KVR Audio

jmbriley · Post by **jmbriley** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:32 pm

How good is this. Is it suitable for both mixing and mastering and where can I find a help file or manual. I mainly don't know where to adjust the threhold and how the wet and dry buttons effect the signal on a compressor. Thanks

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:41 pm

jmbriley wrote:How good is this.

Is that a statement or a question?

jmbriley wrote:Is it suitable for both mixing and mastering

Yeah, they all say that... In my experience if they want to excell in both they also slightly fail at both

jmbriley wrote:where can I find a help file or manual.

Where all the other online helpfiles are:
http://www.cockos.com/wiki/index.php/Re ... umentation
or to be more specific:
http://www.cockos.com/wiki/index.php/ReaComp

jmbriley wrote:how the wet and dry buttons effect the signal on a compressor.

Haven't used it myself, but I guess the "dry" button bypasses the compressor, so by switching wet / dry / wet / dry you can have a listen and compare how the settings have affected your track.

championrabbit · Post by **championrabbit** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:51 pm

It's a good, vanilla compressor. It has no colour, but it's pretty tweakable.

The wet/dry controls would be handy for lazy NY compression I guess...

jmbriley · Post by **jmbriley** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:56 pm

Thanks for the help file man.

Pipelineaudio · Post by **Pipelineaudio** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 2:25 am

ReaComp is meant to be a building block from which to build the type of compressor you want. It has MANY detector options and allows feedforward or feedback mode as well

The key to making "character" from reacomp is to either figure out the detetecttor type of a compressor you like, or better yet, tailoring the RMS setting to he sound you are working with, using the help of a tool such as PSP Vintage Meter (free)

See these vdeos for some basic help on ReaComp:

http://www.reaper.fm/~pipeline/REAPERVi ... %203mb.wmv

http://www.reaper.fm/~pipeline/REAPERVi ... %203mb.wmv

sboullion · Post by **sboullion** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:49 pm

The Wet/Dry controls are for parallel compression.

JamieSkeen · Post by **JamieSkeen** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:58 pm

Reacomp is the best freeware compressor out there....it took me a little bit to get my head around the extra options....I can't believe he(Justin) is giving this away...I own reaper but I have been able to use the reaper plugs in Sonar6 now....Reafir is very powerful too...kind of soniformer-ish if you use the comp option.

championrabbit · Post by **championrabbit** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:04 pm

JamieSkeen wrote:Reacomp is the best freeware compressor out there.

Why?

Pipelineaudio · Post by **Pipelineaudio** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:07 am

championrabbit wrote:
JamieSkeen wrote:Reacomp is the best freeware compressor out there.
Why?

ReaComp puts you in control, simply. Its the closest thing Ive seen, besides maybe synthmaker, to giving you a soldering iron, transformers, tubes, optoisolators and other goodies to experiment with creating dynamics processing.

That said, Loser's Digital Versatile Compressor is going to give ReaComp a serious run for the money. Adding the hold control is like taking Transient Modeller to the next step, while keeping ReaComp's versatility. DVC hasnt got meters yet, so till then, grab PSP Vintage Meter and ReaComp and see what you can do

championrabbit · Post by **championrabbit** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:12 pm

Pipelineaudio wrote:Its the closest thing Ive seen, besides maybe synthmaker, to giving you a soldering iron, transformers, tubes, optoisolators and other goodies to experiment with creating dynamics processing.

That's really not an accurate/honest description though, is it?

The things you describe impart colouration to the signal, but Reacomp can impart colouration only by it's processing of dynamics.

You cannot (for example) create two settings with identical dynamic response, yet with differing tonal colouration. You would be able to do this if Reacomp was really as you described.

Some of the most significant aspects of desirable compressors are related to coloration, not dynamic processing which is why we have a kazillion 'vintage' VST compressors.

Reacomp is a great, vanilla compressor, but a bag of tubes and transistors it ain't.

Pipelineaudio · Post by **Pipelineaudio** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:50 pm

most "coloration" I can think of from my collection of hardware compressors (everything but a real Fairchild, I DO have a Fairman however), comes from the detector circuit. Nothing else has as much affect on the "character" of the compressor.

People think tooooooobz in a compressor have a drastic amount of distortion, or phat or warmth or some other b.s.

They dont

Properly made, tube compressors are clean as glass

With the real world sidechain inputs of reacomp you could put m/s or better eq's as well

Most of the "color" possible in any classis, not broken compressor is available in reacomp

sboullion · Post by **sboullion** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:02 pm

Pipelineaudio wrote: People think tooooooobz in a compressor have a drastic amount of distortion, or phat or warmth or some other b.s.

They dont

Properly made, tube compressors are clean as glass

Actually that's true, and some transistor models are very heavily colored.

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:05 pm

Pipelineaudio wrote:
championrabbit wrote:
JamieSkeen wrote:Reacomp is the best freeware compressor out there.
Why?
ReaComp puts you in control, simply. Its the closest thing Ive seen, besides maybe synthmaker, to giving you a soldering iron, transformers, tubes, optoisolators and other goodies to experiment with creating dynamics processing.

That said, Loser's Digital Versatile Compressor is going to give ReaComp a serious run for the money. Adding the hold control is like taking Transient Modeller to the next step, while keeping ReaComp's versatility. DVC hasnt got meters yet, so till then, grab PSP Vintage Meter and ReaComp and see what you can do

Loser's Digital Versatile Compressor? Haven't heard of that one! What's up with that??

I'm sure Championrabbit will disagree, but I just love this compressor. Nice, simple interface with all the controls one needs to accurately control their dynamics. Excellent work by Cockos.

I'm not sure if it's going to remain free forever - it's just beta right now, no?

sboullion · Post by **sboullion** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:09 pm

Oh, Duffy! Grab the DVC, it's freakin' awesome!

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:11 pm

Grabbed! Checking out!