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Originally Posted by Chaellus  i also compress well going in as well and again at mixingb ut there are other compressers in the budget range that will do better...alesis 3630 isnt one of them |
Agreed, I'll buck against the trend and say that THE RIGHT cheap compressor will still beat out the sound and depth that you can get from all but the ABSOLUTE BEST of the plugin world.
I've got a couple of RNC's and I use them on the way in all the time... not that they're the best comp out there of course, but they do work to give me the desired gain staging going into my PT rig. I then use compressors to give me what I'd consider the final touches... essentially layering amounts of compression on the way in and inside of the box to establish depth in a mix... it's a technique I've figured out only in the last month or so... but I do believe it's made my mixes that much better.
Would I do the same with a 3630? probably not....
But I certainly would with an Ashly CLX52 and that isn't a tremendously expensive comp either...