Alesis 3630 Compressor

[dj rich]

I've been offered one for £60.
Does anyone have any experience of using one, or any knowledge/opinion on how good or not it will be.
Daze - this could be one for u! Mr. Hardware User!

[Sol]

I've got a Behringer composer Pro - picked it up new for £59.

Does the job :thumbs:

[dj rich]

Cheers Sol, sounds like a nice inexpensive piece of kit.
Going over to check it out this aft. and hear the results.
Just wanted some info. as ammo b4 I parted with £'s.
How do you utilise yours?
I'm looking at soundcard line out to compressor to soundcard line in - just for light mix compression, but will probably look into recording each necessary individual track.
It's all new to me this hardware bizniz!

[woody]

wont that give very high latency?

[daze]

used one of those when i worked at spirit - tidy little unit [probably slightly better build quality than the composer] and a few more features if memory serves [better gateing].

just check everything works.

does your sound card have jack outs?

could be some noise issues if you mess around with farty minijacks - latency wont be affected though :D

[Djxample]

Bought one a few days ago, it hasnt arrived yet unfortunately so a cant give you my opinion, ive been told they are really good for the money.

[dj rich]

Thanx for the insights - I was lucky enough to give it a run the other day at a mates (he got tha necessary leads!) tried a few things - overall mix comp, bassline comp...sounded pretty good and like you say daze the gating feature seemed to be a fairly strong feature.
The most noticeable difference I picked up was that when we set it to a low ratio to compress the overall mix the mid-range of the output seemed significantly warmer and defined to without as well as a general punchyness about the output.
We used Reason as our source for test.
I think I might go for it even if it just means being limited at the moment to just compressing the overall mix - 'cause the difference is so much better than without and sounds piles better.
Just need to get a new soundcard, mixing desk, etc. etc. lol!!!!!

[daze]

yup, a bit of mild compression on the mix can work wonders. usually a 3:1 ratio and threshold to give you between 4/6 db of gain reduction does the trick with a shortish attack and longer release. but hey, there are no rules!! ;) ;)

[dj rich]

Like they say mate - rule of thumb then play it by ear.
Don't ya just luv old sayings.
Wot happened to Done and Dusted - Same old, Same old?
In for a penny, in for a £!!!!
STOP.
:D

[daze]

Originally posted by dj rich
Wot happened to Done and Dusted - Same old, Same old?
:D


he he, just a private joke mate :D