I think that some of use would like to hear some samples of what a beautiful unit like this sounds like!!
Thanks
Here's a track which I played on back in winter 1981:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzvrIaH4lf4Points to note: the studio didn't have any digital reverb (it was before digi-verb was commonplace) so the only reverb you hear in the unit is EMT plate, Pre-delayed EMT plate, and a stone room, squashed to bejeezus with a Compex, with the compex gate shutting off the tail, making the characteristic 'nonlinear' sound.
The Compexed-reverb is on the snare drum. It's also doing some SERIOUS compression. There are three basses on the tune. One is compexed, the other two were 1176'd... I think. The heavily plate-reverbed fretless in the middle-8 is Compexed, I think, but it's strangely EQ'ed for midrange 'cut-through', so it's really not a classic example of compex 'strength'. -the snare is pretty classic, though.
NOTHING can "GRAB" a big-strong-sounding bass guitar and HOLD it in a mix, LOCK-ITS-ASS-DOWN-TIGHT, like a Compex.
Believe that.
Keith