Alesis Compressor 3630

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sweetnubs said:
p.s. jslator...
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p.s. sweetnubs, I get the impression that you read a bunch of stuff on the internet and then repeat it here trying to make it look like you know what you're talking about. What kind of a self-important ass comes to a home recording forum to brag about his expensive gear and to tell everyone that anything without "transformers, class A circuitry and discrete point to point wiring" isn't worth using? My guess is that you live in your parents' basement and maybe have a Tascam Portastudio.
 
Drummingfreak,
You have opened Pandoras box with the 3630...God bless us all.

Hans
 
or maybe I am more like moses here to deliver from the slavery and myth that prosumer gear performs "as well as gear that costs 10x as much" maybe I am an anarchist at heart that wishes to deliver you from the orgy between advertisers, trade magazine reviewers and well known engineers who constantly endorse sometimes questionable gear. you think there are no kickbacks and backroom deals? think again. sure a lot of prosumer gear is usable, but not great. This also opens the can of worms that you need to know how to use your gear and the combination of lack of knowledge combined with the illusion that you have professional quality equipment only leads to frustration and poor recordings. Now as a learning tool it is all fine, but don't be fooled you'll get professional results. for example I recorded a classical pianist and trumpet player doing modern 20th century "classical" concertos and sonatas a few days ago. Beleive me a mxl mic and rode nt5's through an RNP into a DAW with a MOTU setup will not work for a professional quality album suitable for national release. I repeat It will not, regardless of your skill. Passable, maybe....but something worth putting your name on? nope. And don' even get me going on the recent explosion of shitty project studios that cut into the business prosfessional studios. Very few of them put out quality products which hurt the studio business in general, i.e. it leads to the vicious cylce of musicians being frustrated with a crappy recording they got at a "studio" so they decide they can do it better and all of the sudden they are instant engineers. then the cyle starts over. now slater run along and learn how to use a compressor, if you asks nicely nubaphonic may tell you how.
 
Ahhh...Mr.Rossi...You may have an advantage over the poor Americans who buy the Beringer gear over here.I dont know if its a fact, but I have heard that the Homeland Built Beringer gear is a bit different than the stuff we see here.Beafier power supplies,no real limitations to the ICs due to our laws governing testing of equipment(ie underwriters labs)...so you may have a point that the Beringer stuff you get in Germany may in fact be better than what we see here.
That being said, the Composer I tested and the two-channel compressor(mdl # ?) both had a thinness to the sound that grated me the wrong way.Sure, all its bells and whistles worked, its functionality was not my complaint..Its poor output of the orginal signal was what concerned me.
I have two Symetrix comps from quite a few years back that blow these and the 3630 away as far as sound quality.And these can be had for a song.For value I'd look at these before considering an alesis(which i DO own one of) or a Beringer(which I sold one of).....just my HO...as always YMMV...


AND nubs....MOSES was a GREAT NBA player for many years...
 
3630 Experience

My experience with the 3630 is it's ok if you're running something with a continuous sound through it (overall compression for a PA during a live gig). If, however, you're running an instrument through the 3630 for recording, I've found the 3630 has an audible pop/distortion every time the compression kicks in even with the noise gate turned off.

Anyone out there have experience with the Avalon compressors?

Cheers,
Ron
 
ok you guys are right. forget someone like the nubmeister who has used a slew of different compressors. The late 90's is a watermark in compression. The RNC has arrived. Forget the pre-RNC years of compression. It is only $200 and is just as good as anything that came before. It is all you need, no really. I wonder why professional studios aren't filled with racks of these things. . . . .
 
May I quote from a chat at prosoundweb?

"Harvey: Would you care to comment on your friendship with Mark McQuilken?

Rupert Neve: Harvey -- yes, I first met Mark some years ago when Evelyn and I came to live in Wimberly He is a brilliant designer who has helped me from time to time especially to understand the mysteries of the digital domain. I hold Mark and his family high on my list of friends."

This concludes my participation in this particular thread.
 
So nubs doesn't like it.

So what? What the fuck is wrong with that?

Different strokes for different folks . . . different peters for different pumpkin eaters . . . ( ? ? ? )

I don't like pink. My friend, Kelly, seems to like pink. My girlfriend is pretty much indifferent to pink, I believe.

I can't stand Pink, the recording artist, by the way. Millions of people seem to disagree with me.
 
@ cavedog:

No, the Behringer stuff we get in Germany is Chinese built as well. They stopped producing in Germany in the early 90s. There's nothing wrong with the power supplies, btw. They are powerful enough, and the voltage is switchable on most of them (on all that I own, but there seem to be units built for one particular market that are non-swichable).

The Composers I own (MDX2000 and 2100) don't sound thin at all. The newer Composer pro models sound a bit different. Perhaps less beafy, but others will say more transparent. Wile I prefer the older models, the user comments on the "Pro" model, at least on Harmony Central, are more positive.

I think the Composer is perfect for channel compression or on subgroups. I wouldn't use it on the sum, but then again there's hardly an affordable compressor that is good enough to use on the sum.
 
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