Compressors

[Debroglie]

So What's a good high-end Compressor that some of you can recommend :lol: for making really nice tight and warm drum compression ! Avalon , Manley , DBX , TL Audio and others ?

[audioinjection]

Universal Audio, Avalon

[DJZeMig_L]

Klark Technik, Distressor!

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[FILTERZ]

This is not high end at all but for 300 quid you get a lot of bang for your buck, focusrite compounder

[Basil Rush]

Anything by Urei. LA-4's are a good bargain (http://www.funky-junk.co.uk for second hand ones...)

[skalve]

good old urei 1176.

[DJZeMig_L]

Universal Audio UAD-1 Studio Pak! ;)

eehehhe


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[John Vella]

Looks like this guy has some money to spare....

lend us some of it?

:lol:

-j

[networkacid]

Another cheapy that sounds as good as the big boys is the FMR Audio RNC1173 - I know a lot of people that rave about this.

[FILTERZ]

Another cheapy that sounds as good as the big boys is the FMR Audio RNC1173 - I know a lot of people that rave about this.

:love: its not called the really nice compressor for nothing :love:

[Basil Rush]

dunno if the RNC is much more exciting than the waves ones tho?

[DJZeMig_L]

getting a UAD-1 is exactly the oposite of spending lots 'o money... U get top notch quality for a fration of the price of the hardware counterpart... also 4 my current setup/ life it's sooooooooo much easy 2 have it in software... no more taking notes of knob position, rewiring, cabling, space, etc...

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[dulash]

yeah, for sure but iff the money is there why not a high end tube compressor?

[DJZeMig_L]

1000 Euros get's ya fo*k all in the high-end... A serious compressor is lil' bit more expensive if u know what I mean...

The all UAD-1 is around 1000 € and u can use a few High-End comp.

Is it better ... NO... but I would rather have 16 realllllly good comp/ eq on a track... bounce and then have some more... than only 1 amazing comp.
which can do wonders 4 sure but if I got my tracks and need 2 do DA conversion---- comp --- AD Conver. 2 bring it back in... sonically & pratically speaking speaking the gains are marginal and the work is hyper! :(

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[dulash]

I agree!!

but still the avalon is so sssexy

[Debroglie]

I agree the Avalons are sexxyyy beasts :lol: and that's preety much what I'm after especially the VT-747 SP , I don't have a lot of money like someone was assuming above, but I'm serious about my music and it's production and like most of the people on here I'll find a way to get a piece of gear I need ....... :roll:

The UAD sounds like a great package and I will definetly check it out next time I'm at my local gear shop , but I'm after a warm sound and I'm not sure if has that or not !??? and also I'd have to buy a tower to use a pci-card .

Also I agree that the Focusrite compounder is great comp. as well and quarter the price of say an Avalon or a UA comp.

[Basil Rush]

UAD definitely has pretty much the same tonal colouring as a real urei as you drive it ... so if that's the kind of thing you mean by warmer sound then it's worth checking out. it's much better than the urei emulations made by bomb factory for digidesign.

[DJZeMig_L]

Without a PCI u are preatty much limited 2 a Powercore Firewire, The plug ins are good and u can get a few of the same of the UAD, but as a standard is a weaker package!

PS - TC is terminating a lot of software and moving it's full task into the powercore platform (no piracy there so...).. It's a sad but not surprising move!

Z

[audioinjection]

I just bought a Focusrite Platinum Penta Compressor, it sounds sooooooo nice! It wasn't too expensive either, for the brand and sound, its a freakin deal!

[serox]

sorry, noob queston, how does the compressor work, why is it needed?

[DJZeMig_L]

geeee U have loads of old post about this...

Basically a compressor is a tool that will tame yer loudest bits in a sound, thus making it more "quiet and stable"... so basically u have a signal that as loads more consistency of levels, by consequence u have a louder average level (the way we hear is by "rms", meaning average, so basically u don't hear variations in level up into + - 3db).

Take the example of a band with a singer that has a vary unsteady vocal level... sometimes the voice will overpower the other instruments, others will be overpowered (ie not heard over the mess of other sounds)... this is a perfect example of why u need a compressor!

Image a compressor like some1 grabbing the level fader and turning it down everytime u speak 2 loud then bringing the level back in with yer voice is back 2 it's normal level...

of course u can compensate and control how much it brings the levels down, faster or slower, etc...

after the comp stage u get a make up gain, which means that u can make the sound louder (because a compressor does turn down yer volume but as u don't have 2 worry so much about levels going everywhere, u can the crack it up again)

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[Evil G]

i'm surprised nobody mentioned TFPro - handmade in the UK optical compressors made by Ted Fletcher, former designer for Joe Meek.

i have the P5, and i dig it. the P8 (Edward the Compressor) is getting awesome reviews elsewhere.

[DJZeMig_L]

true true.. never had a chance 2 try 1 though :(

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[djvartan]

Klark Technik, Distressor!

Z
Distressor i second that!
they kick asssssssssss

[sash]

what about the tl audio 5052?

[Basil Rush]

Klark Technik, Distressor!

Z
Distressor i second that!
they kick asssssssssss

You got one? I wanna hear one...