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3*s · Post by **3*s** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 5:39 pm

What are people's favorite clean sounding native or non-native compressor VST/DXe? By this I mean:

-Linear Gain
-No saturation (analog or not)
-No phase smearing.

Or as close to that as possible.

declassified · Post by **declassified** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 5:40 pm

For point 2) and 3) I guess Voxengo Elephant is pretty useable...
It's not a compressor but a limiter, but you can use it to compress audio, so...

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 5:42 pm

I haven't used any of the commercial ones except the Kjaerhus GCO-1, so I'm not a reliable source...

I rather like George Yohng's W1 for transparent limiting, but I haven't found a very transparent compressor yet.

Chunkware's Vanilla Compressor is nice, but whenever I've used it I've consciously tried to get it to colour the sound, so I can't speak to its transparency.

Greg

D-Fusion · Post by **D-Fusion** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 6:07 pm

Hmm. that must be the C3Multiband Compressor

Extreme clean and punchy sound

You can find it here:
http://www.ismusic.ne.jp/slim_slow_slider/vst/

trmupstage · Post by **trmupstage** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:00 pm

If you want compression that you can not hear, one of the best is Sinus's Peak Compressor. You can get some pretty large gain increases with absolutely no coloration.

Tom

Stupid American Pig · Post by **Stupid American Pig** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:11 pm

the cakewalk sonitus compressor is not too bad, I second Yohng compressor and KJaerhaus classic compressor and classic limiter arent bad either...

defjamm · Post by **defjamm** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:02 am

try voxengo polysquasher.

ericj23 · Post by **ericj23** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:09 am

sony oxford for powercore - that's realy clean with all the sidecahin pseudo warmth expander and gate sorta stuff you could want

but its too damn expensive

i think i'm going to stop downloading demo's just to try them out because the credit card always ends up suffering

Coolredguitar · Post by **Coolredguitar** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:33 am

I have to add my respect for the Voxengo Polysquasher....I havent had it long but I find this one to be very transparent

Kim Lajoie · Post by **Kim Lajoie** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:50 am

The compression algorithms in Quantum-FX are top notch. I think people forget about QFX because it's a bundle and a modular effects builder too... but the built in effects are really quite good. The compression and limiting algorithms are the highlights.

Forever,

Kim.

TotcProductions · Post by **TotcProductions** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:57 am

Try Voxengo's Soniformer

I tried the demo and was quite impressed with the clarity. lol, still haven't bought it yet though. just too broke right now.

peace!

Funkybot · Post by **Funkybot** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 1:04 am

Elemental Audio's Neodynium is the cleanest VST compressor I've come across yet, but it's not quite a stock compressor at first glance (though you can absolutely get it to behave that way by turning off the extra bands or "zones").

akisd28 · Post by **akisd28** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 1:54 am

ericj23 wrote:sony oxford for powercore

Ditto.

but its too damn expensive

It's worth it.

kritikon · Post by **kritikon** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 7:10 am

I'll second QuantumFX...I've always found their compressors pretty clear. And The Kjaerhus Classic comp seems pretty clean also. Form what experience I've had with the Waves ones, they seem pretty clean, although I'm sure you can get clarity at a far smaller cost elsewhere

Not that I'm a particular fan of clean compression - I prefer mine with character.

C00kie · Post by **C00kie** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 2:43 pm

3*s wrote:Compressor ... linear gain

When the gain is completely linear, it ain't no comnpressor anymore.

Cleanest Compressor?