Howie Weinberg, the famous mastering engineer who has a studio on our campus, let us in on a little secret: He uses his Red not for compression, but just to use the output gain to get that amazing effect! So Slate decided to do something that the original unit cannot, put that output transformer effect on a knob called Drive. After more examination, we realized that this was due to a series of nonlinear reactions caused by the output transformer. The attack and auto-release work in an interesting way and are very musical, but the real magic they found was in the output section! They found that just pushing the makeup gain a few dB did some insane things to the sound! A little push and things got a ton more punchy, fat, and aggressive. Slate Digital analyzed the Red and found out that it was indeed a very unique beast. WOW! One of the clearest, punchiest sounding rock mixes he'd ever heard. Ratio 1.5:1, attack around 10/11 o'clock, auto release, compressing just 2-3db. This was puzzling because Slate usually associated a faster attack with a loss of transient punch, but if you've heard Chris's mixes you know that they are the exact opposite of that! Slate bought the unit with input & output transformers, put it on his mix in the settings that Chris showed him. Slate thought it was odd, this compressor nobody else seemed to really use, and it was on a setting at 1.5:1 and the attack looked very fast for a mix buss compressor. This compressor is based on the classic Red-faced compressor that has been a favorite of mix legend Chris Lord Alge, who first showed it to Steven Slate when visiting his studio years ago. VBC is perfect for adding a professional final touch to your mixes. Careful attention was paid to recreating the unique nonlinearities of the circuit paths that give each compressor its distinct tone - including their transformers, tubes, VCAs, amplifiers, phase distortions, harmonic distortions, and timing. Virtual Buss Compressors is a suite of three unique-sounding dynamic processors that are modeled from some of the most classic mix buss compressors in the audio industry.
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