Waves Abbey Road EMI TG12345 User Manual - page 7
Waves / Abbey Road TG12345
User Guide
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TG12345 Cassettes
The original TG12345 desk included three main sections, or three types of “cassettes” (technically
there were six types of cassettes, but only three were significant sound-wise; the other three were
utility cassettes):
1. Microphone Cassette: This section had the mic preamp, an EQ (treble + bass) section, a
dynamics section, sends + returns, a spread, a pan pot, and faders. Each cassette was
actually a stereo channel, with the option of summing the signal to mono. In TG12345 MK II,
the treble EQ was replaced with a presence EQ and the spreader was removed.
2. Group Cassette: There were two group cassettes, each containing two subgroups. Any of
the microphone cassettes could be routed to a group cassette, and multiple channels routed
from the mic cassette to the group cassette could be controlled through the group channel.
The group cassette had another dynamics section as well as a presence control (in the
TG12345 MK II, this presence control replaced the treble EQ).
3. Main Cassette: The TG12345 had five main cassettes: four feeding the tape machine (each
was a stereo cassette, for a total of eight tracks), and one for the aux stereo outputs. Each
main cassette had another presence EQ section to adjust the final output to the tape.
If you review the routing on the TG12345 plugin, you will see that you can achieve any signal flow
within the console using two instances of the plugin. A signal flow simulating a mic-cassette-to-
group-cassette flow on the TG12345 MK I can be achieved using just one instance (EQ>Dyn>Pres).
1.5 Components
WaveShell technology enables us to split Waves processors into smaller plugins, which we call
components. Having a choice of components for a particular processor gives you the flexibility to
choose the configuration best suited to your material. TG12345 includes the following components:
o
TG12345 Mono
o
TG12345 Stereo