Hi All,
Sorry I haven't had a worthwhile update sooner. (Not even sure this one will be that worthwhile!
) But there were a couple more good Qs for us and I thought I could give an update of where we are:
We are writing the manual as we speak! Here's some info on the modes:
Default Ratio, Attack Min/Max, Release Min/Max:
VELVET- Vari-mu, 75ms- 225ms, 250ms - 3.75s
FLOAT - ~3:1 with opto-style slope, 0.75ms - 125 ms, 30ms - 6s
SMASH - ~6:1, 20 us - 0.8 ms, 50 ms - 1.1 s
TAME - 4:1, 100 us - 100 ms, 0.1 ms - 3.2 s
GLUE - 2:1, 0.05 ms - 37.5 ms, 100 ms - 2.0 s
White LED POLISH - infinity:1, 0.05 us - 1 ms, 10.0 us - 250.0 ms, hard knee, peak detection
Blue LED POLISH - infinity:1, 0.05 us - 1 ms, 10.0 us - 250.0 ms, softknee, triple-detector
We have a couple features that we haven't previously discussed:
-By holding the MODE toggle switch to the right for ~3 seconds takes over the gain reduction meter and allows you to change the ratio in every mode by adjusting the toggle switch
-By holding the MODE toggle switch to the left for ~3 seconds takes over the gain reduction meter and allows you to change some stress, knee, and sidechain settings depending on the mode for every mode by adjusting the toggle switch.
-Analogue Lookahead can be applied to 4 modes (I guess 5 with BLUE and WHITE polish) - POLISH, TAME, GLUE, SMASH. Basically, the analogue lookahead makes such a big difference to achieve more transparent and even compression across the frequency range (especially the low-end) that we now allow you to set it for more modes besides POLISH. But enabling it on SMASH, GLUE, and TAME will be different than the inspired-by compression styles for which they are named. So it is not on by default - but we think for many things turning it on will be an improvement so it's now an option.
Yes the stress circuit is multi-band. And yes frequency and phase linear crossovers were critical to achieve, especially for the POLISH modes. We achieved it with one of Ed's typically very clever and sophisticated new circuits. Of which we of course keep close to the chest.
Finally, probably the thing you all care about the most - timings. So we are filming the videos (including audio examples) the week after next at a lovely commercial studio in the UK. The design is now final, parts ordered and arriving to our factory, PCBs ordered and arriving to our factory soon, metalwork ordered a while ago and en route to our factory, etc. We have a production schedule which if all things go well get us first units end of May. Lots needs to go well for this happen but so far we are on track.
I can't wait for you all to hear it. I am of course heavily biased but it's the best compressor I've ever used.
Thanks all!
Sean from Cranborne