Fabien's tips for Kotelnikov

[Artesano707]

Do I have to register at Tokyo Dawn site. Doesn't seem to let me? Iam a new user interested in kotel Nikovel compressor . I heard about this from an engineer instructor. Please inform. I did down oad from the web page to my MacBook and it says successful. But can't find?

[FabienTDR]

Registration is not required for freeware.

Accounts are only meant to allow customers to access their products, accounts are created during the payment/code redeem process.

About installation, look here for more details:
https://docs.tokyodawn.net/installing-a ... r-plugins/

[Artesano707]

BUT I WANT TO REGISTER !!!

[FabienTDR]

Well, you can buy a paid product from us and you'll get an account.

But I don't really understand why you'd desperately want one, they are not required to operate our freeware.

[martinjuenke]

BUT I WANT TO REGISTER !!!

AFAIK you can subscribe their newsletter.

[FabienTDR]

In all clarity:

Freeware does not require registration or login. We respect your privacy

TDR Accounts are only used to access paid products.

Newsletter subscriptions purely inform about product updates, sometimes also discounts.

[Brookwood]

Quite a testament that after 8+ years Kotelnikov is still one of the best ITB bus compressors out there.

[martinjuenke]

Quite a testament that after 8+ years Kotelnikov is still one of the best ITB bus compressors out there.

Well said… and true!

[milesdeem]

Just trying this compressor out and loving it. Outperforms all my previous goto compressors all around... Really slept on this one

[JohanBq]

Happy to have found this thread. Great info.
Have the plugin but for some reason I have not used it very much... but I will surely look into this more now.

[mark50]

My favourite bus compressor!

[Loyd]

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Here's a random list of little trick and workflows I found to be the most useful for my needs.

• Too much grab for low frequency events? Instead of opening the attack, try to play around with low-freq relax: Pick a shallow slope, something between 2dB/Oct and 5dB/Oct and use a relatively high corner frequency, maybe somewhere around 200Hz.
  
  Also, try to increase Peak-Crest. This tells the peak section to increase threshold for the peak stage.
• Typically, you'll want to set Release Peak relative to the selected Attack value. For short attacks, use short peak release values. For longer attacks, try longer peak release values.
• Since RMS section automatically makes sure to keep the RMS long enough for low frequency events and short for higher frequency events, it can be run at very fast speeds. Much faster than one would normally use on a conventional compressor. Do not hesitate to try out seemingly unreasonable RMS Release values.
• For aggressive/creative compression, make sure to disable low relax, and the RMS stage. Choose a low knee value and play around with strong ratios.
• I like to use FDR to approximate an inverse fletcher munson curve. Try this preset:
  

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  <TDRKotelnikovGE thresholdParam="-25.0" peakCrestParam="3.0" softKneeParam="2.0" ratioParam="2.0" attackParam="7.0" releasePeakParam="50" releaseRMSParam="180" makeUpParam="0.0" dryMixParam="off" outGainParam="4.0" keyHPFrequencyParam="210" keyHPSlopeParam="3.0" keyStereoDiffParam="60" keyStereoBalanceParam="Center" fdrVisibleParam="Off" fdrActiveParam="On" fdrTypeParam="Bell A" fdrFrequencyParam="1300" fdrAmountParam="60" yingParam="Off" yangParam="Off" deltaParam="Off" bypassParam="Off" equalLoudParam="Off" qualityParam="Precise" modeParam="Stereo" grDispScaleParam="2" grDispModeParam="Gain Reduction"/>

Thanks Fabien! TDR tools never stop impressing me as there is always something to discover