Your go-to compressor in 2023?

[Papuzzo]

Hey Velltone! I've been there wasting a lot of time researching the "best" gear ever since the late 80's and early synth workstations hooked up to an Atari ST running a very primitive Cubase. Then came HDD recording with DAWs, then Gigasampler, then a wave of amazing VST effects and instruments. Then an amazing revelation came to me: The software became so good and exceeded my ability to fully exploit it, even as a somewhat accomplished jazz fusion musician. Then it was back to piano lessons instead of researching better ways to make my mediocre music sound less mediocre.

[El°HYM]

Mediocre engineers use mediocre compressors.

[VELLTONE MUSIC]

Hey Velltone! I've been there wasting a lot of time researching the "best" gear ever since the late 80's and early synth workstations hooked up to an Atari ST running a very primitive Cubase. Then came HDD recording with DAWs, then Gigasampler, then a wave of amazing VST effects and instruments. Then an amazing revelation came to me: The software became so good and exceeded my ability to fully exploit it, even as a somewhat accomplished jazz fusion musician. Then it was back to piano lessons instead of researching better ways to make my mediocre music sound less mediocre.

i have the opposite problem - my music is dope enough,but couldn't mix it properly and offer as professional record till recent days
That's why i stand for quality plugins - no other way for me to finish a project,but to buy,learn and use them to make the raw record a masterpiece,which i slowly learn to do,thanks to affordable plugins and tutorials www.
But everybody has different music story line...
Cheers

[kardeman]

the free 1176 version