Hi all,
after more than six months of development DC8C is finally available.



DC8C is one of the most flexible compressors around.
While making a lot of different compression styles possible, it's general nature may be described as: clear, smooth, open, distinct.
The main goal while designing DC8C was to get a very clean compressor action without unwanted and often almost unevitable artefacts/distortion. This way you can achieve almost invisible compression for your most demanding mastering sessions, when you want to avoid coloration.

If you aim for colour you can choose between two saturation models.

DC8C offers some features, you probably haven't seen yet in a compressor, for instance:

morphing between FeedForward and FeedBack compression characteristics.
PRE COMP control to delay the attack stage. This way you can leave transients 100% intact.
a zero latency brickwall limiting mode.
tweakable program dependency for both attack AND release times.

if you're not in the mood for tweaking, DC8C offers an additional EASY mode, which lets you get results which just a few controls. EASY mode has 4 different compression styles to choose from.

From opto style, peak compression, RMS compression, Feedback, Feedforward compression (and everything inbetween) to negative ratios, zero latency brickwall limiting, from snappy transient treatment to smooth transient rounding - everything is possible.

For sound examples, charts, manual go to

http://www.Klanghelm.com/DC8C.html

DC8C costs 20€ (intro offer lasts at least until the end of march).

Thanks for reading

Tony
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Bought it immediately, already in my account. Downloading…

Thanks, Tony!

/Joachim

Congrats on release and good luck with sales

Wow! I'm impressed...just to be clear, I haven't purchased nor demoed yet...but from reading the manual, to the artwork, to the thought that went into this thing, to the comprehensive parameters included, and the few sound examples on the website...hats off for your efforts! It appears that some serious work went into this, and I should add, produced with flair and style. Best of luck with this and future products.

Impulse purchase

Looks interesting , pre attack and negative ratios plus morphing mode

excellent!

Looks gorgeous. Anyone compared the CPU hit of similarly flexible compressors? I'm thinking about COMPassion and Bombardier, for example... although the latter probably has less options.

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*dances with wolves*
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BOUGHT
Can you give us the EXACT settings to make the DC1A sound? It is a REALLY good starting point. A DC1A preset would be great (in the VST presets). I havent got my download yet so if this is already included then just ignore me, I'm an idiot.

DC8C has two modes, basic and expert. In basic mode you have 4 different compressors called "smooth", "punch", "snap" and "crush". These 4 compressors behave differently and only exhibit common controls you find in any other compressor. The difference is some of the "extended" features you find in the expert mode are hidden but they're interacting "behind the scenes" to provide unique behaviors for each one of them.

If you want to have DC1A in DC8C just click on "punch" in basic mode. It's pretty close. "Relaxed" is closer to "smooth" in DC8C.

Bought it too. Waiting for the link

yeah, what Mercado said.
It's a good idea to include a DC1A preset in DC8C. I will do that for the next update. It's not possible to EXACTLY recreate DC1A, but I'd say they can be 90% identical.

Here's another thing you could try out to achieve a similar, punchy compression style:

EXPERT mode,
attack and release to minimum
program dependency (release ) around +12
GR smoothing around 65-70

now just use the RMS time to adjust the time response of the compressor,

Tony

Wow! Just wow! It's the compressor of my wet/dry feed forward/backward dreams. And pretty too. And cheap. It's a trifecta compressa. And I'm in a betting mood. Can't wait to take this beauty out on the track(s).

What will be the final retail price, just curious?