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I also highly recommend the Alesis Micro Limiter if you use your MS for more than just drums. After borrowing one from @tr909, I am a believer!
I just didnāt want to say so until I won this ebay auction over the weekend. Didnāt want to make my chances of winning at a fair price any more difficult.
My budget idea was about 50ā¬ (or maybe near 100ā¬ if the stuff is great), thanks for all feedback anyways
If we talk about 200ā¬, 300ā¬ or higher then I would consider buying another kind of toy, not a compressor
What about a pedal like the BOSS CS-3?
Legowelt runs his TR-808 through one for āsteamy, smudgety, lo-fi, pumping, jacking beats!ā
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Itās obviousā¦ octatrack!
I love the Deco. Makes everything sound great. Love the saturation and wobble
I recommend you skip the redundant D/A conversions and just use the class compliant USB on the m:s for recording your audio. Then use software compression to do compressing.
There are some decent freeware comps out there that cost 0$! Besides the price, you get advanced features such as filtered sidechaining, Mid-Side, wet/dry for easy, phase-aligned parallel compressionā¦
youād need to pay an arm and a leg for similar features in hardware land, and IMHO 2-bus compression without a HPF sidechain is a bad idea for most club music contexts anyways.
TL;DR - I dont recommend anyone to buy a HW compressor if theyāve just started making music. Software is a much safer way to get started nerding out with comps
I am finally trying to play with Pulse Effects
Letās see
i second the alesis micro limter. super useful little beat up unit.
i can also vouch for the boss cs3 and the 3630 for that pumping breathing sound. as for a set it and forget it iād recommend the alesis micro limiter or the rnc.
Though it is redundant Iāll also recommend the micro-limiter. I like it more than my rnc and rnla
Iāve looked this up before for my DT, but sold it and just bought a M:S. I didnāt like the compressor on the DT.
Used Alesis 3630. The famed āDaft Punkā sidechain compressor. Usually like ā¬50 on ebay.
Personally Iāll be getting the RNLA, vs RNCC. The RNLA has some color to it, while the RNC is crystal clear. Both are incredible value.
Re: BOSS CS-3 I mean itās hard not to trust Legowelt, but in my experience Iāve not been happy with Boss pedals sound overall. They all have aā¦ tinny, metallic sound to em. I like warms like Strymon delivers.
If you just want color to your sound, you could consider getting something like an old Boss BX-8 or BX800 mixer, which would allow you get some warmth, crunch, lo-fi saturation on the sum, and still have channels left over for any other drum machine or synth you want. Itās not compression but i mention it as some people simply want saturation and crunch when theyāre asking about compression.
I have seen some cheap Alesis 3630 in eBay, just 25$
I have never used eBay before, but I am going to try
theyāre a cult favorite, though many people say they degrade sound quite a bit on the way in. i suppose this is to be treated more as an effect than a healthy part of a signal chain
iād definitely take a look at the FMR RNC or RNLA. Check this thread:
But thatās over 200ā¬
For that budget Iād wait a little & buy a M:C (nothing to do with compression, I knowā¦ itās all about budget )
hahaha well sure i mean thatās not even apples and orangesā¦ itās like apples and 1983 Buick sedans.
I hated the 3630, ended up giving mine away. It colored the sound way to heavily for me to use it. It was great for noise/chiptune stuff but I couldnāt handle how it made everything else sound.
Moved on to a FMR RNC and havenāt looked back.