Best Fairchild 670 alternative?

[Spiggy]

U-he's Presswerk will do a M/S vari-mu style comp with ease.

https://u-he.com/products/presswerk/

[Azbest]

Overloud 670 is pretty sweet.

[jamcat]

Hey Spiggy, are you also named after a cat?

[DJMaytag]

How is the Neold V73U67 or whatever it is called? The demos on PA’s site seem to indicate it’s useful for more things than I would have expected to see a 670 would be used.

[Spiggy]

Hey Spiggy, are you also named after a cat?

Indeed - even lived above a chemists for a while

[astralprojection]

U-he's Presswerk will do a M/S vari-mu style comp with ease.

https://u-he.com/products/presswerk/

believe it or not, Ive never actually tried that one before. Ive always thought Pro-C2 does everything for me. But if this one can do M/S thats for sure a step up from Pro-C.
Although the rantings and ravings about Presswerk have not gone unnoticed.

Overloud 670 is pretty sweet.

didnt know about that one either. Thread has been very fruitful. My thanks to you all.

[astralprojection]

im getting anxiety from the amount of incorrect posts im making, please make it stop and delete them

[jamcat]

If every incorrect post on KVR were deleted, it would be quite empty in here.

[zerocrossing]

This probably won't help the OP, but I use the UAD Fairchild 670 a lot and I love it.

[jens]

Hard to find a Fairchild-type compressor with M/S.

Not really. The T-RackS Vintage Compressor Model 670 does M/S.

Yes, indeed - which is the one with the M/S (and L/R) implementation (that is nigh impossible) to beat.

[dionenoid]

If you just want the mojo, or the tone, you could get Tim Cupwise's program for Nebula. The compression action on that one is a bit weird though but the tone/preamp programs are excellent.

Are you referring to the 660 ? Or the Tone 1 pack with the included 660 preamps ?

Both! I suspect the Tone 1 pack includes all the same preamp programs as the singular 660 program, thus the Tone 1 pack is probably better value.. unless you really want the compression too.

Thanx. Got the Tone 1 pack, he's having a sale atm. There's some interesting stuff in there.

[MJACau]

noone mentioned SPL iron yet, just checked it out and tried for the first time. Seems like an upgraded 670 and sounds awesome

I mentioned that I use Iron in the third or fourth post. I'm broken hearted that you didn't see it and I am going to sit in the corner and sulk.
So there.

Damn SPL Iron plug in is really really good it can be pushed harder and not pump.
I just wish it had over-sampling.
The Real hardware looks beastly.

[Googly Smythe]

noone mentioned SPL iron yet, just checked it out and tried for the first time. Seems like an upgraded 670 and sounds awesome

I mentioned that I use Iron in the third or fourth post. I'm broken hearted that you didn't see it and I am going to sit in the corner and sulk.
So there.

Damn SPL Iron plug in is really really good it can be pushed harder and not pump.
I just wish it had over-sampling.
The Real hardware looks beastly.

Tests have shown that Iron suffers from aliasing so people are put off. But the aliasing is not audible, it's only at very high hzs, only visible on graphs.
The 2dB stepped input/output doesn't help, but that's what faders are for.

[MJACau]

Tests have shown that Iron suffers from aliasing so people are put off. But the aliasing is not audible, it's only at very high hzs, only visible on graphs.
The 2dB stepped input/output doesn't help, but that's what faders are for.

Doing tests my self, with a test tone at 10k, the roll back distortion is very low if I'm running 48kz at 32bit float.
Using Metaplugin lowers that again at x4 oversampling. It's all comes down to how much CPU I want to use at higher sample rates to avoid the roll back of distortion bouncing back from Nyquist wall.

I guess it all comes down to taste, maybe the aliasing sounds nice with the material with multiple instances?! Or it just adds congested haze in the mix.

AudioAnimalsTV does a good A/B with the plugins to the real hardware, for me it does make it less subjective, than somebody saying "This is the best" without context, it's just taste.
If what plugin does what the hardware does is 80-90% effective, I happy with that.
And to sound like a good Vari-mu hardware compressor alternative in plugin form.

[lucianaeris]

Iron is great. Fits with the music perfectly, while still having a subtle character. It's hard to describe, but after using it for a while you'll get a feel. It's not an obvious sound like an ssl or 1176.