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big raff · 10th February 2004

i'm looking to buy a compressor for £100 or below.
anyone bought one recently or have any recommendations?
i was looking at the behringer composer PRO-XL MDX2600.
cheers!

versis · 11th February 2004

i can't recommend anything, but i recently had the same plans - maybe a 4-channel compressor for playing live (2 channels to optimize the red sound darkstar gain, 2 channels to pre-master the output) - had a look at the behringer mdx4400, but i wonder if this cheap thing will do fine ... any comments, please? :-?

filthydom · 11th February 2004

It depends what you want it to do. I used to use a behringer composer on my sound system purely as a gain reduction device (to stop over enthusiastic dj's blowing the rig). In my opinion they work really well and are very transparent (at reasonable levels of gain reduction), which is what I wanted.

If you want to make things sound compressed though, you don't really want a transparent sounding compressor.... In that case have a look at the dbx 266xl which is in the same price band.

big raff · 12th February 2004

cheers filthy dom
will discover............

16th February 2004

get a used alesis 3630 and modify it. here's a link to the article: http://www.recording.org/e-mag/article_81.shtml

cheers

zongkong · 17th February 2004

piscaries - cool link!

10th February 2004	#1
big raff get lost Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: troqueer Posts: 1,535	rackmount compressor i'm looking to buy a compressor for £100 or below. anyone bought one recently or have any recommendations? i was looking at the behringer composer PRO-XL MDX2600. cheers!
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11th February 2004	#2
versis watermelon man® Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: dresden _ germany Posts: 119	i can't recommend anything, but i recently had the same plans - maybe a 4-channel compressor for playing live (2 channels to optimize the red sound darkstar gain, 2 channels to pre-master the output) - had a look at the behringer mdx4400, but i wonder if this cheap thing will do fine ... any comments, please? :-?
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11th February 2004	#3
filthydom Filthmonger Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Nottingham Posts: 94	It depends what you want it to do. I used to use a behringer composer on my sound system purely as a gain reduction device (to stop over enthusiastic dj's blowing the rig). In my opinion they work really well and are very transparent (at reasonable levels of gain reduction), which is what I wanted. If you want to make things sound compressed though, you don't really want a transparent sounding compressor.... In that case have a look at the dbx 266xl which is in the same price band.
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12th February 2004	#4
big raff get lost Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: troqueer Posts: 1,535	cheers filthy dom will discover............
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16th February 2004	#5
piscaries Posts: n/a	get a used alesis 3630 and modify it. here's a link to the article: http://www.recording.org/e-mag/article_81.shtml cheers
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17th February 2004	#6
zongkong supersuper Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 450	piscaries - cool link!
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