Summit Audio introduces the TLA-50 Mini Tube Leveling Amp

Summit Audio introduces a new product for the live sound and recording markets, the TLA-50 Tube Leveling Amp. Says Paul M. Grove, sales and marketing of Summit Audio. After 16 years of success with the TLA-100A, weve decided to bring the technology to the new millennium. The TLA-50 brings that great Summit Audio sound to new markets.

Similar to the venerable TLA-100A Tube Leveling Amplifier, the TLA-50 uses the same simple, intuitive interface with a VU meter framed by a continuously variable gain knob on the left and gain reduction knob on the right. Attack and release can be switched between fast, medium and slow, and metering is for output level or gain reduction. Two TLA-50s can also be linked for stereo operation and the side chain can be accessed via the back panel. The back panel also features Neutrik® connectors with both XLR and ¼ balanced TRS inputs and outputs which will automatically match levels, so the TLA-50 can be used as a bump box to easily interface between 10dB and +4dB devices. When in bypass, audio passing through the TLA-50 also passes through the 12AX7A/ECC83 vacuum tube, so this device is a perfect warming device to give that warm Summit Audio sound with or without compression. This 1/2rack space device has an internal power supply and is expected to ship by March 1 st , 2001.