AUX 8 can serve as Compressor sidechain busses, for modern creative compression techniques

Independently switchable passive Low Pass & High Pass filters.

Passive EQ with separate Boost and Cut frequency knobs. Total of 6 bands: HI, MID and LOW. HI and LOW bands can be switched between shelf / peak characteristics. This is an original design of EQ, hard to find anywhere else, and with a special purpose. With gentle overlapping curves for fast and creative sound shaping with lots of musicality.

EQ, HPF and LPF filters use rotary switches, so their settings are easily recallable. Thanks to it multiple channel EQs are perfectly matched to have the same characteristics.

8 mono pre or post-fader AUX SENDS. Adjacent Auxes can be switched in pairs to be stereo sends. In such a situation, left send (1,3,5 & 7) becomes Aux Pan. You have the possibility to independently assign all four pairs between A and B fader. The Center Section is prepared also for outputting cue mix to 4 pairs of musician headphones using AUX sends.

Aux 7 & Aux 8 can serve as global N-Trophy’s sidechain busses, ideal for modern creative mixing techniques. Sidechain busses are available for channel compressors, as well as for the Master Compressor.

Rotary B Fader. Pan & Level pots, with fader flip ability, and SOLO / PFL switch. You can assign B fader to Group 1/2 for additional processing, or to the Main MIX Bus. PAN MODE SWITCH (L<PAN>R) allows you to pan each channel hard left/right or use the PAN knob. Panning hard that way gives you absolute stereo separation of chosen channels, which benefits in better sound space definition than using only traditional PAN knobs.