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Post by drumsound on Sept 28, 2024 19:12:53 GMT -6
The stand out is the Audioscape 1178. Because the stand out is an 1178. You can track vocals with it, bass with it, acoustic guitar, piano, OH .... well just about anything that's a musical signal! And then you can use it to mix those signals or as a stereo bus compressor over drums OH's, Piano OH's etc. Personally, I would put it on the stereo mix bus .... which is good news as you then get to pain over which VCA and Vari-MU compressor you should buy next  +1
I believe Phill Brown frequently uses a 1178 on stereo mix bus.. That man has some ears.
Richard Dodd mixed Wildflowers into a pair of 1176s. |
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Post by drumsound on Sept 28, 2024 19:13:28 GMT -6
The Drawmer '68 should be on your list as well. Just a really good simple compressor.
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Post by Dan on Sept 28, 2024 20:17:34 GMT -6
Why does it have to be a FET? VCAs and digital are more consistent and logarithmic for better behavior and now a few manufacturers make discrete linear vcas themselves to emulate past compressors more consistently, more stable, and cleanly. Good behavior is boring. Gimme that rebellious FET schmutz! The stand out is the Audioscape 1178. Because the stand out is an 1178. You can track vocals with it, bass with it, acoustic guitar, piano, OH .... well just about anything that's a musical signal! And then you can use it to mix those signals or as a stereo bus compressor over drums OH's, Piano OH's etc. Personally, I would put it on the stereo mix bus .... which is good news as you then get to pain over which VCA and Vari-MU compressor you should buy next The ADR Compex would like to have a word! Yeah but l and r being different is rough. ADR compex with the balancing transformers would be killer. The Daking auto release is the same as the compex one. |
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Post by theshea on Sept 29, 2024 1:27:58 GMT -6
i had the drawmer 1978 for a while. versatile unit with the comp/sat/eq sections. but i sold it because i wanted a bit more character. the drawmer was a bit to clean, the saturation section is more a distortion section - no transformer/harmonics. but its a good unit for drums as you can really smash em (theres a mix button).
i ordered a stam audio 33609 clone instead. waiting for delivery …
you could try sgereo comps on analog access. they have a lot. even a free daking comp.
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Post by thehightenor on Sept 29, 2024 3:03:39 GMT -6
i had the drawmer 1978 for a while. versatile unit with the comp/sat/eq sections. but i sold it because i wanted a bit more character. the drawmer was a bit to clean, the saturation section is more a distortion section - no transformer/harmonics. but its a good unit for drums as you can really smash em (theres a mix button). i ordered a stam audio 33609 clone instead. waiting for delivery … you could try sgereo comps on analog access. they have a lot. even a free daking comp. I’ve tried the free Daking comp on Access Analog. For my taste I thought is was very bland and boring. I wondered why it was free to use. Buy hey, one man’s boring is another man’s clean control. |
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Post by theshea on Sept 29, 2024 4:10:19 GMT -6
i had the drawmer 1978 for a while. versatile unit with the comp/sat/eq sections. but i sold it because i wanted a bit more character. the drawmer was a bit to clean, the saturation section is more a distortion section - no transformer/harmonics. but its a good unit for drums as you can really smash em (theres a mix button). i ordered a stam audio 33609 clone instead. waiting for delivery … you could try sgereo comps on analog access. they have a lot. even a free daking comp. I’ve tried the free Daking comp on Access Analog. For my taste I thought is was very bland and boring. I wondered why it was free to use. Buy hey, one man’s boring is another man’s clean control. yeah its nothing special but works, auto release makes it almost like a one knob comp. so setting it up for some gentle RMS rise is easy. if i remember correctly the free version is the transformerless one. theres also a transformer version. |
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Post by robo on Sept 29, 2024 9:19:51 GMT -6
I’ve tried the free Daking comp on Access Analog. For my taste I thought is was very bland and boring. I wondered why it was free to use. Buy hey, one man’s boring is another man’s clean control. yeah its nothing special but works, auto release makes it almost like a one knob comp. so setting it up for some gentle RMS rise is easy. if i remember correctly the free version is the transformerless one. theres also a transformer version. That’s the Daking VCA comp, different from the Fet we’re talking about in this thread. I had it for about a year, and I think it’s a perfect utility compressor if all you want is compression. The fet is also clean, but has a way of making things bigger and richer just by passing through. |
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Post by Dan on Sept 29, 2024 11:09:57 GMT -6
i had the drawmer 1978 for a while. versatile unit with the comp/sat/eq sections. but i sold it because i wanted a bit more character. the drawmer was a bit to clean, the saturation section is more a distortion section - no transformer/harmonics. but its a good unit for drums as you can really smash em (theres a mix button). i ordered a stam audio 33609 clone instead. waiting for delivery … you could try sgereo comps on analog access. they have a lot. even a free daking comp. I’ve tried the free Daking comp on Access Analog. For my taste I thought is was very bland and boring. I wondered why it was free to use. Buy hey, one man’s boring is another man’s clean control. why should it introduce deliberate distortion beyond the harmonics of gain reduction as a compressor? |
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Post by thehightenor on Sept 29, 2024 11:43:29 GMT -6
yeah its nothing special but works, auto release makes it almost like a one knob comp. so setting it up for some gentle RMS rise is easy. if i remember correctly the free version is the transformerless one. theres also a transformer version. That’s the Daking VCA comp, different from the Fet we’re talking about in this thread. I had it for about a year, and I think it’s a perfect utility compressor if all you want is compression. The fet is also clean, but has a way of making things bigger and richer just by passing through. Ah ok thanks - in which case I've never used their FET comp. |
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Post by mrcel0 on Sept 29, 2024 12:31:21 GMT -6
I’ve tried the free Daking comp on Access Analog. For my taste I thought is was very bland and boring. I wondered why it was free to use. Buy hey, one man’s boring is another man’s clean control. why should it introduce deliberate distortion beyond the harmonics of gain reduction as a compressor? distortion is pleasing |
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Post by kumoparty on Sept 29, 2024 14:07:58 GMT -6
The Drawmer '68 should be on your list as well. Just a really good simple compressor. Noted. Thanks Wow, the Compex hasn't been on my radar. Do you use one? The Q2 reissue looks interesting. |
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