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Based on 4 Reviews
My absolute favourite compressor
I don't know why. There's something about this one that makes it real easy to get instantly good results, whereas other compressors are far harder to use for me personally. I wouldn't use it in all situations for sure, but I use it a lot on drums and it honestly just works out really well like 95% of the time.
There's just a character that behaves real nice with transients like that, maybe it's one of the Analog settings (but if it is, I don't know what it's even emulating, you just have 4 modes and OFF)
Much like most of the other Waves stuff I own, I got this for free via a promotion of theirs, and well this is certainly my most used freebie of theirs even to this day.
you made me want to revisit this, I never use it and I do compress in the box at times for various reasons.... I think a lot of people have a lot of trouble with compressors because they haven't touched a real one or only cheaper VCA units, they're ment to solve problems but do it indifferent ways, or rather the hardware all has flaws you can exploit because they're better at a certain job on a certain type of sound or maybe have a flaw that cna be exploited creatively like to duck microphone bleed in overheads by relying on a sluggish opto design to miss those percussion transients and then grab the background noise down for example....or certain things 'group' transients certain ways on busses and you kinda hafta bond with certain tools.... or I'm off my nut. Either way.
Meh
It just doesn't really sound good. The interface isn't very inspiring either.
Another GREAT WAVES product.
The versatility that this plugin offers is beyond description. With multiple applications stemming from each of its modes a variety of 'emotions' can be expressed sonically. Great for Parallel drum and bass tracks (but the creative options are endless....!)