KVR Audio

wintoid · Post by **wintoid** » Fri Jan 30, 2026 8:35 am

I've seen no discussion on KVR about Balcony Left.

https://www.littlesirrekko.com/products/balcony-left

I've certainly not got golden ears, but I've been playing with it and it's probably my favourite 1176 outside of Genesis/Nebula. I would previously have reached for Pulsar Audio's 1178. Has anyone else tried it?

frankjcc2003 · Post by **frankjcc2003** » Fri Jan 30, 2026 4:06 pm

I'm going to chime in and say, this is in fact the only 1176 emulation that sounds like real hardware. I had an 1176LN Universal Audio about 15 years ago and times had gotten hard so I sold it. I picked it to sell because 1st it was an easy sell but also whenever I got the compression sounding just right on my vocal, the distortion was unbearable. Then I learned all about distortion and I wanted it back so bad. There has not been a plugin to date that gave me that sound, until now. The attack on slowest is perfect . The all buttons in is exactly as I remember it smashing drums and vocals and no plugin has done this properly yet. Times somehow got hard again, but I'm buying this before my demo runs out. How did times get hard, I only have just over a thousand plugins (unused folder). Seriously, this will kick more plugins out and have already. Purple audio was the only one I kept before this. I've long retired all the UAD's They have never lived up to the hardware.

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Fri Jan 30, 2026 4:31 pm

I've actually had a Revision H 1176. I think I even posted some audio examples here on KvR way back in the day. I haven't yet tried the plugin but I'm surprised a lot of people seem to comment how nice the saturation is.. when my memory of it is that it was quite clinical and clean sounding. It was by far the "least mojo" version of the 1176 I had heard.

I was also using D and F versions of the 1176 hardware back then and I much preferred those over the silverface in almost all instances. The rev H was always considered the worst of the bunch and I agreed with that sentiment.

Maybe I'd change my mind today?

AGIGA · Post by **AGIGA** » Fri Jan 30, 2026 8:16 pm

"A one-of-a-kind vintage FET compressor with 30 years of hit records in its circuits..."
..those hit records shaped the circuits into pure perfection..it must be the best one ever

JerGoertz · Post by **JerGoertz** » Fri Jan 30, 2026 9:17 pm

AGIGA wrote: Fri Jan 30, 2026 8:16 pm "A one-of-a-kind vintage FET compressor with 30 years of hit records in its circuits..."
..those hit records shaped the circuits into pure perfection..it must be the best one ever

It's a meticulously modeled game-changing mojo machine, your new go-to.

jens · Post by **jens** » Fri Jan 30, 2026 11:21 pm

My game has already been changed just from looking at the product page...

dionenoid · Post by **dionenoid** » Sat Jan 31, 2026 12:35 am

Weird choice. Because everybody knows that Balcony Right and Balcony Middle sound much better.

ampetrosillo · Post by **ampetrosillo** » Sun Feb 01, 2026 9:54 am

I've probably never seen so much marketing hyperbole on a website.

legendCNCD · Post by **legendCNCD** » Sun Feb 01, 2026 12:55 pm

Maybe it was viciously attacked by the vicar or such and its a bit broken, and thats why it sounds so 'musical'

kraster · Post by **kraster** » Sun Feb 01, 2026 1:24 pm

legendCNCD wrote: Sun Feb 01, 2026 12:55 pm Maybe it was viciously attacked by the vicar or such and its a bit broken, and thats why it sounds so 'musical'

To be fair, vandalising vicars aside, the differences between the C-H revision individual units is going to be dominated by calibration and component condition much more than any innate differences.

The later models are all very similar with slight tweaks. A and B are noticeably different because of the Western Electric traffos.

There are differences in the various revisions but in most use cases it would be difficult to tell them apart if they were all calibrated to factory standards.

AGIGA · Post by **AGIGA** » Sun Feb 01, 2026 2:07 pm

I was interested in what this new plugin company is all about. Here's what I found out with a quick google search:

Welcome to Moonbase — Little Sir Rekko, the new audio plugin company from Gregg Wells
Gregg is a producer and engineer with decades of experience working at the highest level of music production, and we’re genuinely excited to support him as he launches and runs the business behind his plugins on Moonbase.
A big thank you as well to The Audio Programmer for the trust and collaboration along the way.

The Audio Programmer:
Audio Plugin & Software Development
From custom plugins to full DAWs and enterprise audio applications, we bring your ideas to life
https://www.theaudioprogrammer.com/audi ... evelopment
https://www.theaudioprogrammer.com/case ... be-digital
https://www.theaudioprogrammer.com/case ... ---knock-r

Moonbase is built for real-world audio software businesses, and it means a lot when established producers and companies choose us for their setups.
https://moonbase.sh/

Balcony Left - best 1176 ever?