Dual Stereo Gate/Compressor

TC C300 dual stereo gate/compressor
TC Electronic C300 is an easy to use dual engine dynamics processor that gives you superior compression/limiting and gate/expansion feasibilities. It features flexible control of the signal path, 16 gate/expander and 16 compressor/limiter audio-optimized presets with intelligent TC multi-band and full-band technology, innovative new style compression, state-of-the-art TC quality, and an extremely intuitive and straightforward user interface that gives you access to complex and comprehensive dynamic processing with a few buttons and simple operations only. C300 is mainly meant to be used in insert applications.

Optimized presets
The TC Electronic C300 gives you source-based presets that are tailor-made for various types of sources. Depending on the preset you select you have access to intelligent TC full-band- or multi-band technology.
The C300’s multi-band processing is built on a state-of-the-art TC algorithm that bases it’s calculations on the incoming source, and that’s why it’s called source-based. A multi-band compressor, as opposed to a full band compressor, acts differently on different frequency bands. That means that each frequency band actually has its own little compressor working on it, with unique settings like threshold, ratio, attack and release. If you for instance prefer a steep compression on the lower frequencies, a soft compression on the mid frequencies, and a bright and light compression on the higher frequencies, you should use a multi-band compressor.

The C300 comes with several presets that are fully optimized for this kind of compression and you’ll be surprised to discover just how easy multi-band compression can be.

New style compression – an innovative approach to compression
Based on thoughts behind parallel compression you get a completely new approach to working with compression. Now you can take a compressed signal and mix it with a dry signal and enhance all details in the music, just by turning the mix knob. What that does to the sound is that instead of pressing down the signal peaks you preserve all the higher dynamics when you play loud, and at the same time you bring out all the details from the lower end of the signal. Try and apply parallel compression on a drum kit. You’ll discover that all the lower details are smack in the face, while all the bells and high dynamics of the snare and cymbals are preserved and “uncompressed”, so to speak. And the really cool thing about it is that the C300 makes parallel or new style compression the easiest thing in the world – just select the appropriate preset, and you’re up and running!

Simple, intuitive and straightforward
The entire user interface has been laid out to be simple, intuitive and straightforward. All non-essential knobs and tweaking possibilities have been cut away, and replaced with innovative combinations and expansions of parameter indicators and knobs. For instance, the gate and the compressor are both controlled with the same knob, giving you improved and much faster access to important parameters.

TC Electronics C300 Features:

• Dual engine compressor/limiter gate/expander
• 16 compressor/limiter presets and 16 gate/expander presets optimized for selectable audio sources
• Mix features for new style compression
• Intelligent TC multi-band and full-band technology
• Detail enhancement via new style compression
• Flexible routing gives you all standard combinations of link modes + a stereo serial mode that virtually gives you an extra device
• No nonsense user interface
• Comprehensive metering
• Optimized key filters in gate mode
• High quality knobs