We are looking at late September to do full production model in studio demos and a 10/2016 release window.
To give a quick recap of our improvements and feature set:
- Zulu features 4 controls.
Deck which selects your machine of choice, LOFI, PROFI and HIFI plus
*See below.
Bias which controls your emphasis curves and
*see below.
Enhance which blends in dry signal pre tape, but via sweetened post input electronics with an added high end emphasis circuit.
Headroom which controls the
behavior
of your tape formula in conjunction with your machine.
- Zulu is now a platform offering
full recall of its settings via 3, 4, 11 and 12 discrete position rotary switches.
- We have added
2 additional settings.
The Deck control has 1 new position called Elec which is short for Electronics. This position emulates monitoring a tape machine on input, where you bypass hearing the tape itself. We think there a great many folks who would enjoy this position very much, especially mastering engineers! So we added it.
The second change was made to Bias. We added a position called O which is short for Open, this bypasses the passive emphasis circuitry, which in turn impacts the tape saturation, tape compression and overall sonic patina of Zulu, so consider that added as well!
As a quick reminder the promotional price for Zulu will be $400 for a limited time only and once that period ends, the price will increase to $700.
Thanks for your interest in Zulu and please be sure to visit our website if you need to pre-order Zulu!
-L.
