Toneboosters Compressor 4

[Bodhisan]

https://www.toneboosters.com/tb_compressor_v4.html

[simmo75]

https://www.toneboosters.com/tb_compressor_v4.html

Is this new, how does it fare to Pro-C or Unisum?

I don’t own any Toneboosters, the price is nice

[mabian]

Is there something new? I think it's been there for some months already...

- Mario

[db3]

Compressor isn't new. A Synth was recently announced by TB on Facebook.

[escalona]

https://www.toneboosters.com/tb_compressor_v4.html

Is this new, how does it fare to Pro-C or Unisum?

I don’t own any Toneboosters, the price is nice

Compressor v4 is from May 2019. It's absolutely fantastic. It had a few issues that were quickly resolved by Jeroen as usual, following users' recommendations. I don't have Unisum but I do have Pro-C and from my humble point of view is par with FF. If I had known TB was going to come up with the new compressor and the new EQ and the new reverb... I wouldn't have bought the whole FabFilter bundle... nonetheless, I don't dislike having it. I feel TB is par with FF quality at a fraction of the price.
This compressor gives you 5 different varieties (smooth, warm, clean, pucnh... and I can't remember the last one), full control over the sidechain, lookahead, upwards compression... tons of things. I really like it.

[simmo75]

https://www.toneboosters.com/tb_compressor_v4.html

Is this new, how does it fare to Pro-C or Unisum?

I don’t own any Toneboosters, the price is nice

Compressor v4 is from May 2019. It's absolutely fantastic. It had a few issues that were quickly resolved by Jeroen as usual, following users' recommendations. I don't have Unisum but I do have Pro-C and from my humble point of view is par with FF. If I had known TB was going to come up with the new compressor and the new EQ and the new reverb... I wouldn't have bought the whole FabFilter bundle... nonetheless, I don't dislike having it. I feel TB is par with FF quality at a fraction of the price.
This compressor gives you 5 different varieties (smooth, warm, clean, pucnh... and I can't remember the last one), full control over the sidechain, lookahead, upwards compression... tons of things. I really like it.

Thanks mate, that all sounds awesome, it looks like I’ll be demoing it.
Because what I really need is another compressor...

[DJErmac]

I really loved BusCompressor with all my heart but never really clicked with the new compressors from Toneboosters, can't explain why.
I've just tried this one and I felt... meh.
The frequency selection feature is nice, but in the end it brings nothing you can't do with other plugins that feature multiband compression (OK this one is cheaper, the thing is I'm already covered).
The different compressor models are all clean and nice sounding, but I don't know, it simply lacks charm imho, I miss the wildness I can hear in some Kush Audio compressors for example, or the analog character you find in the Tokyo Dawn Records ones.
It's still a good sounding compressor, for sure, but not a game changer imo.

[GeorgK]

While TB plugins sound great, their product policy was always a little odd - abandoning products almost randomly, and releasing new products without backward compatibility. BusCompressor was great (ultra-clean and extremly clear GUI), while Compressor 3 was mediocre at best. Now we have a dead BusCompresor, and "v4" with additional features that many people could live without.
My v3 bundle started misbehaving in Sonar, and it's not really reassuring to know that there are no updates, only new plugins.

[AKJ]

My v3 bundle started misbehaving in Sonar, and it's not really reassuring to know that there are no updates, only new plugins.

What do you mean by that? Sonar is old Software and so is TB V3. They do not change. If you got issues, it must be something else (new hardware? drivers?).

[Igro]

The clean and smooth modes sound like nothing else. No distortion, no attack smear. Smooth as glass. Bought because i was really missing that absolute transparency. At minimum attack doesn't add any nasty clicks to the attack. When the source signal is already "charactered" enough (which is the case considering the vast amount of character plugins we have these days) , this is exactly what you need. Awesome comp.

[Igro]

It would be good to have an additional mode that would slam the signal just like api2500 or dbx160 compressors do.

[cpsmusic]

Hi All,

I've had the TB Comp for a while but haven't used it much. Anyone using this one as a bus compressor? If so, out of the five modes which would be best suited to bus compression duties

Cheers!

[djanthonyw]

I've had the TB Comp for a while but haven't used it much. Anyone using this one as a bus compressor? If so, out of the five modes which would be best suited to bus compression duties

I'm not using C4, but am using MBC and it sounds great for mastering and busses. It blows FF Pro-MB away. I remember demoing C4 and it sounds pretty much the same as MBC in single band mode so I'm not really sure what the advantage of using just C4 would be, but I also mainly just use dedicated character compressors on tracks.

[cpsmusic]

I've had the TB Comp for a while but haven't used it much. Anyone using this one as a bus compressor? If so, out of the five modes which would be best suited to bus compression duties

I'm not using C4, but am using MBC and it sounds great for mastering and busses. It blows FF Pro-MB away. I remember demoing C4 and it sounds pretty much the same as MBC in single band mode so I'm not really sure what the advantage of using just C4 would be, but I also mainly just use dedicated character compressors on tracks.

I don't have MBC, maybe I should get it? Any thoughts on which mode is most suited to buses?

[pekbro]

MBC is very good, Pro MB is also very good, I dunno about it blowing Pro MB away, maybe in price.
MBC is definitely worth having, tho I don't think it supports linear phase crossovers, which might
be useful in some situations. Certainly for the price, MBC is hard to beat.