Guitar signal path advice needed

[speigas]

Hi everybody,

I'm looking for an advice as for which compressor should I get to finalize the signal path tracking electric guitar.

This is how it looks for now: guitar - studio tool M1 - amp - royer 121 - chandler tg channel - ???compressor???

Thank you!

[speigas]

not a single advice?

Originally Posted by speigas

Hi everybody,

I'm looking for an advice as for which compressor should I get to finalize the signal path tracking electric guitar.

This is how it looks for now: guitar - studio tool M1 - amp - royer 121 - chandler tg channel - ???compressor???

Thank you!

[Flying_Dutchman]

get a tape machine, really

[rogerbrain]

depends on the sound you want. I use a RNC when i don't want to hear the comp and a purple action or the avalon 737 when I want to hear it a little and an altec 1612 when i want it to be like an effect .. if you are just taming transients without artifacts a stomp box limiter (Boss makes a great one..very quiet) in front of the amp works best for me. the neve portico does a pretty nice job too... if the comp misses one or two (better than grabbing things it should not ) I just automate the track ..that works quite well too

[speigas]

Originally Posted by rogerbrain

depends on the sound you want. I use a RNC when i don't want to hear the comp and a purple action or the avalon 737 when I want to hear it a little and an altec 1612 when i want it to be like an effect .. if you are just taming transients without artifacts a stomp box limiter (Boss makes a great one..very quiet) in front of the amp works best for me. the neve portico does a pretty nice job too... if the comp misses one or two (better than grabbing things it should not ) I just automate the track ..that works quite well too

Thank you Roger! I'm somewhat leaning towards crane song trakker. Any experience tracking guitar with the trakker?

[rogerbrain]

Originally Posted by speigas

Thank you Roger! I'm somewhat leaning towards crane song trakker. Any experience tracking guitar with the trakker?

none ... loan it to me after you get it.

personally i think any decent gear will do a good job on guitar.. that is the easy stuff to me, but I am a 'well seasoned guitarist' so i can usually put things down the way I want them ..Bass and live drums and other low frequency things that I want to stay in a very narrow dynamic range, YET have good dynamic energy are the hard stuff to me. .. .but that is for another thread i am sure..

[Fletcher]

My two favorite guitar compressors are the "Komit" [haven't heard the Radial version yet, but the original BMD version is awesome for guitar] and the FMR Audio PBC-6A... the Purple Audio MC-77 is my other serious GTR fav... and the for that matter the "Action" is no slouch either.

Peace.

[carlheinz]

I would say if you want to tame a few minor peaks here or there you can use a wide rage of things....BUT Less is more or none if you can help it here.Distorted guitars can be tricky so it helps to have a hpf on the detector at times

Iv'e used ..

UA-1176 Kind of a standard...or purple as mentioned
Valley people gainbrain
DBX 16OX
AVALON 737
alesis 3636...my first....but hey gotta start somewhere.
Neve 33609
SSL..it was in the desk...
Chandler TG
LA-2A ..on a clean gtr
Nothing at all

[soundsundergroun]

I really like distressor though an opto like la2a. Regularly use 121 though that compression chain. Distressor to even out the levels and LA2a for color and weight. The optical part is cool when a chord kicks in (as on a chorus) because you get that initial transient from the slow attack that can give that new section of a song punch.