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roman.i · Post by **roman.i** » Thu Aug 10, 2023 8:58 pm

Still searching for a good go-to compressor.
Considering pulsar 78.
Need to check Arouser as well, but don't like the Cloud ilok thing.

DMG68 · Post by **DMG68** » Thu Aug 10, 2023 9:23 pm

I like these:
Softube Tube-Tech CL 1B mkii
u-he Presswerk
Kush Silika
Kush AR-1
Really though, I find that developing my skills in mixing has done more for the end results than any tool I may use. When I was learning (still am, of course) and purchased plugins that I thought would be game changers, it turned out none of them were. Once my skills grew then the plugin I was using didn’t matter as much.

kritikon · Post by **kritikon** » Thu Aug 10, 2023 9:31 pm

For general duties - stock Cubase ones.
For clinical mix duties - TDR Kotelnikov
For hw (especially basses) LA4C.

Your DAW will likely have perfectly reasonable compressors in it for what you need most of the time. There's quite a bit of fairy dust placebo going on with plugin compression for bog-standard light compression. You'll struggle to hear any difference between most compressors when all you're doing is a dB or 2 of squashing on a synth line or bass etc. Different when you're driving them hard or smashing a drum buss or mix compression though, admittedly. Possibly you need more than one question - any old compressor will do much the same job for standard channel compression. But people will likely use different compressors for different heavy duty jobs. Just saying...

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Thu Aug 10, 2023 9:38 pm

My 2023 go-to compressor is the same as it has been in every year since its release: FabFilter Pro-C. It's a great bread-n-butter compressor. I have other compressors that I prefer for flavor or specific applications (e.g., Presswerk, RenVox), but Pro-C handles most of my needs.

DanKoz · Post by **DanKoz** » Thu Aug 10, 2023 10:36 pm

PSP Impressor - extremely versatile with enameling of the most important units that are responsible for compression
AMEK Mastering Compressor - I've been testing it for several days and I can't get over the functionality and possibilities, but it's quite complicated, but it's worth learning it, because then it will sound beautiful.

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Thu Aug 10, 2023 10:49 pm

Still using Tone Projects Unisum most of the time.. but lately I've been using quite a few instances of Acustica Audio Sunray. That compressor is really weird in a strange and polite way. It can't do snappy/clicky well so it's unsuitable for those tasks.

Scrubbing Monkeys · Post by **Scrubbing Monkeys** » Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:01 am

I seem to be reaching for Klanghelm Mjuc alot lately. TDR kotelnikov is always around also.

JerGoertz · Post by **JerGoertz** » Fri Aug 11, 2023 3:26 am

bmanic wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 10:49 pm Still using Tone Projects Unisum most of the time.. but lately I've been using quite a few instances of Acustica Audio Sunray. That compressor is really weird in a strange and polite way. It can't do snappy/clicky well so it's unsuitable for those tasks.

Do you find Unisum can do snappy/clicky?

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Fri Aug 11, 2023 9:54 am

JerGoertz wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 3:26 am
bmanic wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 10:49 pm Still using Tone Projects Unisum most of the time.. but lately I've been using quite a few instances of Acustica Audio Sunray. That compressor is really weird in a strange and polite way. It can't do snappy/clicky well so it's unsuitable for those tasks.
Do you find Unisum can do snappy/clicky?

No, actually it can't. It's too smooth to create really aggressively clicky tones. I mainly use it for enhancing or controlling the groove of a source (which is 90% of all my compression usage when mixing).

To "artificially" get some clicks or blocky chunky transients you need something else. Let me get back to you about this particular task as I very seldom find myself intentionally adding clicks to transients as everything is so clicky in today's music to begin with.

roman.i · Post by **roman.i** » Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:19 pm

DMG68 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 9:23 pm Kush Silika

Is it iLok cloud or standard iLok?
Can't find any information on the developer site.

JerGoertz · Post by **JerGoertz** » Fri Aug 11, 2023 3:58 pm

Standard iLok from when I got it maybe a year ago

mrcleats · Post by **mrcleats** » Fri Aug 11, 2023 4:07 pm

NI Supercharger GT - dead easy to dial in, bags of character and colour if you want, or not if you don't. Works on everything - works on a track, works on a bus.

It's the shizzle. One of my very favourite plugins of any type.

Edit: NI Supercharger (non-GT) is free with Komplete start and is right up there too - same easy workflow, it's great, and uses a bit less CPU.

vitocorleone123 · Post by **vitocorleone123** » Sun Aug 13, 2023 2:23 pm

SSL Bus2
Overloud LA
Trackcomp 2
ProC2

Depends on the source.

Bombadil · Post by **Bombadil** » Sun Aug 13, 2023 2:24 pm

IK's Fairchild 670 and their LA-2A. Starting to mess with their Distressor emulation.

ralfrobert · Post by **ralfrobert** » Sun Aug 13, 2023 2:40 pm

Presswerk right now.

Your go-to compressor in 2023?