Tube compressors/limiters
 

Hi, does anyone have or know where to find any decent valve compressor schematics, primarily for a software recording studio that needs a nice hardware valve compressor.

mono or stereo, anythign would be great at this point as ive been unable to find anything

COMPRESSOR
 

Hi,

Hope this helps you out:

http://recordist.com/ampex/compschm.html

Rgds,:)

A good place to start is here;

http://www.triodeel.com/studio.htm

also a good primer is here

http://www.tangible-technology.com/dynamics_index.html


Don't build a unit that needs a 6386!

happy dynamic range squashin'
Robert Morin

hey thanks guys!

anymore?

also has anybody tried making one of these? im interested to know how they would compare to other similar models..

There was a tube compressor in audioxpress last year (2001) but I don't have the issue at hand to tell you the month. It was a moderately complex beast but used cheapish tubes iirc. If I find the issue, I'll post it.

I think the best is to start building an optical (!) compressor

Here's a good description of doing your own optical tube compressor, the Teletronics LA2-A:

http://www.americanproaudio.net/LA2/index.html

also

http://recording.org/users/kev/BLA2a.htm

Jakob Erland
Gyraf Audio
www.gyraf.dk