Description
The TLA-100A is a hand-crafted tube leveling amplifier of the highest quality. It contains both vacuum tube and solid state components. This combination of old and new technologies produces an incredibly warm and smooth sounding compression device without the inherit disadvantages of the older designs.
Features
- Ease of Operation
- “Soft Knee” Characteristic
- Switch Selectable Attack & Release Settings
- Side Chain Access
- Stereo Coupling Capability
- Balancied Input
- 990 Balanced Output Stage
- Hand Crafted in the USA
Revered
The world-renowned Summit Audio TLA-100A tube leveling amplifier has been regarded as a staple by studio and live engineers around the world for more than a quarter of a century.
Simple to operate
The main thing that has made the TLA-100A an industry standard since it's introduction in the mid-80s is that it's one of the easiest compressors to use, allowing the focus to remain on the performance...not on the gear.
Best of both worlds
One of the main qualities that makes the TLA-100A so desirable is that it has the smooth program dependent sound of an optical compressor, but is capable of the much faster attack times required for taming fast transients found in source material such as vocals, bass, and drums.
Internal power supply.
All Summit Audio products sport an internal high voltage power supply using an industry standard IEC connector.
Hand-crafted in the USA
Each piece of Summit gear is meticulously crafted by hand in our shop using only the best quality components and attention to detail. Quality components and engineering know-how are the critical element to the sound and longevity of audio gear.
3 year warranty.
All Summit gear comes with a 3 year limited warranty
Specifications
Size and Weight
- Height: 3.5 inches (8.89 cm)
- Width: 19 inches (48.26 cm)
- Depth: 10 inches (25.40 cm)
- Weight: 17 pounds (7.71 kg)
Power Configuration
- Internal AC Supply
- 40watts, 115 or 230 volts, 50 or 60 Hz (Rear Switchable)
- Fuse size .5 amp, slo-blo for 100/115 V
- Fuse size .25 amp, slo-blo at 230 V
Compressor
- Attack times: 180uS-100mS
- Release times: 32mS- 1.5S
Connections
- Inputs: +4 dB female XLR
- Outputs: +4 dB male XLR
- Stereo Link: 1/4" mono Jack
- Side Chain: 1/4 stereo jack for balanced signal input
Max Input Level
- Max input level: +26dBu
- Max output level (XLR): +20dBu
- Max gain: +34dBu
Operating Measurements
- Frequency response: 20Hz- 20kHz +/- 1dB with 5dB compression
- Signal to noise ratio: 124dB
- THD + Noise: 0.09% @ 1kHz, 0dB out
- Dynamic Range: 60dB
- Vacuum tubes: single 12AX7A
