Top 20 compressors of all time

Pretty good list, think the transient designer should have a place in there though.

Where oh where are all the Aphex? non VU DBX 160? Crane song

I had a hard time continuing after seeing the 3630 on the first page.....

I know it doesn't belong on the list because it's the one I actually have. 

To me, the most astounding thing is this statement: "The 2500 doesn’t come cheap ($2,995 RRP), but Waves’ (relatively) faithful modeled recreation offers a similar flavour for a considerably more affordable $300."

Is there another industry where there is marketing of the same product where you can get a 90% discount and a promise of nearly the same product?

I'd never heard of the BA-6A, but surfed around and people claim that the "Ramble ON" acoustic was done with a BA-6A. So, if true, if anybody wants to describe the BA-6a's contribution to the sound that would be cool. Always trying to learn....

I own the grandad of the BA-6A, the RCA-86a, which has been modded to be more like the missing link between the RCA 86A-2 and the BA-6A. Gates had a similar limiter called the M-3529, and as time passed and audio needs grew, the Sta-Level and others were designed and built. The rest is history. The BA-6A had many uses from tactical wartime efforts to typical radio broadcast. I tried to trace the origins of my RCA-86A's original purchase but hit a road block in the search. More than likely, as hot as they were originally designed, mine drove a signal for up to 30 miles for telephones of the day. Just running through those transformers is sometimes all I need to do to get a slight color happening and most times, I rarely hit -4 on peaks unless I am trying to tame something like a shrilly fiddle.

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