Funkybot's Evil Twin wrote:I didn't mean IK got the distortion right...I meant IK didn't nail the "finer details" in those emulations, which you can't say of the Fairchild or Pultec, where they did emulate those finer details IMO.
Why would they "model the finer details" on the Fairchild and Pultec plugins but not the newer 1176 and LA2A plugins?
I think we are all buying into the marketing of how these plugins are made a little too much. IK could be using the same core compression algorithm over and over and just changing the shape of the compression curve and the attack/releae curves. And then changing the distortion a little. "derp we modeleed the hardware"
Who knows how they make these things. I'm assuming the picture they take of the geeky looking guy standing next to an 1176 with a oscilloscope hooked up too it has little or nothing to do with how the plugin actually gets made.
The point is none of us know, except for the guy who wrote the algorithm, who probably wrote it at his own home and emailed it to IK when he was done.
Just use your ears guys.