TDR Molot GE on Sale for $19!

Can’t say I know. Saw this get some love on an analog sounding plugin thread I posted so have been looking at it here and there.

More tweakability. 

You can set it to do almost anything but on krokodil. SSL bus, Distressor, Daking, smart c2, optos, diode bridges, dbx160 spikes, it can do it all but way more aggressively and hug the material better.

First of all use it on insane, turn off mid eq, saturation, limiter, turn on feedback because molot is linear and not log.

Attack is the rate of gain reduction. Alpha/sigma is how slow the attack of the initial transient is and warps the attack low pass filter between exponential and sigmoid curves. The sigma lets the transient be shaved slower and therefor has less distortion.

Release is the faster release unless you use instant mode, whip adds as third even faster release for shape peaks while relaxed will slow down the end of the secondary release even further.

Secondary detector always use imo. Secondary attack is how long secondary release charges for in terms of time. You can make this bleed into the main attack for a slower secondary attack like daking and ssl bus auto release. Secondary release is what you think

Now knee… 50% is where to start. Harder knees expand like the dbx 160 and og molot hard knee. Yes this thing is crazy. Vlad G is a genius. Dude. He rocks.

Saturation is sicko and sounds warm and takes highs and lows off so eq after. Maybe filter the dc offset. Limiter is a cool soft clipper. Sick stuff. Can make transients big with sigma on hard knee the clip them off. Mega cool. Works unlike molot og where they would come back like l1…

If you want an ssl… buy the glue. Honestly just drop the hundred. If you want an 1176 buy hardware. If you want daking comp smoothness and sound buy hardware. Honestly though this is the bomb, the hammer, and is up there with kotelnikov, the Sony / sonnox stuff, waves renaissance compressor, Weiss ds1 as digital classics. Read the manuals. The tdr manuals are good like the sonnox and the old waves ones with the greyscale front pages. None of these developers with the good manuals fuck around at all. Old Waves pre emulation bullshit, Sony Oxford / Sonnox, TDR, Sound Radix, Weiss Engineering, Cytomic. They do not fuck around at all.

A bit off topic, but, because The Glue was mentioned, Andy Simper has started to work on the Glue HD. He bought the DIYRE GBus compressor and also got a Stam. He's going to measure every component in the DIYRE as he builds it and he's going to model the harmonic distortion too. That's going to be cool. I think right now it's the best SSL plugin, however, if I recall correctly he modeled it on a different, less faithful clone.

Malot GE is a good compressor (and I bought it), but just due to the amount of options in it, I rarely use it. I always end up with a "lesser" compressor that gets me done faster. Probably just my impatience but I don't like messing with endless controls.

I could use to do a deep dive and watch some good YouTube videos on it.  When I've use it (and the free version) i've always gotten a good sound, even if I didn't go crazy trying to squeeze every last drop of of Malot GE's options. 

That is interesting.  I find the Molot very easy to use and quick to get a great sound.   The Massenburg plugin comp is difficult for me to understand for some reason, so I reach for the Kotelnikov more when I want that cleaner sound.

I do wish PB would list how long the sale is for (or am I missing that?). I should just buy it but prefer to demo first, and won’t have time till this weekend.

yeah me too. i gotta sit down and make myself 2-3 presets and be done.

Ha!  Touché…

Edited: I put my money where my mouth is and bought it...now gotta try it!