ben ifin
Experienced
SOME SUCCESS - UPDATED AT POST #8 and POST #10 BELOW
Hey all
Was doing some studio work during the week and was using both my KPA and Axe ..... mainly Vox / Marshall sounds for all tracks.
Did 2 primany tracks with the Axe .... then 2 primary tracks with the KPA and blended / mixed as we wanted .... suffice to say it printed to tape great - no surprise there.
It was a short session so we just took a L+R out of each and away we went.
As he always does the engineer ran my outputs through his [very] old Teletronix LA2A - I didnt have any compressor blocks engaged in either my KPA or Axe.
Needless to say, the LA2A did its "magic" ...... made the guitar just a touch creamier / stickier and just sound "right" without [to me ears at least] messing with the tone of the sound and especially not "muddying" up the lower strings ...... I'm sure any who have recorded with one know exaclty the magic-mojo they impart ..... anyway .....
..... so .....I grabbed my phone and took a picture of the settings:-
-> Gain Knob set to a whisker under 40
-> Peak Reduction Knob set to a whisker under 50
-> Gain Redection Knob set to straight 12.00 / straight up [ not +10 or +4 ]
-> Comp / Limiter toggle set to " Comp " - must have been an older unit as this switch was on the back of the unit
Anyway .... home a few days later and am trying to copy / emulate these specific LA2A settings with one of the Axe Comps ...... but am having a bugger of a time ....
So .....
-> can anyone suggest which Axe 2 Comp to use, and what settings to set it to, in order to get this LA2A compression ?
Thanks,
Ben
Hey all
Was doing some studio work during the week and was using both my KPA and Axe ..... mainly Vox / Marshall sounds for all tracks.
Did 2 primany tracks with the Axe .... then 2 primary tracks with the KPA and blended / mixed as we wanted .... suffice to say it printed to tape great - no surprise there.
It was a short session so we just took a L+R out of each and away we went.
As he always does the engineer ran my outputs through his [very] old Teletronix LA2A - I didnt have any compressor blocks engaged in either my KPA or Axe.
Needless to say, the LA2A did its "magic" ...... made the guitar just a touch creamier / stickier and just sound "right" without [to me ears at least] messing with the tone of the sound and especially not "muddying" up the lower strings ...... I'm sure any who have recorded with one know exaclty the magic-mojo they impart ..... anyway .....
..... so .....I grabbed my phone and took a picture of the settings:-
-> Gain Knob set to a whisker under 40
-> Peak Reduction Knob set to a whisker under 50
-> Gain Redection Knob set to straight 12.00 / straight up [ not +10 or +4 ]
-> Comp / Limiter toggle set to " Comp " - must have been an older unit as this switch was on the back of the unit
Anyway .... home a few days later and am trying to copy / emulate these specific LA2A settings with one of the Axe Comps ...... but am having a bugger of a time ....
So .....
-> can anyone suggest which Axe 2 Comp to use, and what settings to set it to, in order to get this LA2A compression ?
Thanks,
Ben
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