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Originally Posted by MJGreene Audio
As for the insides I do believe that they are 100% the same. The only thing I have seen change over the years is the meter and the knobs. All the guts are the same to the best of my knowledge.
On a side note. If I had any idea that Tchad Blake and some other fans would send the value of these thru the roof like they are I would have bought up the studio that had 20 of them sitting in a storage room for sale at $50.00 a piece about 14 years ago. At least I only paid $50.00 each for mine!!!!!
Its just stupid what the feeding frenzy has done now.
MIchael Greene
I have a friend who picked up a new one and while good it did not quite do the same thing as the older ones. I have some early ones (sn 9 & 11 -- bought those and a third from PAD for under $1000 w/a stereo strapping module and a manual thrown in! Tchad got my third one), and it may just be do to age and drifting out of calibration over the years. A tech friend told me it was a nightmare to get it to 'factory calibration'. While I'm not sure how many Tchad eventually bought [maybe he has 5 total??], he was the
last guy who wanted to see those go up in price. In fact, when it was first mentioned that he used them in an interview, it was said by a producer he had worked with!
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Please be aware that this compressor is an effect.
It does not sound "good."
It sounds bad in a cool way.
Do not expect it to sound anything like an 1176. The 1176 is super-hifi by comparison. The 610 is a wild, strange, arcane compressor that, by current standards, falls way short of full fidelity.
Chad, I have heard a few that are broken and sound 'single ended' almost. One of mine had a bad cap when I first got it, and sounded really thin. I think if the basic audio path is in good shape, you can do a lot with them -- over the years I've gotten a lot of use out of mine, although i agree it is not for everything. Kinda more toward the Chandler EMI compressor end of things than the 160X end. The Slope control is kind of interesting in how it changes the tone, attack, and compression at the same time [whether or not that was the intent, I don't know].
But $1800.00 for one?? Not for me...
Cheers,
John