What’s the word on the Klerk Teknik KT2A?

Yeah I have one. Haven't used it much in a while.

It's fine as an optical compressor. You're kidding yourself it you want it to sound like an LA2A though. It does not. But is a perfectly good optical style compressor that works well. But doesn't have the tone of an LA2A, not by a mile.

In this way, I think its actually a different compressor.

If you go into with that expectation, you won't be disappointed. Not sure you'll use it a ton either....but it works to hold things steady in a nice way.


more discussion on it and the kt76 here: realgearonline.com/thread/10828/kt76-kt2a-any-good

Last time I mentioned Klark Teknik on RGO, people got out the pitchforks and torches, so look out for that! I, myself, am not totally opposed to trying one sometime. Either the 2A or the 76.

Just saw a used one for super cheap…but I’ll most likely just skip.

Any thoughts on their "1176" version?
Thanks, Chris

I've had the 2A-KT on order for some time, originally said to be available in October, now saying February (Sweetwater). I've only had the online listening comparisons to go by, but I liked it better than the Warm, so it seemed like a low-threshold way to start. And some of the other low-ish end $1k) boutique clone were back-ordered till who-knows-when anyway.

I've had the 76-KT for a few months. I'm not looking to grunge up drums, I just want something clean and useful while tracking vocals. It's surprisingly clean and effective, considering the cost ($299, now $329). I have little experience tracking with compressors, but I can tell when something makes the sound worse, isn't useful, or is obtrusive. It seems to been a quite valid tool, for impulse-buy money. Maybe some day I'll find out what I'm missing by not paying a lot more, but for now it's some place to start. I was more interested in the 2A, but the 76 came in first, and surprised me that it was as good as it is.

So, I believe everyone who says the real thing (or top clones) is so much better, but I don't know how much any of these things will do for me till I try them and use them. The KT's allowed me to get EQP, 76, and (eventually) 2A for a price I wasn't going to cry over. Then I figure I can always move up, one at a time, with anything that I end up liking to work with a lot. In the meantime, I can tell that the 76-KT doesn't sound like an 1176, but it does sound like a clean and usable compressor that didn't cost a lot. Hoping the same for the 2A. 

Haha!!   . Some people are vegetarians Rob, and that might work for them. LOL.  It doesn't cost $4.5k and it works, so......  I guess I take it for what it is.  Another opto comp that isn't really what the "numbers" on the faceplate say it is - but one that's not as embarrassing as some inexpensive comps.  

Its kinda like mics.  How many mics have a *47* in the name?  How many come even within 20% of a real *47*?  Dozens, and I have a few that I can put to good use, even though only the Heiserman gets *close* for me....

It's not the first, second, third or even fourth comp I reach for, but it does get used on occasion.  Useful enough that I keep it in the racks, even though I need more rack space....  

Exactly
I think we agree.
All I'm saying is I want a behringer 2600.

<thumbsup!!!!>. Agreed.  Especially on the 2600!  

I had a rev f 1176ln and i sold it a while back as it added too much hair on everything. Went down the warm audio 76 track and thought there might have been something wrong with it so sold it to a friend who loved it. Bought another warm audio and it sounded the same . Got use to it and then meters went hay wire. Knobs felt bad. Took a plunge and bought a kt76. Knobs feel great, needle works fine, sounds great.
So i bought a kt2a and never taken it out of the box since getting the weight tank comp and the AS vari mu comp.
but i cant bring myself to sell the kt2a just yet.,

It reacts like a LA-2A. It doesn't have the box tone of one though.

Just speculating, but vintage iron probably makes the biggest differnce, followed by the tubes. I do know that vintage GE tube in the first position makes a heck of a bit difference and makes it sound much less modern.

I've owned two ART VLAs, one stock, and one that I replaced the input section with Stancor transformers. They sound cool, but nothing like a LA-2A.

The KT-2A is a great tracking compressor for bass. It also looks a lot like a famous compressor that sounds different.