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brok landers · Post by **brok landers** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:50 pm

daniel, thanks in advance for these, i'm sure they'll knock me off my feet as usual ...

is there a release date you can tell us?

ddummer · Post by **ddummer** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:19 pm

Nope, no release dates... I just programmed a big GUI part of my sequencer program and managed to get ca 80 % of what I thought it would solve and that was ca 3 months of hard thinking so I'm a bit hot for solving that problem
once and for all NOW!.

But the first compressor is done algo wise but I need to finetune the knobs
and polish the GUI parts..

Second one (2094) is done but I need to lift the algos into the new framework and slap on the black GUI.

Third is in use on some music projects but I want better performance on
certain algos....

There you have it!

//Daniel

Compyfox · Post by **Compyfox** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:20 pm

Hm... the TLS-2094 sure looks like a Bootsie plugin.

And they sure would look cool (all of them), if they had the same width in terms of the rack look. BUt that's just me.

S-N-S · Post by **S-N-S** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:24 pm

looking forward to the new comps.

and especially looking forward to screenshots of your sequencer

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:33 pm

Yeah, I can't wait for that sucker! That should be extremely interesting...

Optomadic · Post by **Optomadic** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:58 pm

Holy Ghosts

!

Funkybot's Evil Twin · Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:43 am

The 3092 is really really cool looking. I'm psyched to try these out. I'm definitely going to be donating. Hell, I owe it to you for the stuff you already have out...

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:53 am

Uh yeah...I owe this guy...my firstborn?

These are all really, really cool-looking. Just gets better and better (I wonder if ddummer tires of our endless worship...)!

herodotus · Post by **herodotus** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 1:12 am

bduffy wrote:(I wonder if ddummer tires of our endless worship...)!

If so, I am going to make it even worse now.

I am not really much of a compressor user. I use a bit on drums and vocals and thats about it. The idea of doing hard limiting or maximizing on a whole mix or finished track just makes me cringe.

Or it did before trying the TLS Pocket Limiter.

Genuine, honest to goodness transparent limiting. I didn't think it really existed. I thought it was a dream, or a faraway goal, or something too expensive for mere mortals to play with.

But it's actually a piece of freeware.

Wow.

Thanks oh ddummer person.

May the sun always shine on your tomatoes.

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 1:37 am

Damn these look good! I'm sure they'll sound sweet as well!

Cheers!
bManic

Optomadic · Post by **Optomadic** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 2:13 am

herodotus wrote:May the sun always shine on your tomatoes.

and may your kitchen always look that of an Ikea Ad..

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:09 am

herodotus wrote:
bduffy wrote:(I wonder if ddummer tires of our endless worship...)!

If so, I am going to make it even worse now.

I am not really much of a compressor user. I use a bit on drums and vocals and thats about it. The idea of doing hard limiting or maximizing on a whole mix or finished track just makes me cringe.

Or it did before trying the TLS Pocket Limiter.

Genuine, honest to goodness transparent limiting. I didn't think it really existed. I thought it was a dream, or a faraway goal, or something too expensive for mere mortals to play with.

But it's actually a piece of freeware.

Wow.

Thanks oh ddummer person.

May the sun always shine on your tomatoes.

Indeed. He's got good compressors for the I-only-use-a-wee-bit crowd too.

herodotus · Post by **herodotus** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:40 am

bduffy wrote:
Indeed. He's got good compressors for the I-only-use-a-wee-bit crowd too.

To be honest, I will often squash the hell out of drums (for which the TLS 2095 is a worthy tool). I like the 'suck the room into the drum' effect as much as anyone.

It's the obnoxious 'in your face' way people use compression on acoustic guitars and vocals these days that most makes me cringe. And the way they abuse hard clipping on the whole mix is just annoying. Kick drums reduced to square waves have no impact whatsoever. They just disappear. A particularly egregious example I was just looking at is the Songs For The Deaf (QOTSA). I mean, the album sounds like the drummer has a weak right foot, and that drummer is Dave Grohl for god's sake!

Anyway, rant over....carry on.....

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:16 am

herodotus wrote:
bduffy wrote:
Indeed. He's got good compressors for the I-only-use-a-wee-bit crowd too.
To be honest, I will often squash the hell out of drums (for which the TLS 2095 is a worthy tool). I like the 'suck the room into the drum' effect as much as anyone.

It's the obnoxious 'in your face' way people use compression on acoustic guitars and vocals these days that most makes me cringe. And the way they abuse hard clipping on the whole mix is just annoying. Kick drums reduced to square waves have no impact whatsoever. They just disappear. A particularly egregious example I was just looking at is the Songs For The Deaf (QOTSA). I mean, the album sounds like the drummer has a weak right foot, and that drummer is Dave Grohl for god's sake!

Anyway, rant over....carry on.....

I hear ya. Loudness war sucks. But I do hear good mixes that use lots of compression. Well, probably one doesn't notice it, if it's a good mix.

</End of compression apologetics>

brok landers · Post by **brok landers** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:34 am

wanna hear perfect compression?
listen to the album "aliens ate my buick" by thomas dolby ... one of the best engineerings/recorings/mixes ever ...

oh, and, bduffy:
no compressor in the world is woth your first born ...

New TLS website - new compressors deceased!