With time and effort you probably could make it sound pretty close What IS speacial about compressors like the Waves SSL plugin that makes them different? Does it have something to do with a particular auto release algorithm? With extra parameters for the amount of auto release, could ReaComp be made to sound like all other compressors? I've asked this question on a seperate thread, but this seems more appropriate Neve put out a piece of mastering gear a while back that did just this among other things (the 'masterpiece'), and it's nice to be able to toy with that idea to some extent in a plugin. It's all good! I'd never want this comp to be linear phase - that would be way too dull: you can get some killer sounds (see my presets somewhere on the resources site) by just chosing interesting filter frequencies. Because it's not phase linear you can have a great time just by dragging the frequency bands around and listening carefully to what happens. The trick here is to arrange the cross-over points of the filters to do nice mojo stuff to your audio. I like this better than 64x and lower options.
Sounds nice between 32 and 100 to my ears (depending on material) Suprisingly close to the actual hardware. Click the 'feedback detector' switch and you've got a different sound, more LA2 in style. Switch on oversample and you're in 1980s comp heaven. Not free, but very reasonable priced: For a really great dbx style comp you simply can't beat Stillwell audio's MajorTom (the vst). I wish it had some knobs on it, as i don't really get along with the graph. It computes the filters using a different algo (i don't know the details, but i think it's not an FFT but a timedomain FIR? is this correct anyone?) and this mode has a beautiful sound worthy of being a totally different eq. Sounds awesome, to me, better than the default FFT mode. ReaFIR in 'reduce artefacts/less accurate mode'. (I suspect it might be internal type conversion or rounding error, or something related, but i'm open to ideas). Why do so many plugs have this problem I wonder. Super audio, suffers none of that horrid mid-range complication of many plugins. See for details.Ī0 parametric eq from a0audio.Free. I think you've got to email the creators to get it. However, it is a bit tasty in its own right, if you like a nice and stylish sheen to your top end. In my view this sounds nothing like the pultec it looks like.