Solus » Gear Demos & Reviews http://www.solusmusic.com Don\'t Harsh on my Mellow Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:00:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en ©Solus matt.coogan@gmail.com (Solus) matt.coogan@gmail.com(Solus) 1440 Don't Harsh on my Mellow Solus Solus matt.coogan@gmail.com No no http://www.solusmusic.com/podcastlogosmall.jpg Solus http://www.solusmusic.com 144 144 Hear the Chandler Germanium Compressor in this video Demo http://www.solusmusic.com/2008/08/hear-the-chandler-germanium-compressor-in-this-video-demo/ http://www.solusmusic.com/2008/08/hear-the-chandler-germanium-compressor-in-this-video-demo/#comments Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:06:23 +0000 matt.coogan http://www.solusmusic.com/2008/08/hear-the-chandler-germanium-compressor-in-this-video-demo/

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Check it, you can hear the unit working. First off, this isn’t the best material. The drumloop is already compressed, mixed, mastered, sampled, and resampled. However, It does illustrate some of the sound.

Bass, full mixes, guitar, etc will be up soon. This unit excels on any type of material. For now, delight in the crushing percussive pressure of this here demo.

The Chandler is an FET style compressor with germanium amp and crazy unique features such as wet / dry for parallel compression, and different diode for changing the knee and character of the compression. tweaked out.

But the real purpose of putting this up hear is to give you an idea of what it sounds like. I’m really not passing judgment and ideally I’ll have many other demos up for you to compare and contrast, my only obstacle is time.

This video was originally shared on blip.tv by solusmusic with a No license (All rights reserved) license.
]]> http://www.solusmusic.com/2008/08/hear-the-chandler-germanium-compressor-in-this-video-demo/feed/ UAD-1 product review part 1 http://www.solusmusic.com/2007/02/uad-1-product-review-part-1/ http://www.solusmusic.com/2007/02/uad-1-product-review-part-1/#comments Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:43:57 +0000 matt.coogan http://www.solusmusic.com/2007/02/uad-1-product-review-part-1/ Universal audio’s UAD-1 is probably old news to a lot of folks , but I just picked one up and it’s pretty amazing. I own the waves and they sound great, but it took me awhile to appreciate their power and to understand what the heck i was doing. Software is not forgiving, it requires deliberate operation. I thought maybe I should leave we enough alone and not get involved in more software and a proprietary dsp.

Because of Universal audio’s rep and because I love my 1176’s sooo much I went out on a limb and tried the UAD. The only to describe it… sick!! The eqs have really really really smooth highs and nice round bottom. The 1176se sounds really really good too. This is basically my initial comments on this product but really it is worth every cent. I’ll delve into it more at a later date. I’m having too much fun mixing right now.

Definitely check the neve stuff and the roland space echo, oh and the plate 140. I own a space echo and this is pretty damn close. Actually the software version is more fun to use, with sync and automation.

Check it out on UA’s site….

http://www.uaudio.com/products/uad-dsp_menu.html

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