McDSP 670 compressor. Thoughts?

[gak]

I think this one is a miss for me. Like Concep said, it really clamps down on things. 

My ears say unless there is a secret sauce that I'm unaware of it's just not what I'm looking for at all. 

[Kazz]

If you can find anything about the VST/AU/etc. versions, the controls and DSP code should be the same, so the sound and almost all of the info about it should be the same.

[BillyKodak]

I appreciate the input guys. I guess it all depends on the context. To my ears it sounds really smooth, and I'd extend that sentiment to the Moo compressor which I've just bought. Cheers, Kodak.

[gak]

I think this one is a miss for me. Like Concep said, it really clamps down on things. 

My ears say unless there is a secret sauce that I'm unaware of it's just not what I'm looking for at all. 

I may have been wrong. 

[gak]

You know, sometimes you have to find the right application.......

For example. When trying all the typical things (like drum bus) this isn't really the ticket. I thought that with the comments Billy made that I'd be able to put it on something and get gain w/o clipping. That doesn't work very well imho. Again, doesn't mean I'm not doing something wrong but it has 3 knobs...I seriously doubt I'm controlling it wrong And if you turn down the threshold too much, it's too obvious.

BUT, if you have something like reason drums 2 or kong setups where the separate outputs are there, then things get interesting. Again as an example: The reason drums usually have a ton of crap that I don't like (and kong usually has what is imho a pretty lousy compressor if you don't build from scratch) and using this per output seems to be a dyno way of getting more oomph and less "crush" dynamics. One great thing is as far as I can tell, it's pretty light on the CPU load so this isn't a concern unless you have a fairly old computer.

Much testing to do further though.

[EthicistBeats]

Hey guys, i made a combi to emulate the fairchild's Lat-Vert signal processing [mid-side]. It's a simple patch, two c670's connected via a thor [selig's m-s encode patch]. I havent done too much experimenting with it, besides one track, so im not exactly sure how well it compares to the original [i've been meaning to test it against the waves puigchild, but havent yet and want to upload this patch before this thread completely dies.] Hopefully it's close. Peace.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/423 ... t-Vert.cmb