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Re:PC4K S-type 2013/02/12 08:25:22 (permalink)
Don't forget about the CA-2A.
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Re:PC4K S-type 2013/02/12 08:36:55 (permalink)
Dean, you can swap out and use the compressors in either spot. The differences in "name" are irrelevant. The question is how hard and fast do you want the compressors to react... to input, to output, how much of the transient is allowed through, how much of the tail end of the transient is amplified before the compressor releases back to normal. For me the SSL is subtle, I feel like I have to really push the sound through to make a harsh effect. I feel like the 1176 can bring forward a lot of energy with very little push. I'm doing an acoustic recording project with a bluegrass band. The 1176 changes the energy on the track level. Each of the two guitars are panned hard left or right. I have them routed to a GTR Buss. The PC4k S-type channel comp levels the summed sound so that even though each guitar has it's own nuance, they both lay in the song at approximately the same level... or they sound as though they are on the same stage without one overpowering the other.

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Re:PC4K S-type 2013/02/12 08:40:14 (permalink)
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Dean, ... one is for the individual track and one is for the BUSS. PC76 is based on the 1176 FET compressor. The Buss compressor is based on Solid State Logic 4000 BUSS compressor. Now the fine details I can't expand on too much but I understand that the 1176 was a rack unit. it has NO sidechaining capabilities. The PC4k buss has sidechaining, a high pass filter, and a WET/DRY mix so that you can do parallel compression without creating a new buss. It came from the BUSS section of the SSL4000 board. ... I've come to the conclusion that compression is compression... how gentle or how harsh depends on how you adjust it. The PC4K CHANNEL does not come with the Producer .... it is an add-on. I've got to the point where I use 1176, and PC2A the most... I use PC4k buss on summed mixes alot where I have, say 2 or more guitars routed to one buss and the BUSS compressor kind of glues it together before adding it to the rest of the mix.

The biggest difference between the PC76 and the S-type channel comp is that the latter is more flexible and allows for low ratios as well as slow attack. Having the attack on a toggle button makes it easy to audition what type of attack time you want, but if you want something in between, you're out of luck. The slow attack mode seems to usually work very nice for bringing forward the attack on bass and kick drum tracks!


However, ever since the PC2A (slow[ish] attack and program dependent ratio) came out, I feel that between that and the PC76, I can usually get what I want for a given track. If I wanna get surical about it I'll just use the Sonitus comp (or iZotope Alloy for that matter), so the S-Type channel comp has become sort of redundant for me...


If they'd update the PC76 to include a continous ratio knob (1 to infinite) and attack times of more than 1 ms (preferably up to 50), it would be more useful than it is now, but then it wouldn't really be an 1176 emulation anymore.


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