KVR Audio

Vkingo · Post by **Vkingo** » Thu May 25, 2006 5:38 am

So I finnally got into the whole "side-chain" thing, and I'm about to fork out the $$$ for Kjaerhus' GUP-1 but before I do is there any other SC compressor out there I should check out? the TC one seems to be discontinued and I'm not interested in a Waves bundle. Does Voxengo make one?

Shifrin · Post by **Shifrin** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:33 am

I believe Voxengo's Crunchessor supports sidechaining

Shif.

VanLichten · Post by **VanLichten** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:42 am

Crunchessor; also Vanilla Compressor has a sidechain; as good as these both, and free.

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Thu May 25, 2006 10:56 am

Crunchessor is a really good alternative to the Kjaerhus compressor.

Vkingo · Post by **Vkingo** » Fri May 26, 2006 5:40 am

Demoing Crunchessor now, exited, it's half the price of GUP-1!!! Vanilla Compresor I will test tomorow, but no GUI

thanks

PeterL · Post by **PeterL** » Fri May 26, 2006 4:58 pm

I'm also in love with Crunchessor.
Here's another one for different taste: Compadre Beatpuncher

diverdee · Post by **diverdee** » Fri May 26, 2006 5:30 pm

Vanilla compressor is excellent.
Really wish it had a gui.

Vkingo · Post by **Vkingo** » Sun May 28, 2006 5:12 am

So I'm going to settle on OptiumFX's Compadre, after a quick demo and the help of their free video tutorial I was sold and only for $49!!

I thik I'll start a new thread to let people know about this puppy and the tutorial.

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Sun May 28, 2006 6:49 am

Compadre is an awesome plug-in. The only downside to Compadre is that it's more CPU-demanding than GUP-1 or Crunchessor, depending on the number of tracks you want to run at once.

LiteOn · Post by **LiteOn** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:29 am

bduffy wrote:Compadre is an awesome plug-in. The only downside to Compadre is that it's more CPU-demanding than GUP-1 or Crunchessor, depending on the number of tracks you want to run at once.

Yep, it's a great one, and I don't have the feel that it's cpu consumption is particularly demanding (but haven't done a real comparison..).
What I especially like is the fact that every knob/handle really causes changes which are audible. The icing on the cake would be an additional BPF mode in the side chain.

At this price an absolute no-brainer.

cheers,
LiteOn

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:44 am

I was checking out Compadre yesterday as it goes. Very good plugin.

3*s · Post by **3*s** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:58 am

dbd (dave blakey's dynamics processor): cheap, fast, clean, easy, stereo.

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Sun May 28, 2006 4:40 pm

3*s wrote:dbd (dave blakey's dynamics processor): cheap, fast, clean, easy, stereo.

What the hell is that?

3*s · Post by **3*s** » Sun May 28, 2006 9:10 pm

bduffy wrote:
3*s wrote:dbd (dave blakey's dynamics processor): cheap, fast, clean, easy, stereo.
What the hell is that?

http://www.db-audioware.com/dB-D-dynami ... r-more.htm

DirectX only unfortunately.

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Sun May 28, 2006 9:18 pm

3*s wrote:
bduffy wrote:
3*s wrote:dbd (dave blakey's dynamics processor): cheap, fast, clean, easy, stereo.
What the hell is that?
http://www.db-audioware.com/dB-D-dynami ... r-more.htm

DirectX only unfortunately.

ah. Never heard it called that before. Those are good plugs.

Better than GUP-1?