10 commercial compressors compared in a dance context

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another vote for DYNASONE.

At least for heavy beat dance music.

Other limiters I know make final sound muddy, beat less convincing.

With Dynasone set up correctly you will not even notice that the peaks stay within -0.2dB instead of +6. Could this be because of its computing power - 128bit float instead of 32 or at best 64?
And its onboard compressor - I don't know how it works different that others - but this one I simply find extremely easy to achieve a convincing effect of pumping, quite suitable for dance music.

Marvellous, really. I don't want to speak badly of the competitors' stuff, so I will say no more.

Peace

T

[krank]

This thread would have been golden for me had the source material been acoustic drums with decently matched individual levels, ie. a drum bus. I wish someone could make a similar shoot-out for that, with properly matched output levels.

(edited slightly to avoid sounding patronizing - I was seriously nodding off when I first wrote it)

[dr. orange]

This thread would have been golden had the source material been acoustic drums with decently matched individual levels, ie. a drum bus. Someone please make a similar shoot-out for that. And match the output levels this time. Yes.

feel free to do it better or stop trolling

[Kingston]

This thread would have been golden had the source material been acoustic drums with decently matched individual levels, ie. a drum bus. Someone please make a similar shoot-out for that. And match the output levels this time. Yes.

It's been done before, and dare I say it, by people with just a tad more knowledge on how to do these things at least partially right.

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=110148

[dr. orange]

Krank, Kingston, someone is this generous and kind and creates a thread to share it's time and effort and you stupid f**ks don't have anything better to do than to smack his work?

If you consider yourseld better, than goddammit use your knowledge/experience constructive or at least shut up

[jmh]

Do you mean the same kind of constructive you so brilliantly do most of the time?

... thought so.

[l0gic0]

haha!

[l0gic0]

I never quite hear any mix engineer using side-chain on rock/metal mix (such as for the bass guitar and kick). Is this a fair statement? (Side chain in Cubase is hard, ...anyway).

Sidechain the whole mix with the vocal do wonders and is practiced to get a very loud rock track.

[krank]

feel free to do it better or stop trolling

I didn't really mean to put this thread or the OP down at all, I find it really interesting in principle and think it's great that someone bothered, I just didn't care for the kind of sample used. As to trolling: haha.

[Zaphod (giancarlo)]

another vote for DYNASONE.

At least for heavy beat dance music.

agreed. I use it quite a lot, for glueing the master. Does it sound good? I say no, it cuts mids a lot. It sounds right anyway.

[mike goodwin]

Interesting thread. I find it interesting just how different compressors sound. After listening to the examples I was suprised to see that my current fave compressor(PSP Mix Pressor)did nothing for me. I have since then downloaded the URS compressors to do some ab testing of my own. I found that I could get results that where comparable from the Mix Pressor but the settings between the two would be totaly different. If i just matched settings the two sound very different. I could see that it would be good to have dozens of compressors but at that point you fall back into the so much software that you never get anything done problem. I will say that I think the URS compressors do sound very good. Some of the best I have heard, but I guess they should be at the prices they charge.

[kritikon]

It certainly seems I'd like the URS comps if I bought them. Sad to say, but they're another sale lost to me because of iLok though. It was good to hear them in action if only for those little clips...as they're iLok, I'd never actually knowingly heard them before.

I liked the way Marquis worked in its clip too. I might just have to bite the nasty GUI bullet and buy it after a demo. At least I can make myself put up with Voxengo GUIs (I really don't like them at all...) but I can't use iLoks. Why oh why do some devs insist on losing sales by using those nasty PACE people? They may as well print a SONY label on their product as well for good measure...or just have a pretty little "f**k off you dirty little paying customer c**t" somewhere obvious. Why do they make products I can really like and could really use, then send me away (iLok). I just won't use iLoks full stop. If URS put their products on some kind of DSP card at even more price...I think I might consider buying them even. There are better dongles than those that f**k up your PC...

Ah well...maybe I'll buy Marquis and treat myself to another h/w comp too.

[kevvvvv]

dr orange

Krank, Kingston, someone is this generous and kind and creates a thread to share it's time and effort and you stupid f**ks don't have anything better to do than to smack his work?

I wouldn't have put it so rudely, but I agree with your point.

This has been a great thread, one that made sense, and was fun too.

But Kingston generally makes such a good contribution, and Krank's being pretty straight about it.

Full marks to Alien Leg for getting me excited at any rate