Source Audio Atlas Compressor pedal (stereo + so much under the hood)

Arrived this morning.

Early findings:

  • Easy to dial in a usable compression sound with just the pedal and not loading the app.
  • Optical mode sounds great.
  • It has line level input compatibility but I’ve found hitting the input with the Syntakt full volume causes unwanted distortion, so brining the volume down to about 70-75% (3PM) cleans it up.
  • Full up ratio gives pleasant limiting
  • The little LED gives some momentary GR feedback, multi-color, green-yellow-orange-red (wasn’t aware, so this is nice) , edit: This can be tweaked in the app to stay on all the time, if you don’t want it to be momentary. I like having it on all the time.
  • Comes with nice long 6ft mini (not micro) USB cable.

Now I’ll do some tweaks with the app to see if I can really make it do what I want.

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