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Important: For hygiene and software licensing reasons, some items are only eligible for our Money Back Guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging with all software still "unregistered." Details of exclusions are shown within the product descriptions. Products include:
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This table provides an overview of your statutory consumer rights, compared with our standard returns policy and optional extended money back guarantee and warranty.
| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 30 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
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Key Features
The Softube Summit Audio Grand Channel is an analog modelled channel strip that combines two Summit Audio hardware processors in one unit, the EQF-100 EQ and the TLA-100A compressor. Combining both processors in one plug-in makes it easier to shape tone and dynamics as a single process, helping you hear how EQ and compression interact in real time. The EQF-100 delivers smooth, musical frequency adjustment across the spectrum, while the TLA-100A provides controlled, opto-style compression with a character that remains natural and balanced. You can also swap the processing order with a single switch, giving you additional flexibility when refining vocals, instruments, buses, and full mixes.
Product Ref: 381902
Grand Channel combines the Summit Audio EQF-100 and TLA-100A into a unified channel strip plugin for the first time. Just like having the hardware and a patch bay inside your studio, the Summit Audio Grand Channel features a dedicated routing switch lets you instantly place the EQ before or after the compressor, helping you tailor the signal path to suit different sources and mixing approaches. Individual bypass controls for each module also allow quick comparisons while reducing unnecessary CPU load when a section isn't required.
The EQF-100 Full Range Equalizer is one of the most unique and powerful EQ processors of all time. Softube has meticulously recreated it in digital format, offering a highly flexible approach to tone sculpting, combining four bands of equalisation with dedicated high-pass and low-pass filtering. Its passive-style design delivers smooth, natural frequency adjustments, making it suitable for subtle corrections as well as more deliberate tonal changes. Add weight to low-end instruments, introduce clarity to vocals, or focus specific midrange frequencies with precise boosts and cuts. The addition of output-stage saturation and responsive analogue modelling captures the character, phase behaviour, and harmonic response of the original hardware, creating an organic and musical EQ experience.
Punchy, control, weight. The TLA-100A Compressor delivers controlled, musical compression using an opto-inspired design with a gentle knee response. Simple controls make it easy to dial in results quickly, while the underlying circuit offers a surprisingly broad range of dynamic shaping options. Enhanced for modern producers in DAW workflows, TLA-100A has been enhanced so the compressor can react faster than many traditional optical compressors, making it suitable for everything from transparent level control to more assertive dynamic processing. Vocals, bass, acoustic instruments, and mix buses all benefit from its smooth character, helping tracks sit naturally in a mix without sounding restricted or over-processed.
Softube has modelled each component of the original hardware in detail, recreating the frequency response, phase interaction, saturation characteristics, attack behaviour, and release curves of the analogue units. Beyond the original functionality, the TLA-100A section includes modern workflow enhancements such as parallel compression, adjustable saturation, and low-cut filtering. These additions provide greater control while preserving the character of the hardware. The result is a channel strip that captures the strengths of both Summit Audio processors while offering the flexibility expected from a contemporary mixing plug-in.
"Softube has outdone itself. The TLA-100A plug-in is a testament to what can be achieved in hardware modeling when attention is paid to the smallest details of design." - Zach McNees – Producer / Engineer (Pixies, Rob Thomas, Bjork, Alice Cooper, Liars, The Gregory Brothers)
"I like the Tube-Tech Classic Channel and the Summit Audio Grand Channel on bass, mandolin, and vocals to help warm or fatten them up. I switch between the two units, depending on the original signal or timbre of the instrument." - Bil VornDick (Marty Robbins, Alison Krauss, Rhonda Vincent)
