FAQs: Brilliance Pack & RS124
What does the Brilliance Pack consist of?
The Brilliance pack contains three separate one band presence equalizers. These were used in the 60s and designed to give Abbey Road recording engineers additional frequencies that were not found on the EMI REDD studio mixing desks of the time.
What is the difference between the grey and green rs127?
The green and grey RS127s have identical circuits and controls. The grey has a chrome rack handle that made it convenient to plug into the control room patch-bays. There were usually two of these in each room, but due to their popularity additional EQ was often needed, and so stand-alone boxes were made to achieve this. These were painted green. The RS127 is well documented in the highly recommended "Recording The Beatles" book (Kevin Ryan & Brian Kehew, Curvebender Publishing, 2006) which also refers to the change in line level and EMI standard impedance that has taken place since the early Sixties. By happy accident, when comparing the green and grey units, we heard a dramatic difference when one of them was passed through an EMI interfacing transformer. The transformer "effect" exaggerated the EQ curves and this sound is represented in the green box.
How can I select the three different RS124 serial numbers?
You change the model in the plugin by clicking on the serial number label on the left side of the GUI.
What is the LCR 'stack' mode on the RS124?
Only the TDM and RTAS versions support LCR operation for use in Pro Tools HD. When inserted on an LCR track, three "stacked" GUIs are loaded i.e the three different serial numbers, allowing the compression to be linked across the three channels. To get multi-channel operation with Pro Tools LE (LCR, Quad, 5.1, etc) you would need to have the Complete Production Toolkit software.
What does the lamp do on the RS124?
The lamp above the Output Attenuator behaves as follows:
It glows white during normal compressor operation, goes off if the Power switch is moved to Off (BYPASS) and changes to red when the SuperFuse mode is being used.
What is SuperFuse mode?
Press the fuse button on the right hand side of the GUI and stand back!