elysia Designs skulpter 500 Class-A Sound Shaping Recording Preamp

High-end studio processor manufacturer elysia announced availability of its new skulpter 500 sound shaping preamp — pushing its range of 500 Series recording hardware into another area of processing. According to the German company, the skulpter 500 is high quality recording preamp based on single resistors controlling a fully discrete Class-A amplifier capable of complementing any microphone or high-impedance instrumental source and adding two variable saturation/filter stages and an intelligent onboard compressor.

German high-end studio processor manufacturer Elysia announced the availability of the mpressor 500, its latest 500 series module, bringing the heritage of its immensely powerful rack-mount mpressor creative compressor to the popular standard format. Like all Elysia products, the audio path of the mpressor 500 is completely based on discrete circuitry and features unique ways of processing the audio signals in the most effective way.

Because design matters, high-end studio processor manufacturer elysia announced a new unique look to its product line by offering a limited-edition series of its best-selling compressor, the xpressor 500, with handmade wooden front panels, available in both “coffee” and “cream” flavors.

The elysia xfilter 500 is an active true stereo equalizer in a 500-series module format (VPR Alliance certified). Like the xpressor 500 and nvelope 500, it fills two slots on an API lunchbox or 500-series compatible rack. As of publication, the xfilter is also available as a stand-alone 19” rack unit with the same features and functions so this review is valid for both xfilter 500 versions.