Tube compressors/limiters

[Optical]

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

 

[fdegrove]

COMPRESSOR

Hi,

Hope this helps you out:

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

Rgds,🙂

 

[Robert Morin]

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

 

[Optical]

hey thanks guys!

anymore?

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

 

[Brett]

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.

 

[gyraf]

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