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Jeff, The shortest answer to the comp question is, "It depends" ;-). Probably 65% of the time its through an aux on the board pre fader. For acoustic guitar, I have a three gain stages in my mic pre (http://www.pendulumaudio.com/SPS-1.html) before the board. I apply compression through my aux. Drums.....well....I like really BIG kick sounds and ringing snares, so anything to fatten up the kick is great in my book. In a multi-instrumental world of sonic bliss, I'd apply the TC 1210 expander and a final EQ-ing to the main bus on its way out. For compressor units, or things with compressors in them, I have DBX 166 ART Pro VLA Focusrite TwinTrak TC Electronic G Major Line6 X3 Live I've used behringer compressors before and they're OK. great if you need a lot of compressors in the rack for live stuff. DBX is the tried and true. The ART Pro VLA I like quite a bit and have used since the mid nineties. It adds an interesting color to vocals that appeals to me. The TC unit is clean and quiet. great on guitar. really great on acoustic. The only thing Line6 makes that I'm really excited about is the DL-4. the X3 is a toy. Its fun to make noise with and do weird things. Its pretty easy to carry around. But the signal is dirty with alot of hiss. It goes from muddy to way too loud in a flash and is just too hard to a handle on in a live mix. controls for the onboard effects are overly simplistic and not for most of the people that lurk on looper's delight. so back to sonic maximizing ... There was a thread last week that talked about frequencies below 20hz. I don't remember the exact details, but it was talking about these freqs not being perceived as sound although potentially still being musical. It reminded me of a debate I used to have with Peter Koniuto some time ago. What Peter would do was notch out everything below 20 hz. This resulted in an increase of gain and sonic definition within the remaining frequencies. I always felt that sound did not have to be heard to be perceived - particularly when it came to these lower freqs. The results were quite interesting, nonetheless, and is still something worth trying to apply to your final mix to see what happens. I hope that helps. Jeff On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Jeff Duke <jeff_d@embarqmail.com> wrote: > hey Jeff, what kind of compressor do you use? And where do you run the eq > and compressor in your chain? I have compression on in my RP 250 but I am > going back to all dedicated effects slowly. I miss the tweakability on >the > fly of individual pedals. > > thanks, > Jeff > http://www.myspace.com/loopsinphasespace > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Lomas" <jeff.lomas@gmail.com> > To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 3:42 AM > Subject: Re: bbe sonic maximizer > > >> Jeff, >> I used the rack version in the mid-90s on a punk project. It seemed >> to "brighten" the mix a little, but I would never buy one. I've >> achieved better results with a TC Electronic 1210, a 3-band EQ, and >> some compression. >> >> Hasta, >> Jeff >> www.nightmarepuppies.com >> > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.173 / Virus Database: 270.8.1/1734 - Release Date: >10/20/2008 > 7:25 AM > > -- --------------------------- (504) 613-0837 Skype: whsp3r Chain Tape Profile: http://tinyurl.com/6ltw9p Twitter Blog: http://www.twitter.com/jefflomas/ Cigar Wishlist: http://tinyurl.com/5u2scv