#SSL DUENDE COMPRESSOR MANUAL#

The valve and saturation components really can boost your level of for instance kick drums or bass and adding some pleasing harmonic overtones to it.

SSL has really delivered some stunning plugins that are easy to work with and sound very very good. This is a plugin that you need to check yourself on a signal, and sometimes you will be baffled at how much clearer the signal can get after using X-Phase on it.

#SSL DUENDE COMPRESSOR MANUAL#

In the manual is a very good explanation of the phase phenomenon. The filter knob switches between first and second order. In the allpass filter section the frequency filter and q-factor can be adjusted. In the middle of the GUI is the Allpass filter separately the left and right delay of the signal can be adjusted in Sec, Millisec,Sample, Meters and Feet. This is pretty scientific stuff through using allpass filters huge phase problems like comb filtering can be battled. Last but not least thereвЂ™s X-phase which is kind of different beast this plugin is made for fixing phase problems, but also fixing phase problems within different frequencies. A headroom knob is provided to add 6db of headroom above the saturation point.Дry/wet for parallel processing, a drive knob to adjust the amount of overtones that you add to your signal,harmonics for adding or decreasing 2nd or 3rd order harmonics, and lastly the depth and shape knobs that control the level of the harmonics that are put back into your signal.Дўnd order harmonics are often associated with 50s valve style overdrive, so kind of a warm and gentle sound, 3rd order harmonics are like 70s transistor style, so kind of a more gritty and grimey sound. The middle of the gui is where the magic happens, saturation and then some рџ™‚ a VU meter lets you see the level of the saturation. All the basic stuff is there again like the in/out a/b presets etc. This a saturation plugin that can add 2nd or 3rd order harmonics to your signal. Some presets are provided to get you started but with compression itвЂ™s always dependent on the signal you feed it. The compression itself is very nice and snappy and the knee-setings are from soft to hard knee. Autogain is also provided or you can set it manually as well as A/B Comparison to quickly check 2 different settings on the signal. A mix knob is also on board to give you the opportunity to use parallel compression aka new york compression. The valve compression can be on or off so this plugin can be also used for regular compression. The compressor controls can be set via the draggable nodes in the interactive compression display, or via the dedicated knobs. Sidechaining capability is also built in and also you can low cut or high cut the sidechain signal, moothing out the compression by cutting out the low end of the sidechain signal for instance. A very smooth working bypass in/out button is also provided to check exactly what the plugin is doing to your signal. Input and out put signals are seperately controllable, just cick and drag to set the meteringlevels to your desire. The GUI is very well layed out and easy to get the hang of. X-Valvecomp is a tube compressor emulation that adds harmonics to the original compressed signal. Solid State Logic (SSL) recently came out with 3 new plugins in their Duende Series: the X-Valvecomp, X-saturator & X-Phase.Time for a test drive!

Ssl duende compressor