Now I've built a bunch (gaggle ?) of compressors, I have lots to choose from ..
Ross, g1176s, gSSLs, dLA2As, dOACs, Weaks, Poormen 660s and soon to be available, Fairchild style and 175/Gates/RCA style. As well as a (dwindling) bunch of commercial units TC Electronics and Yamaha digital, ART hybrid vca/opto/tube.
And so, given that compression is obviously a mania for me in the studio - vocals, guitars, bass, drums, mix stems and mix
I've recently come to see that there's only one thing better than a good compressor ..
And that is TWO good compressors
(plug-ins need not apply!)
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Seriously, I've been tracking some guitars with my diy channel strip of Neve+Pultec+1176 THEN into an LA2A
and I think I've gone nuts The sound is so good. It's like the LA2A picks up where the channel strip leaves off.
Where alone, the channel strip pushed hard runs out of puff .. just a little .. and the LA2A kind of lifts it onto a magic carpet of solid, overextended glissando compression and just runs away with it
Luckily the noise floors of the various bits of my chain are pretty good and the overall hum at good strong levels is very acceptable.
Probably around -63 dBu or so 'at rest' with a guitar plugged in and volume turned down.
Anything below-62dBu is not really noticable, even in silence.
For a resultant output probably at +10dBu at full belt under GR. Which would have to be at least 15dB or so all up!
It's so good I am reaching for and getting the music of Delaney and Bonnie.
So much stuff there it's insane!
Banging away on my jazzmaster with noiseless pups in casual, effortless, sustained non somniference
while on a break at my bench makes me realise,
I am truly 'a fortunate man'.
8)
Ross, g1176s, gSSLs, dLA2As, dOACs, Weaks, Poormen 660s and soon to be available, Fairchild style and 175/Gates/RCA style. As well as a (dwindling) bunch of commercial units TC Electronics and Yamaha digital, ART hybrid vca/opto/tube.
And so, given that compression is obviously a mania for me in the studio - vocals, guitars, bass, drums, mix stems and mix
I've recently come to see that there's only one thing better than a good compressor ..
And that is TWO good compressors
(plug-ins need not apply!)
----
Seriously, I've been tracking some guitars with my diy channel strip of Neve+Pultec+1176 THEN into an LA2A
and I think I've gone nuts The sound is so good. It's like the LA2A picks up where the channel strip leaves off.
Where alone, the channel strip pushed hard runs out of puff .. just a little .. and the LA2A kind of lifts it onto a magic carpet of solid, overextended glissando compression and just runs away with it
Luckily the noise floors of the various bits of my chain are pretty good and the overall hum at good strong levels is very acceptable.
Probably around -63 dBu or so 'at rest' with a guitar plugged in and volume turned down.
Anything below-62dBu is not really noticable, even in silence.
For a resultant output probably at +10dBu at full belt under GR. Which would have to be at least 15dB or so all up!
It's so good I am reaching for and getting the music of Delaney and Bonnie.
So much stuff there it's insane!
Banging away on my jazzmaster with noiseless pups in casual, effortless, sustained non somniference
while on a break at my bench makes me realise,
I am truly 'a fortunate man'.
8)