An audio comparisson of a few compression plugin devices.
Yes, I thought it could be interesting to take our eyes away from all the shiny buzzwords, company bias, awesome or ugly GUIs and to listen to some drum buss compression.
Which do you like the most and least? Comments?
The inevitable disclaimer:
Not affiliated to.
Not employed by.
Mostly not a fanboi.
Un-paid for.
No developer knows about this upfront.
Non scientific.
Files are not technically level matched, they are kinda loudness matched by ears by listening to the loudness of the snare. The kick changed the most from comp to comp, so I took the snare as reference point.
There was no intention to make any plugin to sound bad or any better than the rest but I had one plugin as a reference for this and tried to make the others to sound in the ballpark and hopefully as good as my reference.
If this experiment sparks some interest I plan to reveal which is which after a reasonable amount of guesses and/or discussion.
In the hope to start an interesting and helpful discussion, here is the stuff:
Track A is without a buss compressor, from B to G are the compressed versions and then there is a All together version, which switches every 2 bars between the files in the same order as above, only the last 4 bars are from file G. Simple math problem pragmatically solved.
Enjoy!
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It had a good beat, and I could dance to it. On a side note, one of my browser plugins doesn't let the soundcloud links show. I don't care, I just thought I'd mention it. No, I'm not going to tell anyone what plugins I use, that's a secret.