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Major Tom is not your ordinary compressor, no sir! It was designed with very specific goals in mind, and blew completely past them. We like Major Tom…can you tell?
Major Tom is intended to be easy to use: there are no attack and release controls…the values vary depending on the level of the signal relative to its threshold. These values are very finely tuned to make it as musical as possible, without requiring a wall full of gold records to hit the right settings.
The attack/release settings are inspired by one of the true “stealth” vintage compressors, the dbx* 160 – you’ve heard it on hit records time and time again. Musicality: That’s the second key. Major Tom WILL pump, but it should do so in a musical, rhythmic manner.
I was just wondering the same thing about Event Horizon. Haven't really had a chance to dig into Major Tom yet.
...from the outside world as The Rocket (but WE love it, yesss, Preciousss, we doessss...), that demonstrates how we roll, Major Tom was developed almost entirely from a description of how the variable attack and release worked on a particular hardware unit. I had a few points on a curve and literally played...
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