KTT - Kill the Top

Not a successful multiband compressor.

I was disappointed with KTT. OTT's controls are infamously mysterious, but this takes it to the next level.

Despite the quotidian interface, it's often unclear what exactly is happening to the signal, with no control over the individual bands, and the controls do not seem to do what they say.

And there only seems to be two settings: kind-of-off, and BLASTING IN YOUR FACE. And not in a fun way. There seems to be some kind of audible gating happening; the tails of signals are plagued with a progressive chopping effect, and the tail gets completely cut off. I would expect the opposite with aggressive compression, leading me to believe that there is something else going on behind the scenes.

The bottom line: it just doesn't sound good. OTT has a pleasing quality, often like an aggressive exciter. But KTT just brings cloudy artefacts to the party. I'm calling the cops on this one. Stay away.