Black Lion Audio Bluey 500 FET Limiting Amplifier

Your Very Own Bluey Experienced recording engineers are familiar with the concept of “happy accidents” — those once-in-a-blue-moon moments that ignite spontaneous magic in your recordings. You can’t plan them — they’re organic, comprised of sheer randomness or even bone-headed mistakes. It’s the guitarist getting caught in the wrong key (“modal jazz!”); the wrong track patched into the sidechain (“Grammy-winning engineering!”); singers riffing when they thought it was just a run-through (“pure poetic brilliance!”). The same audio gods sometimes smile down upon a piece of vintage gear. Through decades of repair and maintenance, some units seem to improve with time. The scarcity of original parts forces techs to deviate from the original design, unwittingly creating a one-of-a-kind mod that sounds amazing. Such is renowned mix engineer Chris Lord-Alge’s prized 1176, which he affectionately calls “Bluey.” Chris wanted more channels of this very special limiter, and he reached out to the