VLA use for hard limiting(or hard knee)

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If you're talking about the ART ProVLA, it's fastest attack time is 2ms @ 20dB attenuation, and maximum attenuation is listed as 30dB (though the gain reduction knob is labeled as infinite at the full rotation.)

While not really hawked as a true limiter, it throws up enough of a wall and does so fast enough for many applications. It depends on the application.

G.
 
Thanks Glen I was gonna try it for Drums. Running my mics into a mixer and then analog out the mixer to the VLA, give it an overall punch and what not.
 
RCAGuy05 said:
Thanks Glen I was gonna try it for Drums. Running my mics into a mixer and then analog out the mixer to the VLA, give it an overall punch and what not.
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Again, it depends on what effect you're really looking for, but I use my VLA on the kick drum regularly. If I'm tracking a whole rhythm section at once, it is typical for me to run an electric bass through one channel of the VLA and kick through the other (channels un-linked and set seperately).

G.
 
RCAGuy05 said:
Is it at all possible?
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yep but it sure does get cotton-y sounding after a few dbs...

yeah...hmm... i don't know what that means either...but i find it's most useful when doing not too much...

hard knee: doesn't sound like it to me even with the fast attack in. i've never tried getting that thing to "pop" like a fast vca comp though...

Mike
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
If you're talking about the ART ProVLA, it's fastest attack time is 2ms.....
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That doesn't sound like an awefully fast time to me. I would think most transients fall within those 2ms, like the pick sound of a guitar, or the K sound of a vocal. PErhaps not, but still, most limiters that are used like this are waaaaaay faster (like, a fraction of a ms).
 
I have messed with my VLA for many asession and have yet to have a good 'hard limiting' sound come out of it. Its not a real tube compressor, nor does it have the compressing finesse to hard limit with no pumping artifacts. Just save up for a distressor or LA-2A! :p
 
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