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Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:00 pm

jens wrote:
wsaidah wrote:hardware compressors change the sound for better or worse with no gain reduction! Software compressors don't do anything to the sound when inserted.
Does this post make any sense whatsoever to anyone?

in a way jens, but it's a new take on an old issue...when I worked retail it was amazing how many people heard of compressors than returned them when the only knob that worked was the gain. Everybody knew what a compressor was (though it seemed it was different to everyone), but had no clue as how to use it...nor did they have the ears to hear the changes. It's fair to say that if I had the money I would of gotten from every returned "broken" compressor I sold, I could buy a really nice compressor...

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:01 pm

Do you have any evidence of this or did you just make it up ?

The thing is there has been blindtest in this area and people have a really hard time telling which is which. The last one i saw the software actually "won". And it was a software emulation compared to the hardware original. And most people thought the soft sounded better!!

How do you like them apples ?

D-Fusion · Post by **D-Fusion** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:02 pm

The reason why software compressors does'nt sound good is bcoz i don't know how to use them

Ildon · Post by **Ildon** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:02 pm

D-Fusion wrote:The reason why software compressors does'nt sound good is bcoz i don't know how to use them

Aleksey Vaneev · Post by **Aleksey Vaneev** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:12 pm

wsaidah wrote:hardware compressors change the sound for better or worse with no gain reduction! Software compressors don't do anything to the sound when inserted.

That depends on the software compressor.

This reminds me of a thread we had here where original poster claimed all compressors that changed the sound when inserted to be 'non-transparent' and 'damaging'... Now we have an opposite idea.

Anyway, take Voxengo Marquis Compressor and see for yourself that it does change sound when just inserted.

wsaidah · Post by **wsaidah** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:13 pm

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jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:17 pm

wsaidah wrote:remember I said SV-315 Compressor sounds good. this is not a hardware verses software the only comparison is that there both Compressors and software Compressors are lacking sonically

So now you're just saying that there are SW and HW compressors that sound shit!!! Geee thanks.I had no idea.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:17 pm

wsaidah wrote:remember I said SV-315 Compressor sounds good. this is not a hardware verses software the only comparison is that there both Compressors and software Compressors are lacking sonically

huh?

bleebsen · Post by **bleebsen** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:18 pm

wsaidah · Post by **wsaidah** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:23 pm

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aallvor · Post by **aallvor** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:29 pm

wsaidah wrote:Marquis Compressor ok but a little to tweaky im looking for something a step above SV-315 Compressor i tryed Marquis for a month but didn't buy.

Get some hardware then, you picky ba***rd.

beej · Post by **beej** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:30 pm

The UAD-1 comps like the Fairchild, 1176LN and LA2A certainly aren't what you'd consider transparent. One of the reasons the 1176LN sounds much better than the lite SE version is that it models the input and output transformer characteristics as well - plenty of people run stuff through 1176's just for colouration only, without actually compressing them.

In any case, I still think the original post is bollox

wsaidah · Post by **wsaidah** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:37 pm

aallvor wrote:
wsaidah wrote:Marquis Compressor ok but a little to tweaky im looking for something a step above SV-315 Compressor i tryed Marquis for a month but didn't buy.
Get some hardware then, you picky ba***rd.
ok your tough behind the key board

martian · Post by **martian** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:55 pm

wsaidah, most of your posts are still available as quotes, no?

BobYordan · Post by **BobYordan** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 9:55 am

So you dont like the compressors in Reason, ehh?

the reason software compressors don't sound good