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Louder Than Liftoff announces Silver Bullet Mk2

Louder Than Liftoff announces upcoming availability of Silver Bullet Mk2, a culmination of over seven years of designing, and building a 2U stereo bus/line/mic tone-amp; it builds upon the workflow of the original Silver Bullet with its built-in matrix router, increased tone-shaping options, new Aspect Ratio stereo image enhancer, and improved level metering, as well as fully-balanced inserts.

Silver Bullet Mk2 offers twin topology (A or N) Mojo amps and adds a third Mojo slot accepting either new stereo Mojo amp or Colour modules. This feature allows integrated processing like tube saturation, compression, or EQ to be inserted into the signal path after Silver Bullet Mk2’s classic ‘A’ or ‘N’ inspired Mojo amps.

Users can process their 2-bus, individual tracks, or microphone sources through cascading combinations of those three analog Mojo amps as follows: A (American console), N (British console), and C (Custom Mojo/Colour modules via internal expansion slots, with Hitmaker 4000 console modules pre-installed).

Gain and Out(put) controls allow users to gain stage - managing the relative levels in each step of the audio signal flow to dial in saturation - the A and N Mojo amps into the sweet spot, while C-DRV and C-Mix controls allow them to control the amount of drive for the Mojo C amp, and blend the dry and processed signals. Silver Bullet Mk2 allows for enabling of ‘A’ or ‘N’ sonics at the push of a button. Auditioning these two signature sounds during a session no longer requires re-patching or swapping preamps.

With integrated signal routing functionality, Silver Bullet Mk2 also makes it into a single-unit solution for the modern hybrid studio, streamlining hybrid workflow with dedicated Mic, Track, and Mix inputs that feed separate Track and Mix outputs. Each channel also features fully-balanced Insert Left and Insert Right send and RTN (return) jacks that can be switched into the signal path from the front panel, while automatic Insert bypass modes further streamline that workflow - enabled by default, but can be overridden manually.

The three-band Baxandall EQ has a Pultec-inspired low end and a smooth top end. The Air circuit from the original Silver Bullet now has its own dedicated control, and the original LF and HF frequency settings have been expanded to a total of four frequencies per band. The Tight filter is also on hand to tighten up the extreme bottom end with its slightly resonant and tape-like 25 Hz setting excelling on mixes, while the new 50 Hz setting is optimized for tracking individual instruments. It is also possible to smooth out digital top end with the Vintage mode inspired by Seventies-vintage British consoles.

Aspect Ratio is an analog processor new to Silver Bullet Mk2, musically enhancing the stereo width, height, and clarity of a mix. The dual-interface expansion slot allows for tonal exploration. The new stereo Mojo C amp interface supports a high voltage power rail, and compressor gain reduction indication. Users can populate either the stereo module slot or the two mono analog plugin slots - one per channel - to build their signal path. It is also possible to install any of the Colour modules from third-party manufacturers.

Silver Bullet Mk2 features Louder Than Liftoff’s new Hypermatter PSU whose architecture uses an external switch mode power supply in conjunction with an internal regulation and filter module, while its internal PCB assembly uses low-dropout regulators. The initial run of Silver Bullet Mk2 will start shipping in mid-late October 2021.

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