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SPL Transient Designer 2
 Sound Performance Labs (SPL) make very nice kit. This little beauty, the 2 channel Transient Designer (4 channel also available) basically takes a sound and allows you to adjust the attack and decay of it. Two knobs per channel, unbalanced in and out on 3/4" jacks analogue processing per channel.
That's all it does. But it does it in a pretty cool way. The sound goes in, an envelope is created of the attack and decay. That envelope is then adjusted according to the algorithms in the box - you can both increase or decrease the attack and/or decay independently . It can morph sounds dramatically, and can rescue things such as a sound with too much reverb on it. Very clever and simplicity itself.
Costs around £300 new, but you can pick them up second hand for not very much at all. Every studio should have one.
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