Expanding on the renowned range of dynamics processors Drawmer designed an affordable three band stereo FET compressor that every engineer will totally appreciate - the Drawmer 1973. The culmination of 30 years of development & experience, the 1973 combines the functionality and control of the world class Drawmer S3 with the familiarity and quality of the illustrious 1960 and 1968, providing three bands of transparent, intuitive compression for the price of a conventional single full band compressor.

The 1973 comprises a set of crossover filters that splits your audio signal into three frequency bands. Each split signal then passes through its own compressor & is independently adjusted, after which the signals are recombined & the final wet/dry mix & levels can be adjusted. The advantage is that one band's compression has no affect on the others.

This, along with other features, allow the 1973 to pull off amazing feats that a single-band compressor could never accomplish.

Features:

• Standard intuitive controls such as threshold, gain, switched attack and release with gain reduction metering on each band
• Fast reacting soft knee FET design with excellent left/right tracking across the full range of compression
• Variable wet/dry mix, plus output gain knobs give a 'Parallel Compression' function without the need for external mixing devices, providing complete & effortless control over the amount of compression used and output levels
• Variable band split filters at a 6dB per octave slope with switchable mute and bypass on each band make tuning in to a frequency simple
• Big & Air modes help to preserve the very deep lows & enhance the sparkling highs
• Two analogue VU meters with switchable +10dB meter rescale modes & a switchable ‘Peak’ mode to display fast transients not normally seen on conventional VUs
• Dedicated gain reduction meters on each band
• Classic Drawmer build quality with rugged steel chassis and aluminium front panel