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rhodes54 · Post by **rhodes54** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:36 am

Hi all,

I am looking for a free or low-cost VST/DX clone from waves C1 compressor/gate.
I have been working over 5 years on a virtual orban optimod-sounding broadcastchain and I now want to replace all used plugins for free or low-cost plugins to make the chain available for as everybody who's interested in the chain.

Any ideas? Thanks a lot!

Manc Chris · Post by **Manc Chris** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:12 am

rhodes54 wrote:Hi all,

I am looking for a free or low-cost VST/DX clone from waves C1 compressor/gate.
I have been working over 5 years on a virtual orban optimod-sounding broadcastchain and I now want to replace all used plugins for free or low-cost plugins to make the chain available for as everybody who's interested in the chain.

Any ideas? Thanks a lot!

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1622.html

defjamm · Post by **defjamm** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:34 am

^^that's an L1-clone, he seems to need C1.

rhodes54 · Post by **rhodes54** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:46 am

defjamm wrote:^^that's an L1-clone, he seems to need C1.

Yes, i need the C1. There are enough peaklimiters available.

fgimian · Post by **fgimian** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:21 am

closest I can think of (without the Gate, just the Expander) is the lovely Kjaerhus GCO-1 and it sounds a lot better than the Waves C1 in my opinion.

Cheers
Fots

Barbarossa · Post by **Barbarossa** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:50 am

If you need the sidechain capabilities of the C1 (and i guess you'll need them for Optimod-like processing), i'm afraid, there is no other comp capable of that.

dramsenik · Post by **dramsenik** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:45 am

closest I can think of (without the Gate, just the Expander) is the lovely Kjaerhus GCO-1 and it sounds a lot better than the Waves C1 in my opinion

Closest ????????????????????

what you compare:
The GCO-1 is a versatile quality compressor and expander plugin modeled after some of the best analog compressors

With C1 which is well known as a transparent comp !

I don't know GCO-1 but if compared to anything else colorwise from waves it would be with RenComp (which has no gate...)

dramsenik · Post by **dramsenik** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:49 am

The fact is that C1 is so old.....

...and so unrivaled also...

daverich · Post by **daverich** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 11:14 am

sonitus compressor is pretty good.

Kind regards

Dave Rich

advaya · Post by **advaya** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 11:18 am

Yep... The Sonitus compressor sounds awfully close...

And it even looks similar!

dramsenik · Post by **dramsenik** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:23 pm

sounds awfully close

confirmed...

rhodes54 · Post by **rhodes54** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 3:29 pm

soundpalace wrote:closest I can think of (without the Gate, just the Expander) is the lovely Kjaerhus GCO-1 and it sounds a lot better than the Waves C1 in my opinion.

Cheers
Fots

What I need to do is: split te signal in two bands, then limit the high frequencies a bit and put te expander behind that (so I don;t need the gate, just the expander). this way the expander will function as noise reducer and I can tell you: that works pretty good!
But I agree: It's time to leave that good ol' waves c1 alone...

Waves C1 Clone?