Hello and thank you for your responses!
Well, im very glad you agree to my conclusions. It would be a pleasure to go for mods, but my first intention is to calibrate and verify my basic units behaviour, in order to safely evaluate it and also be sure that the meter follows the sound as closely. Could you provide me some search terms related to the pointers you refer mr Jakob?
I found an osciloscope software which seems to be pretty helpful for audio signals, but what i still ignore is how to take references. For example how to calculate 0 db of threshold (should it be right in the middle?). I'll probably set unity in my mixer and go on from there, I generally try sinewaves and pink noise to a/b compare the bypass/active mode.
Also, what i have observed is that max compression (1:10 Ratio/Short Attack/Long Release) is around 18-20 db of dynamic range, which is close to what the meter should read max. Is this a standard value, or it depends to input signal factors? Could we characterise that as the maximum limiting abillity of the build?
My last question has to do with the similarities/differences of the gssl and the original ssl 4000 buscomp. As you can imagine i dont have access to an original unit. Are there other behavioural or audio differences, other than the single/dual SC vca and the DBX/THAT vcas? I imagine that the change of the vcas alone can be a big "difference", but what i'm generally trying to pinpoint, is some criteria for a more "vintage" build in the future.
thank you all!
Regards.
(PS. ill be posting some higher quality audio material soon. is there any pack of files that contain dry/ original ssl compressed files? This could be a very good start for making the same setting and observing how close it is to the original and other builders units.)
Well, im very glad you agree to my conclusions. It would be a pleasure to go for mods, but my first intention is to calibrate and verify my basic units behaviour, in order to safely evaluate it and also be sure that the meter follows the sound as closely. Could you provide me some search terms related to the pointers you refer mr Jakob?
I found an osciloscope software which seems to be pretty helpful for audio signals, but what i still ignore is how to take references. For example how to calculate 0 db of threshold (should it be right in the middle?). I'll probably set unity in my mixer and go on from there, I generally try sinewaves and pink noise to a/b compare the bypass/active mode.
Also, what i have observed is that max compression (1:10 Ratio/Short Attack/Long Release) is around 18-20 db of dynamic range, which is close to what the meter should read max. Is this a standard value, or it depends to input signal factors? Could we characterise that as the maximum limiting abillity of the build?
My last question has to do with the similarities/differences of the gssl and the original ssl 4000 buscomp. As you can imagine i dont have access to an original unit. Are there other behavioural or audio differences, other than the single/dual SC vca and the DBX/THAT vcas? I imagine that the change of the vcas alone can be a big "difference", but what i'm generally trying to pinpoint, is some criteria for a more "vintage" build in the future.
thank you all!
Regards.
(PS. ill be posting some higher quality audio material soon. is there any pack of files that contain dry/ original ssl compressed files? This could be a very good start for making the same setting and observing how close it is to the original and other builders units.)
