With Opto compressors, everything is moving constantly, and in an ear-pleasing way!Īnd Brainworx takes the Opto-concept to the next level with this plugin. For example, an Opto compressor will react differently to a longer loud part of a song than to a short loud hit in a quiet part, as the photocells will build up heat over time, which slows down the attack and release times significantly.
Opto Compressors respond differently to different input signals, which is often referred to as being “program dependent”. Obviously compressing after a tube amp will sound a lot different due to the gain staging (more noticeable clipping on transients this way may sound less smooth overall.The bx_opto takes the best aspects and anomalies from legendary light-dependent Circuits to create a software compressor you wish you could buy in hardware! I think its more a question of, do you want to compress before or after your amp? Having stuck hardware comps between guitar and amp in the past, I definitely yielded better results with the pedals in this situation - considering noise floor, impedance, level matching etc. One thing I would add I have heard several 'real' 1176 users say they liked the stock 1176 pro tools plugin and when I A/B'd that with my Origin Effects versions, the pedals came out on top for me.įWIW I also participated in a hardware vs software compressor blind test for a research project a couple of years ago and was only right 50% of the time as were the other participants on average. But nobody should take any of that as a knock against the pedals.Ĭlick to expand.I agree with most of what Benny has said, having owned a Cali76-TX, CD and sliderig compact and used a WA76 (warm audio clone) in studio a lot. In fairness, I've since sold all three pedals - I just happen to prefer an optical compressor as a pedal in my rig, and took the opportunity to turn three in-demand pedals into a cool guitar. I felt like the big-box Slide Rig was a little more limited in the sense that it wasn't really like 2 full-featured 1176's in one box, but made up for it by making it super easy to get that Lowell George kind of attack and response that I dig. I thought the differences between the Standard and actual 1176 were more detectable at really low frequencies (low notes on the 5th string of a bass), but nothing that bothered me with an electric guitar or acoustic instruments. I suspect that more clear differences would have come into play at more aggressive settings. the buttons, for example), both versions were very, very close at the mild compression settings I tend to use with my UA 1176. Putting aside the obvious functional differences (variable ratio knob vs.
I had a large box Cali76-TX and large box Cali76 standard (and a big box Slide Rig).
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