Formed in 2011 by group of sound and electronics engineers with +45 years of combined experience in the Pro Audio world, Heritage Audio brings a new flavor to the high end studio equipment market. Combining a vintage look and sound with key features not found in ancient equipment, Heritage Audio adds some spice to 1970s Series 80 consoles and outboard racks, expanding the sonic palette of any professional or home studio.
The Heritage Audio Successor is a true stereo bus compressor with matched channels for precise left-right compression and virtually no channel offset. In addition to the single-ended Class A output stage in the style of the legendary 1073 amplifier circuitry, the Successor relies on transformer-coupled, balanced inputs and outputs based on a Carnhill transformer for an additional vintage character. The diode bridge circuit adds 2nd order harmonic distortion characteristics and true vintage tone while eliminating nasty odd harmonic content.
Thanks to its modern circuit design, the Successor offers ultra-fast attack and release times never found in vintage designs and allows even FET-style bus compression with significant loudness maximization, without affecting the transients by sound artifacts that occur. Furthermore, the bus compressor shines with versatile sidechain options. Not only the usual high-pass filters are available, but also various peak filters in the mid-band for particularly flexible bus compression. The Sidechain SEND and RETURN connectors also allow external sidechain signals and further external processing of the internal one. In addition, the Successor's rasterized blend control enables parallel compression including the Blend ON/OFF button for direct comparison between wet and dry signals.
