30th August 2012
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#1 | | Gear interested
Joined: Dec 2006 Location: Edinburgh
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Thread Starter  | Modern FET compressors with some balls??
Hey all...
Can any modern stereo FET's do the Compex sound? Thinking maybe the FCS P4dms?
Struggling to find a machine i want to drop any cash on.
Thanks in advance
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#2 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Oct 2006 Location: Chicago, IL USA
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Daking FET II.
QRS audio is now making the ADR Compex again as well.
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#3 | | Gear addict
Joined: Jun 2011 Location: Planet Earth
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is the QRS is anything like the original (wich it probably is spot on) its sure to be a fet comp with serious balls.love compex´s.
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#4 | | Lives for gear
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Hi,
The P4DMS has some serious balls, but it is a VCA compressor. Not a FET.
Best
Roger
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#5 | | Lives for gear
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Not stereo, but the BAC500 Fet comp has a ton of balls. It can be subtle, though not as subtle as an 1176, or add a rediculous amount of balls and attitude to a track. Between that and my 1176s, I can get a multitude of sounds. And when one doesn't work, the other usually does.
JROD
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#6 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by RFZ DUDE  is the QRS is anything like the original (wich it probably is spot on) its sure to be a fet comp with serious balls.love compex´s. | it is almost exactly like the original except for a few upgrades.
i dont think they use the carbon pots that are in the original, which is an upgrade for sure!
not sure of other variances....... but they are very close as far as i can tell.
i got to play with one for a few minutes on drums and it sounded great.
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#7 | | Gear addict
Joined: Jun 2011 Location: Planet Earth
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Originally Posted by skybluerental it is almost exactly like the original except for a few upgrades.
i dont think they use the carbon pots that are in the original, which is an upgrade for sure!
not sure of other variances....... but they are very close as far as i can tell.
i got to play with one for a few minutes on drums and it sounded great. | cool!compex´s are wonderful compressors & you gotta love the limit knob..
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#8 | | Lives for gear
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The Chandler Germanium compressor is FET based, and has big, long, dangly, hairy balls (with popping cherries on top). You'll need a pair though, unless you want to have only one ball.
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#9 | | Gear nut
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check out the Overstayer compressor, it's pretty sick!
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#10 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Dec 2008 Location: St. Louis, MO
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Originally Posted by Babaluma The Chandler Germanium compressor is FET based, and has big, long, dangly, hairy balls (with popping cherries on top). You'll need a pair though, unless you want to have only one ball. | I prefer two. If one's good, two has to be better, right?
JROD
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#11 | | Lives for gear
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A pair of MoFETs..
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#12 | | Gear nut
Joined: Oct 2006 Location: Brooklyn, NY
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Purple audio action.
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#13 | | Lives for gear
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I can tell you the daking fet 3 is really nice. Punchy and big! Hard to make that box sound bad. Check It out.
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31st August 2012
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#14 | | Gear maniac
Joined: Mar 2009
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1176 clones got plenty balls in my opinion. Here's a quick hard compression processing I did with my stereo unit: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/70609905/bounce.mp3
Slow attack and rather fast release as the usual drum processing.
It's like an original Urei Rev A with lots of hair on its balls!
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2 Weeks Ago
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#15 | | 500 series nutjob
Joined: Nov 2004 Location: 500 series Guru SKANK! ; )
Posts: 11,293
| Quote:
Originally Posted by jrod9900 Not stereo, but the BAC500 Fet comp has a ton of balls. It can be subtle, though not as subtle as an 1176, or add a rediculous amount of balls and attitude to a track. Between that and my 1176s, I can get a multitude of sounds. And when one doesn't work, the other usually does.
JROD | ditto!  Quote:
Originally Posted by jrod9900 I prefer two. If one's good, two has to be better, right?
JROD | And if two is good, well four is better!
Just got another Pete's Place Audio BAC this past week!!
also decided the buy Wes Audio's B76: ) | |
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#16 | | 70% Coffee, 30% Beer
Joined: Dec 2006 Location: Quincy, MA
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Originally Posted by cubehead Purple audio action. |
Love the MC77 too..
Punchy and Real
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2 Weeks Ago
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#17 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Sep 2006 Location: Minneapolis |
The Splice should be thrown in the mix now as well.
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