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Dangerous Music 2-BUS+ - Used From Dangerous
Breathe your mix to life by restoring width, depth, punch and bottom-end focus. In Used, Excellent condition
$1,746.00
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When Chris Muth and the Dangerous Music team launched the original 2-Bus, they virtually invented the active analog summing category. With the Dangerous Music 2-Bus+, they took that legendary, high-headroom foundation and built the ultimate analog summing engine for modern hybrid mixing—combining pristine audiophile summation with custom analog color circuits you can dial in with precision.
At its core, the 2-Bus+ is a 16-channel active analog summing mixer designed to solve the spatial collapsing, lack of depth, and digital harshness that can happen when summing complex mixes entirely inside a DAW. It provides massive analog headroom and vast channel separation, giving your mixes three-dimensional width, a rock-solid center image, and effortless punch.
What makes the 2-Bus+ an absolute game-changer over traditional summing boxes is its three switchable analog processing circuits:
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Harmonics: A subtle odd-order harmonic distortion circuit that adds classic analog tape-like warmth and presence.
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Paratone: A parallel FET limiter circuit inspired by vintage aggressive limiting—perfect for adding weight and energy without squashing transients.
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X-Former: Custom-wound transformers with a core-saturation control that injects authentic console punch and low-end authority.
With flexible routing that allows you to assign these color circuits across channels 1–8, channels 9–16, or the main stereo bus, the 2-Bus+ gives you complete creative control over where and how much analog mojo you apply to your mix stems.
Manufacturer's Description from Dangerous
Dangerous Music invented the stand-alone analog summing mixer with the ground-breaking 2-BUS back in 1999, and now we’re redefining mixing yet again with the brand new 2-BUS+. With a redesigned analog summing circuit that exceeds previous specifications, the 2-BUS+ delivers unsurpassed imaging, dimensionality, punch and headroom. While the 2-BUS+ active summing sounds incredible on its own, it now includes three innovative custom color circuits that provide a vast array of flexibly routed tonal options. Harmonics is a euphoric odd- and even-order distortion generator; Paralimit is a hard-hitting FET-style limiter; and X-Former is a pair of Cinemag output transformers with an exclusive core-overdrive circuit. With it’s elegantly straightforward buttons and knobs, the 2-BUS+ puts endless combinations of robust analog sound at your fingertips. Meticulously developed by our hands-on team and brilliantly designed by the legendary Chris Muth, the 2-BUS+ embodies our dedication to sacrificing nothing in order to deliver the very best analog products available.
When it comes to adding analog color to your mixes, the design team at Dangerous has developed three totally original all-analog circuits: Harmonics,Paralimit and X-Former. Because these circuits are physically built into the 2-BUS+, you get a versatile selection of analog colors while never leaving the lush, open analog mixing environment.
Harmonics
Add the euphoric sound of an analog circuit on the edge of distortion to your whole mix, or to individual channel pairs. Carefully tuned to generate the perfect mixture of odd- and even-order harmonics, this effect runs parallel with the unprocessed signal so you can dial in just the right amount of tone. The top end subtly simmers, the bass gently growls, and the whole sonic image warms up in ways that only a real analog circuit can offer.
Paralimit
This is a FET Limiter set to stun. An original Chris Muth design inspired by the famous 1176 Limiting Amplifier “all buttons in” trick, you get an infinite ratio setting flooded with analog top-end. With its blend knob and assignment buttons,Paralimitgives you instant parallel compression, in stereo, in the analog domain, on the full mix or on a stereo stem – a flexible set-up that otherwise requires complex patching, careful level matching and significant amounts of analog outboard gear.
X-former
Last in line are a pair of customized Cinemag transformers with Chris Muth’s totally unique approach to driving the core. Switch them in for the solid, punchy sound that makes older analog consoles so loved, then turn up the X-Former knob to drive the core of the transformer in a way that’s totally unique to the 2-BUS+. X-former is all about dialing in just the right amount of classic analog console color whenever it’s called for.
Features
♦ 16 channels of the world’s best active analog summing, that even surpasses the original
♦ Three unique analog color circuits: Harmonics, Paralimit and X-Former
♦ Effortless routing and blending of analog color circuits via elegant user interface
♦ Switchable stereo analog insert for easy outboard gear integration
♦ Massive sounds, sacrificing no detail
♦ Crystal clear sonic imaging and three-dimensionality
♦ Endless headroom for modern digital signal levels
♦ Stepped output gain control for exact recalls
♦ Both XLR and D-Sub input connectivity
♦ Audiophile-grade components throughout
♦ Hand-assembled in the USA
About Manufacturer
The company’s mission is to solve the problems of the ‘hybrid studio’ by leveraging the best of both worlds: seamless integration of analog and digital equipment’s strengths and eliminating their weaknesses. Since product designer Chris Muth’s time has been spent almost exclusively designing custom equipment for many of the world’s preeminent mastering engineers and facilities, the combination of a mastering quality audio path with an intuitive feature set became the company’s baseline. It is worth noting that these designs evolved not in a vacuum but with input from some of the best ears in the business, refined in a working mastering environment instead of on paper. In the end, listening makes all the difference.
Born out of the shop at Dangerous Music recording studios, the equipment company was officially founded in 2001 with the commercial release of the Dangerous 2-Bus analog summing amplifier. Dangerous Music product designs were created to answer the sonic and ergonomic challenges presented by the changing studio environment as it moved from analog consoles and analog multi-track tape recorders to hard-disk recording and software-based digital mixer/editors, collectively known as digital audio workstations, or DAWs.
The process of recording and mixing without an analog console or tape deck created the opportunity to develop products that allowed engineers to embrace all the power and convenience of a DAWs automation, editing and recall, while continuing to work as they had, with console-style tone and headroom, hardware monitor control, metering, speaker and input source switching, and the ability to insert analog processors into the signal path easily and with the highest quality results.
Company co-founder Bob Muller says, “The ideas behind Dangerous Music products are driven by the needs of the music community, who continuously finds new ways to work in the studio. Early on we concluded that once the smoke cleared it was not going to be an all-analog or all-digital studio, but a hybrid environment. We all embrace the benefits of new technologies, but the inevitable problems that arise need to be solved. As the analog console yielded to the DAW mixer as the focal point of the control room we recognized that certain equipment was now missing that is required to actually make a studio fully functional, sonically pleasing and ergonomically sensible. When you aren’t spending all your time clicking around computer menus, you can actually concentrate on the performance, the music, and the other creative elements of what recording and mixing is supposed to be.”
Specifications
Max Input Level > +28 dBu
THD+N @+4dBu: 1KHz, unweighted, 22Hz to 22kHz < 0.0048%
THD+N @+22dBu: 1KHz, unweighted, 22Hz to 22kHz < 0.0026%
IMD @ +4dBu: < 0.0038%
IMD @ +22dBu: < 0.0021%
Crosstalk rejection: > 108dBu @ 1KHz
Noise at Unity Gain: 22Hz to 22KHz: < -86dBu
Noise at Nominal Mix Setting: 22Hz to 22KHz: < -91dBu
Frequency Response: Flat within 0.1dB from 10Hz -50kHz
Input Impedance: 25K Ohms Balanced
Output Impedance: 50 Ohms Balanced
Replacement Fuses: AMERICAS: 90-120VAC 2 Amp Slo-Blo fuse. EUROPE: 200-260VAC 1 Amp Slo-Blo fuse
Note: Dangerous Music, Inc. publishes actual measured specifications, not theoretical numbers derived from data sheets published by chip manufacturers.
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