Dialog. The focal point of any movie, television show, documentary, or for that matter, any creative media production involving the spoken word. Add to the mix a sweeping musical score, dozens of foley effects, and plenty more – and it becomes clear the job of dialog mixing is a tall order. After all, if you can’t hear what the actors are saying, why watch it at all!!

The SA-2 Dialog Processor is based on hardware originally conceived by Academy Award winning re-recording mixer Mike Minkler and used on over 100 major motion pictures. The SA-2 is designed to improve the overall sound of recorded speech. But the SA-2 is not just for dialog. It's equally useful for vocals, and is a great tool for adjusting the timbre of any track, a reliable de-esser, and a fine multi-frequency compressor, in our completely biased opinion.

Shift

Adjust all five SA-2 band frequencies up or down as much as one octave from the original Emmy Award winning settings.

Range

Adjust the amount of overall processing from the SA-2 without having to adjust band thresholds individually. Range can be used to increase SA-2 attenuation by up to 50% more than the original design.

Monitor

The signals being removed by the SA-2 processing can be auditioned by enabling the Monitor button just beneath the Output gain control.

“The McDSP SA-2 is really great and easy to use and amazing on dialogue. Anybody would be a fool not to use it.”

Onnalee Blank Game of Thrones, Girls, Moonlight, Apollo 18

Features

-Five independent bands of strategic active equalization

-Multiple process modes for a variety of applications

-Unique signal reduction metering

-Double precision processing

-Zero latency

-Collection of presets from award winning mix engineers

-Mono and stereo versions

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Tame Harsh Vocals

Vocals are almost always the focal point of any production, so it goes without saying that they need to sound great!

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Shift

Adjust all five SA-2 band frequencies up or down as much as one octave from the original Emmy Award winning settings.

Signal Reduction Meters

Five active EQ bands are extremely useful in not only showing when the SA-2 is affecting the track, but by how much and by which bands.

Monitor

The signals being removed by the SA-2 processing can be auditioned by enabling the Monitor button just beneath the Output gain control.

Range

Adjust the amount of overall processing from the SA-2 without having to adjust band thresholds individually. Range can be used to increase SA-2 attenuation by up to 50% more than the original design.

Mode Controls

The SA-2 has 3 ballistics options (Gentle, normal, assault) to control the rate of attack and release of the active EQ.

Active EQ Bands/Threshold

The active equalizers use their band threshold to determine at what signal level the active equalizer begins to update its response.

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