Odd compressors?

[joel hamilton]

Who has found any cool weird compressors?

What do they do that you like?

I am FULLY digging the "bread box" made by "bradb" on this board... I mixed a record that had some splashy room mics and that thing totally took care of the job. Amazingly weird.

I will put up a picture when i take one....

Here is another cool one:
the Gates 6144 stereo tube limiter.

[tubemonkey35]

I just traded my dept. of commerce CA-1589; I already miss it.

Though..... a Studio Electronics Caaswell c2s is on the way

[inverseroom]

the "bread box" made by "bradb" on this board

Wazzat?

[joel hamilton]

I just traded my dept. of commerce CA-1589; I already miss it.

Though..... a Studio Electronics Caaswell c2s is on the way

I told you i would buy the Dept of commerce!!!!

AAARRRGGGHHH!

[tubemonkey35]

I posted a trade for it! I wanted an 1176 or Distressor in return. I can't wait to get the Caswell c2s in hear though 2 1176's in one box.

[Everybody's X]

I have a CRL Dynafex "stereo gain controller"
A Texar audio prism
and a harris MSP 90

so far the thing I like about them is that they fill up the racks around my board (I havent hooked them up yet)

[mjau]

My f-ed up Rocktron 310g rack compressor is a beast for fuzzed out, nasty, odd-harmonic bass. It's the only reason I keep that thing plugged in.

[joel hamilton]

the "bread box" made by "bradb" on this board

Wazzat?

It is a weird custom jobbie, based on a couple of FET compressor pedals with deliberately cheap I/O xformers that saturate a lot. It is Optical....

Still working out some bugs with it, but it is pretty amazing....

[luckybastard]

are they eventually going to be for sale?

[joel hamilton]

are they eventually going to be for sale?

I dont think so. You would have to ask Bradb.

[blakbeltjonez]

i have a bit of an oddball that i've never been able to figure out much info on.... it's an Allen & Heath Feed Forward Delay Limiter..



it's been kicking around my closet for a while, has Sowter input and output transformers. i picked it up for somehting like $20 a few years ago but have never bothered to put it through it's paces. my guess is that it was some kind of broadcast limiter since it has some kind of old bucket brigade analog delay chip inside.

anyone ever run across one of these?

[joel hamilton]

i have a bit of an oddball that i've never been able to figure out much info on.... it's an Allen & Heath Feed Forward Delay Limiter..



it's been kicking around my closet for a while, has Sowter input and output transformers. i picked it up for somehting like $20 a few years ago but have never bothered to put it through it's paces. my guess is that it was some kind of broadcast limiter since it has some kind of old bucket brigade analog delay chip inside.

anyone ever run across one of these?

Wanna sell it?

I will put it through its paces for sure..... see, I have a problem. I buy weird compressors. ALL THE TIME>...

[crying] there, I said it.

Anyway, for real though, if it works, and you want to sell it, PM me. Or try it out and tell everyone how it is!!!!

On a different note:

GATES again, the solid statesman. Totally fun.

[r0ck1r0ck2]

ummm
no picture....but there's this
DBX 128....

40 bucks...
ugly as hell

drum smasher....

[syrupcore]

Joel, how many compressors are you up to and how mamy friggin points does your patchbay have? when will you collect them all into your best-seller "Attack & Release: The Complete Compressor"? If you already own them all, whaddayou care what the book does to the ebay market?

with a cd... I'd scoop it up.


will

[blakbeltjonez]

i have a bit of an oddball that i've never been able to figure out much info on.... it's an Allen & Heath Feed Forward Delay Limiter..



it's been kicking around my closet for a while, has Sowter input and output transformers. i picked it up for somehting like $20 a few years ago but have never bothered to put it through it's paces. my guess is that it was some kind of broadcast limiter since it has some kind of old bucket brigade analog delay chip inside.

anyone ever run across one of these?

Wanna sell it?

I will put it through its paces for sure..... see, I have a problem. I buy weird compressors. ALL THE TIME>...

[crying] there, I said it.

Anyway, for real though, if it works, and you want to sell it, PM me. Or try it out and tell everyone how it is!!!!

On a different note:

GATES again, the solid statesman. Totally fun.

i would sell it, but i got a call from your therapist this morning and he advised me in the strongest possible terms not to be your enabler..... said something about an intervention coming up...

i'll give the A&H a shot... gotta make a couple of pin 3 hot XLR to TRS cables to interface it properly into my setup, i have just been too lazy up till now to do anything but move it arround my closet at home.


back to the topic at hand....ditto on the dbx 128, nice on drums and especially kick, it puts a "point" on the attack portion of the kick in a way that non-old dbx comps don't. can be a bit noisy though.... also, dbx 164 one knobber stereo comp is great too for certain things