Aphex 651

They also made the Expressor, Dominator, Compellor, Exciter and Expander/Gate for the DBX 900/Aphex 9000 series which are seriously cheap. For people concerned about rack space you could 9 channels of dynamics for very little money in 3RU

So...got it, but haven't even hooked it up. Weird...the power cord is about 1' long. Gonna have to find an extension chord.

If what you’re after is the effect of compression you don’t want it on an aux, a comp on an aux is going to be more of a comb filter / phase effect.
Ideally yeah throw me a rack full of comps across the inserts of most channels, but if I’m starting with 1 it’s probably either going to end up either on the main vocal insert or on a bus insert and I will mix mono.

Just racked up a 661 I bought from RGO'er howie (thanks Howie, working great!) and it's just as advertised. I also wasn't sure it was working at first it's so transparent. The lights are moving but... 

Anyway, I was looking up typical settings people use and came across an old SoS review that listed as a con that it was "costly." That made me chuckle since they're very cheap nowadays.

So, anyone remember what these guys went for when they were new?

Have several plus a couple of Compellors and a Dominator.
Especially good on acoustic instruments where you don’t want to hear them working.

But sonically 180 degrees opposite of a distressor.

those look good. Sounds like a take off on some of the THAT design notes with something that’s a clipper for sharp peaks, faster peak compressor for shorter ones, and rms leveler with a blackmer detector and you can make it thise even more program dependent if you want

Kotelnikov just has the improved rms detector and the deliberately super aggressive peak detector. You can use yin and yang to make the rectifier partially half wave and let up on how aggressive it is but otherwise attack it is what it is on GE and Insane. Peak release automatically speeds up and RMS release slows down. There’s no crazy way to make it ease up on shaping peaks like Weiss which has attack/release before threshold (softube one has a great limiter for the micro peaks to raise the gain up into like how you could push ren comp output into l1 but this is far better) or Molot with the sigma curve and letting you clip off the micro peaks later with the limiter.

Sadly nobody wants to buy utilitarian hardware anymore, they wouldn’t even know how to use it and just use things to mess up prerecorded samples. There are few multi detector units left that unit or aphex or the Drawmer vcas on the market anymore except for the Dangerous Compressor and cleaner more complex plugs. There are not even a lot of new program dependent things anymore. How do you sell someone who cannot use an 1176 an Elsysia Compressor or the Drawmer 1978?

Digital with no tonal change or audible IMD? Like really invisible? Sound Radix Powair. Leveler into compressor with program dependent lookahead and adaptive threshold. Look ahead always so long that it cannot distort because it moves slower than what triggered it. There’s no sound unless you use Adaptive Glue preset with leveler on two bus, set attack to zero, dig punch peak stop slider into tonal content or chunky transients, use adaptive threshold slider without the leveler at all, or use the outpit clippers / saturator. Great tool but not really a compressor so to speak. Less of a compressor than even Massenburg’s Dynamic Range Controller he insists is not a compressor.

So how good are the Expressors?
(I do like Expresso)
Chris

Too early, and not enough coffee for a 3 in one jolt.....

Chris is starting to have some competition..... LOL

To clean for an emulation to sell well. The thing about Aphex is at their best the only real dog in the line was their most infamous piece the exciter ( the big bottom part is useful). Even the later 100, budget series is very useable, just not tone monsters even if it has a tube. The clean nature put off a lot of people.


Conflict alert the Manufacturering division of Full Co , Intelix licensed the Aphex Aural Exciter circuit for some of the small install mixers.