distressor emulation

T-RackS Comprexxor - The Swiss Army knife of compressors (ikmultimedia.com)

$99

 

God damn my favorite company, releasing my favorite compressor.

 

Is it emulating a real unit?

Whats GB mode?
Gain Boost? Granola Bar? Guinean Burundanga? German Bundestag? Great Britain?

Reminds me of Empirical Labs Arousor somehow, but with more features like M/S..

 

According to the video is the 1176 "all buttons in"-mode

 

Don't they want to fix tape 80 noise bug reported by hundreds of users?

 

Groovy Bass
Gangsta Beatzz
(Positive) Grid Bias

 

Thx the website didn't say a word..

Another good one could be Pulsar Audio 1178,
I don't know about the sound, how real is it vs others, but it's got an excellent GUI so it could be very handy..

 

This!

 

Wow! This looks promising. And I said that without any sarcasm after using/DLing emulation plugins since the late 90's.

 

well its a

 

Supposedly this one https://www.empiricallabs.com/distressor/

It's the German abbreviation for 'ganz böse' and means 'really mean'.

I like this one, sounds good.

 

The audio demos in the video sound really great, but that doesn't say much really Sometimes IK really hits the nail on the head though so hopefully this is one of those times. Will have to wait until next week to try it out because I'm on vacation so I'll be looking forward to hear what you guys have to say about it!

 

Really unexpected.
It's time to use my JamPoints!

Update
It does not let me use my JamPoints 'cause add a PROMO code automatically.

 

Last edited: May 13, 2021

Great Britain

1:1 mode.

Introduced in EL8-X (Original: EL8)

 

They fixed it in last update

 

Looks like not fixed

Quote from gearslutzspace posts:

In the change log it states that:

Fixed an issue which could lead to left channel distortion with Tape Machine 80 at slower tape speeds.

Firstly, the distortion was never on the slower tape speed of 15ips, it was only ever on the higher tape speed of 30ips.

Secondly, the left channel distortion has not been fixed

Hear for your self:

The distortion sounds like a shaker on the left hand side and only disappears when the plugin is switched off or switches from 30ips to 15ips.

As you can see the tape type doesn't matter, and when you switch the true stereo it just places the noise in the centre.

I really hope this is just an error with the update and that the actual fix did happen and will be made available to us.

 

It must be a feature and not a bug then.

 

Just checked, no any distortion at any speed any models.
Maybe it Mac specific bug

 

You can hear it if use tape 80 with 30ips on subbass/clean 808 bass mixed with hihats... Add some mid frequency and it is there.
Seems like new version need to be checked properly.

 

Last edited: May 13, 2021

I hope it's gently on the CPU. Their tape emulation is hungry enough