Solid State Logic has released the LMC+ Module for the 500-format modular rack platform.

The LMC+ Module is a new and ‘significantly enhanced’ version of the classic SSL Listen Mic Compressor from the SL 4000E mixing console. Originally designed to prevent overloading the return feed from a studio communications mic, its fixed attack and release curves proved popular for use on ambient drums mics, delivering an aggressive and distinctive tone. While ambient drums are an obvious home for the LMC, over time it has been used to process backing vocals, guitars, parallel compression feeds, and many other uses (and abuses) have been found for its grab and bite.

This all-new version includes all of the characteristics of the original version but with a collection of new features – a pair of variable SSL high-pass and low-pass filters to allow targeting of a specific frequency range, a filters to compressor side chain option and a wet/dry blend control for instant parallel compression. Two additional tools give the LMC+ a distinctive twist – the Scoop button phase inverts the wet signal to give unusual sound sculpting possibilities using the Wet/Dry blend control, and the Split button engages a band-pass subtraction mode that can compress certain frequencies of the signal and leave others untouched to be blended back together at the output stage. Using the Scoop and Split modes can subtly add tone or completely destroy and deconstruct audio.