TC electronis Triple C

[Roel]

Anyone used this unit?

The M-one and D-two seem to be nice products. But I was talking to a guy at a local youth-music-thingy, that offers rehearsel rooms, has got a nice demo studio (roland setup, digital mixer with 3 vsr880's, it's a demopoint for TC, so they got all their products, even remotes etc...), has got a try-out room, with a capacity of 200 people, and, this is really nice, all the lines from their (fixed!!) PA go directly to the studio for live recordings!!

So, I was talking to this guy. I counted 5 triple C's, in their PA-rack. Next concert(2 weeks later): none. They had noise problems with these devices. The dealer told them it had to be their cabling, but they didn't believed it, got dbx compressors instead, and now it works fine.

Anyone had trouble with it?

 

[The Axis]

I have an M-1. It sounds good, but is extremely fragile and flimsey construction. So be forwarned. The Triple-C looks very similar in construction.
I considered the Triple-C when looking for a multiband compressor. Unfortunately, it DOES NOT DO what its advertising implies. The parameters are all slaved to one band's settings, so it is not truly independent compression of the three bands. One band invariably exceeds the threshold first (usually low), and is compressed. The other bands are passed (which is a good thing) unaffected, until the reach the SAME THRESHOLD, which, of course never happens in real life. So it really is just compression of the loudest band of the three, with the *possibility* of compressing the other bands if they ever reach the threshold (which never happens).
When I wrote an e-mail to TCE about this, to clarify, they blew it off completely....like "Hey they sell well anyway !"
With proper settings, you can probably make the most of this, but it isn't what a multiband is supposed to do. I would keep looking.
DBX and Behringer also make multi-band comps.

Peace,
Rick