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N-Trophy / All Discrete Analog Console
N-Trophy is a fully discrete, modular analog in-line console designed to become the heart of a modern analog or hybrid studio, where sound quality and fast, creative work is a key. Where you don’t want to be overwhelmed by increasingly complex technology, but focus on the art itself. That is the way it should be. And all that you will experience with N-Trophy is just that.
And that is exactly what you will experience with N‑closure channel strips.
16 channel version, up to 48 inputs at mixdown.
Our console gives you simply everything to become a real Unhindered Maker... Feel free. Together with N-Trophy.
A modern producer’s dream: all advanced analog recording, mixing and mastering tools.
It is an exceptional console in so many aspects, like never before.
Why? Read and see…
N-Trophy is a result of three years of meticulous development and countless hours spent on listening tests in our professional analog recording studio. Maximum care has been taken to choose every single component in N-Trophy’s audio path for the best possible sound quality and musicality. There is no smallest compromise anywhere. We designed special audio transformers and discrete opamps, as well as original six-band passive EQ, THD Stage, Tube Optical Compressor with innovative detection and compression circuits and unique stereo width expansion modules. At the same time, we eliminated all points where classic analog consoles used to be weak or overcomplicated. The signal path is also as short as possible, despite plenty of N-Trophy’s creative sound-shaping tools. It has also our revolutionary zero-loss Summing Matrix, where every channel is directly connected. Other analogue consoles use traditional long summing bus architecture that is a kind of compromise.
We spent a lot of time in our lab and studio to develop the best possible summing circuits to complete N-Trophy’s top-quality audio path. They are all based on the legendary Jensen JE990 discrete opamps. We have also taken special care to develop the classic linear power supply with a custom double shielded toroidal transformer, acting as a power conditioner for very low noise performance. +/- 24V console powering ensures very large headroom.
Our goals were to reach the best possible sound quality together with exceptional creativity, musicality and practical functionality. In many scenarios, you will not need any additional analog gear to do all studio tasks. N-Trophy gives you practically all creative sound-shaping tools that music producers ever wanted to have in one analog console, but never got them before. Until now.
N-Trophy is also extremely enjoyable and easy to use, allowing artist / engineer to focus on the fast creative work, where our console simply shines. Surely, it sets a completely new approach in modern music recording and production in analog domain. It never tries to replace processes that are better in the digital domain, like very sharp eq curves, or phase-manipulating plugins, but what is possible and sounds best in analog – it does with perfection.
N-Trophy delivers extremely vital, deep, musical, and audiophile-quality sound with lots of details, for the most demanding classical recordings, or earth-shaking, saturated and colored sound for modern genres. It depends on you.
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MAIN FEATURES
- MODULARITY. EASY USER EXPANDABLE PER CHANNEL
- WELL-THOUGHT-OUT AND SIMPLE STUDIO INTEGRATION WITH ONBOARD OR REMOTE PATCHBAY.
- ONE CONSOLE FOR ALL RECORDING, MIXING AND MASTERING TASKS
- MOVING FADER AUTOMATION, CONTROLLABLE BY DAW.
- EASY INSTALLATION, EXPANSION AND SERVICE MAINTENANCE.
- POWER EFFICIENCY AND SILENCE.
- WIDE INSTALLATION OPTIONS.
N-Trophy / All Discrete Analog Console
CHANNEL STRIP
- 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.
- Fader A PAN with SOLO SAFE switch, which disables channel from soloing. Routing to MIX Bus and 4 Group pairs.
- Classic scribble strip for tracks description with a dry marker.
- Highly reliable MUTE, SOLO, PFL, and DAW MODE buttons. Fader and switches control N-Trophy’s analog channel, but in DAW MODE they control the virtual DAW mixer. In DAW MODE analog channel level is automatically set at 0dB (indicated by the yellow diode). SOLO SAFE indication diode for A fader in the channel.
- 100mm high precision stepped motorized fader, based on fixed resistors. This is an absolutely unique HUM Audio Devices design of ultra-precise, high-resolution stepped analog fader. Up to now, it was impossible to achieve this level of accuracy in analog consoles, using standard analog faders. Our design ensures fader position settings are ideally matched and repeatable through all console channels. It is a fantastic feature for precise stem summing and/or mastering applications.
- Classic Flying Fader design is the best-quality solution. We do not use any VCA, which could degrade sound quality. High resolution of DAW automation. N-Trophy’s fader scale exactly matches the Pro Tools scale for user convenience.
- Unlike many other analog large format consoles, N-Trophy’s channel strip is 7cm wide, with larger solid machined aluminium knobs and custom-designed fader caps, for the best user experience.
N-Trophy / All Discrete Analog Console
MAIN MIX FADERS WITH INSERTS MATRIX
Main Inserts with blending rotary switches, and 3 external inserts matrix. These inserts are included in Master Channel’s processing chain. You can work in M/S mode, change order and freely integrate external mastering equipment into the chain, like in advanced mastering consoles. Global On/Off switch for whole MIX processing.
Main Mix faders on rotary switches with mastering grade level and trim settings. Precisely calibrated for the exact stereo match.
N-Trophy / All Discrete Analog Console
MASTER SECTION MONITORING
4 Sifam VU – Meters with assignable source for each pair. Top-quality ballistics.
TC Clarity M Stereo Analyzer (available as standard). – Selectable source (Analog/Digital) – Selectable Analog source: (VU 1/2 or VU 3/4). – Selectable Analog input level: (-20dB / -10dB / 0dB). In the OFF source switch position, you can use it also as a virtual analyzer (via USB).
– Setting options for TC Clarity M.
– Talkback level with Microphone.
– Trimmers for group VU Meters.
– Cable channel slot for Lexicon LARC or other controller cables.
Sifam VU – Meters for the Master Compressor.
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CONNECTIONS
N-Trophy provides discrete connections for all channels,
as well as for the Master Section.
All of them are also available on patchbay. N-Trophy is the in-line console with independent MIC/Line and Tape inputs. Channel’s sockets are:
Mic In (XLR)
Tape In (XLR)
Line In (XLR/Jack)
Insert Send (XLR)
Insert Return (XLR)
Direct Out (XLR)
In Master Section, you have additional XLR line inputs straight to all Group faders. All tools in Group Channels are at your disposal, so you can use Inserts, Aux Sends / Returns and Stereo Width. Thanks to external XLR Group Inputs you can connect external sources for increasing the number of tracks during the mix. This feature is designed especially for stem mastering or summing, so if you have Master Section alone, you can sum up to 16 line inputs.
N-Trophy / All Discrete Analog Console