TylerDeadPine wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 2:47 am That makes sense - I was glad to see you posting about gear qualms and not fire qualms

I am! I’ll be there the 24th

We have a bit of buffer in the fire zone. Also, we're out of the country and we have house-sitters there. It's a bit stressful, but ultimately there's not much I could do if I was at home, other than leave with a car full of guitars, bikes, and paperwork.

Barring complications of cancellations, I'll be at NAMM on the 24th for fun and the 25th to work the booth. I'll be doing my normal travel process, which involves taking the train down with my bike. I'm DM my number.

Any other PRF nerds going to NAMM?

Delta Pro 12As and Deltalite IIs. Early review - the deltalites are very lite, the pros are not.

NUX Matsamune compressor and boost.

https://www.nuxaudio.com/masamune.html

The boost works well, and being able to toggle the order is great, but the compressor adds a weird keening whine to the decay of notes - like a faint shimmer reverb but at a constant pitch. Presumed the pedal was faulty, got a replacement, which does the same thing, so back it goes and refund ahoy. It kind of has to be a bad batch, no? I can't imagine anyone wants a pedal to do that.

Hey ho. Me and compressors never seem to work.

Having great luck with buss compression with a way cheap Joemeek C2 someone recommended here, but only after removing vocal, bass and lead instruments.

Could never get it to hit right, especially since I like the thumpy bass way loud. I had this little compressor for months and was never able to make anything happen with it, but on a whim I put it on the group 3&4 insert of my board, messed with the settings and turned the compression way down and bam. The damn headphone mix sounds like a record now.

I still had a db or two of compression on one of the individual tracks, which probably helps because the C2 kind of jerks around with significant level changes. Bass, lead vocal, baritone, and pedal steel were left out of the submix, but the compressor was working on velvets guitar, percussion, chord organ, and a lot of acoustic guitar and fake mandolin (detuned and high capo’d guitar) comps I put together.

A cool effect I didn’t intend was some of the individual tracks feeding the effects sends before it was hit by the compressor, so you get neat and subtle dynamic effects with the slap and fake plate.

The Joemeek C2 was way cheap, maybe $150 shipped, but I also spent a long time trying to use it to no avail. Also I kind of hate the compression metering, which seems nonexistent. Maybe not as good as the FMR RNLA, but when this thing works it works. Will have to try the RNLA like this too some other time, but I like using that on individual tracks already, so not in a hurry.