My New Toy

cgarges · Post by **cgarges** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:35 pm

I have to gush. After a six month search for one, I finally took delivery of a GML 8900 limiter today. Man, am I psyched. This thing is so insane. I am astounded by the degree of manipulation of which it is capable. Sorry to flaunt, but I had to.

(This one isn't mine, but this is what it looks like.)

As you were...

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

Mane1234 · Post by **Mane1234** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:22 pm

I'd be flaunting it too if that were mine...saweeeeeeeeeeeet. Happy squashin...

asylumdigital · Post by **asylumdigital** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:22 pm

Ahhhh, so you found one!!!!

Spiderhead69 · Post by **Spiderhead69** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:26 pm

cgarges · Post by **cgarges** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:27 pm

asylumdigital wrote:Ahhhh, so you found one!!!!

FINALLY! Thanks to you and Shawn for picking up my Federals (which actually went to buy my wife's wedding ring) and to Tyler for buying my Allen & Heath console, which made this really do-able.

Love it!

How are you digging the Federal, by the way?

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

asylumdigital · Post by **asylumdigital** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:29 pm

I love it. Very cool!

I am glad my little contribution helped...

cgarges · Post by **cgarges** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:30 pm

asylumdigital wrote:I am glad my little contribution helped...

And I REALLY appreciate it.

CG

joel hamilton · Post by **joel hamilton** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:02 am

That is AWESOME, chris. A serious chunk of gear... many more for you in '07 I hope!

Congrats on all things considered!

JGriffin · Post by **JGriffin** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:28 am

Very nice. GML gear is cool. I really enjoy my 2020 Input channel. And you can't beat the brightly colored knobs.

mjau · Post by **mjau** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:05 am

She's a real looker, Chris. Congrats!

JamesHE · Post by **JamesHE** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:13 am

Congrats Chris!

mjau wrote:She's a real looker, Chris. Congrats!

Wait, are you talking about his wife or the limiter?

What's up with the new avatar? Don't make me go to myspace to see your nekid abdomen!

sonicmook56 · Post by **sonicmook56** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:03 pm

Nice.

moogplayer · Post by **moogplayer** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:07 pm

A new line in your studio

"Hold on -- let me adjust the Crest Factor....(everyone) ahhhhhh..."

mjau · Post by **mjau** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:28 pm

JamesHE wrote:Congrats Chris!

mjau wrote:She's a real looker, Chris. Congrats!
Wait, are you talking about his wife or the limiter?

What's up with the new avatar? Don't make me go to myspace to see your nekid abdomen!

The GML, man, the GML! Though knowing Chris, I'm sure his wife is a wonderful person.
At your request, I've brought the avatar back.

If I may be so simple to ask, what's so special about the GML? I've never been around one.

cgarges · Post by **cgarges** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:35 pm

moogplayer wrote:A new line in your studio

"Hold on -- let me adjust the Crest Factor....(everyone) ahhhhhh..."

I like it. Actually the last time I used one, the band got a kick out of adjusting the release hysteresis.

mjau wrote:At your request, I've brought the avatar back.

Ahhhhh! You and Leopold...

mjau wrote:If I may be so simple to ask, what's so special about the GML?

It's capable of ridiculously transparent compression. It's also capable of really extreme and very aggressive compression, but it's amazing what you can get it to do without hearing it.

I was goofing around with it yesterday and listening to some program material through it. The meters follow actual gain, so if you have the make-up gain adding stuff above zero, the starting point for metering reduction moves up above zero. So, after screwing around with it a bit, I got it really making the RMS louder without completely destroying the transients from the drumkit. Nice. I looked at the meters and they're looking like their knocking off maybe three of four dB. "Not bad," I think.

Then, the band drops out for the last couple of lines of the song, which are just acoustic guitar and vocal, and the stuff suddenly gets about 10dB louder. I realized that the meters were showing a few dB of reduction below zero, but I had the makeup gain up, so the starting point for reduction was actually more like +8!(instead of zero.) So the compressor was really doing more like 10 or 12dB without sounding like it was doing anything. Crazy.

It's really complicated to set up, especially for program material, but that's part of what makes it work so well. It'll take me a while to really get a grip on it, but it's a pretty astounding piece. I'll bring it with me the next time I have a chance to do something at Tony's place.

If you want to sort of hear what it does, get Tony to play you some of the Griffy Rhodes disc. That's the only compressor on the lead vocal. We didn't use any compression in the tracking stage and it was nailing a good 8-10dB on the loud stuff during the mix.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

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