Quickly, the Fairchild 670 has two modes. First it's a limiter for mastering purposes. In this mode it's finicky as hell but if you can dial it in it sounds delicious.Boat anchor indeed! I haven't heard the name Fairchild in a long time, I had to look that one up. Nice! Looks like a prosound shaper/compander/limiter. That is more something used in the front end of pro audio recording, but I have a pair of dbx noise limiters (twin mono units that clamp down on background noise) that I used to use in video editing:
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A Quintessence graphical equalizer (no photo), and a dbx 223/224 and a DOD SR835 pro electronic crossovers that I use for spectral filtering and distribution in my quad-amped custom music system.
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It ain't no Fairchild, but it ain't bad just to play records.
Now back to topic.
The other mode is why I got it, it's record cutting mode. It'll drive a Neumann record lathe directly. Vinyl is making a big comeback, and we'd like to do some cool vinyl.