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Old 20th December 2009   #16
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QES Labs Variable-Gm:
I was quite taken with it.
For me, the real test was the stuff.
It sounds terrific. It's great, and I love it.
It was a no-brainer for me. Out of the three units, the variable-gm was hands-down the best.

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Originally Posted by Shy
The Variable-Gm to my taste is too distorted in this example and loses too much punch in the attacks, but I think that's mainly because the compression setting was too extreme. I'd like to hear it with settings closer to the ES-8 example.
It seems that the variable-gm has a slower attack setting.
Anyway I liked it, loved to hear the original attack.

Probably a blind test would have been useful.
Anyway, the QES labs unit wins for now.
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