SA2 Dialog Processor HD v7

Description

Dialog. The focal point of any movie, television show, documentary, or for that matter, any creative media production involving the spoken word. Add to the mix a sweeping musical score, dozens of foley effects, and plenty more - and it becomes clear the job of dialog mixing is a tall order. After all, if you can’t hear what the actors are saying, why watch it at all!! Many dialog editors and mix engineers have honed their craft to a repeatable process so they can work through the many hours of scenes. A few more intrepid ones have gone about creating their own custom processors for handling some of the issues presented by dialog processing. One such box was the Sonic Assault, originally conceived by Academy Award winning re-recording mixer Mike Minkler, and used in over 100 major motion pictures. But custom one-of-a-kind hardware doesn’t last forever. Arrangements were made for McDSP to have a look at the box, and the result is the SA-2 Dialog Processor, or SA-2 for short. The SA-2 Dialog Processor is designed to improve the overall sound of recorded speech. But the SA-2 is not just for dialog. It’s equally useful for vocals, and is a great tool for adjusting the timbre of any track, a reliable de-esser, and a fine multi-frequency compressor, in our completely biased opinion. The SA-2 Dialog Processor is made up of 5 bands of active equalization, configured in a variety of modes to best address common issues of dialog. Each band of active equalization has a threshold control to determine at what signal level the active equalizer begins to effect the signal. There are also enable buttons for each band to quickly audition the effect of any given band. Two mode selectors - one for controlling the ballistics of the active equalization, and a second for placing the five bands at strategic locations in the frequency spectrum. Finally, there are input and output gain controls for overall adjustment.

Features

• Five independent bands of strategic active equalization
• Multiple process modes for a variety of applications
• Unique signal reduction metering
• Double precision processing
• Ultra low latency
• Mono and stereo versions