black rooster audio have created an original modern compressor plugin
with a vintage vibe i'm zane welcome to simple green tech and today i'm looking
at the block rooster audio kh-comp1 i've included a link in the
description in case you want to check it out
they have a free trial there also if you use that link i think you get like 10
off any of your purchases over at black rooster audio
so let's check out the kh-comp1 now this compressor is really optimized
for side chain applications so that's how we're going to test it out
first and then i'll test it out like a regular insert compressor in a bit
so i have this simple bass part here and i'm just going to play that back without
the compressor on
all right so that's our bass line that we're going to be using
and here's the simple drum beat
now if we play both of these together this is how it sounds
without the compressor
so the base is kind of walking on top of the drums a bit
so now i'm going to enable the compressor
and i have the drum beat feeding in as the side chain
source and that's going to control the bass
so let's hear how it sounds on this bass
line so that right there is a lot better and
i haven't really played with things too much
so again here it is dry
now let's try it the other way around we'll use it on the drum beat
and you can really hear how it works there on that drum beat as
the bass just pushes it out of the way and when you're using this as a side
chain effect which is by clicking this button here
when this is on it's in side chain mode you get access to this invertible filter
here this gives you more control over your
side chain effect as you can choose the frequencies that
you really want to affect the side chain and you can listen to how just the side
chain sounds through it without the effect on by clicking this
listen button so we'll try that out now
and then you turn that off when you want to hear the effect in place
so
and you'll notice this detect knob right here and it has
four different settings and these are just four different settings that detect
the way the side chain is coming through some are quicker than others the hilbert
one is supposed to be the fastest and more accurate to the source but you
can mess around with these and see what works best on your tracks
all right so now let's try this out as a regular insert compressor without the
side chain on i have no inputs on here it's just a
regular insert compressor and i have it on the drum track first
all right now let's try it out on our baseline
just as an insert plugin
the block rooster audio kh-comp1 is a very versatile compressor plug-in
i like the fact that it's based on vintage gear but it's truly an original
modern compressor that's unique and not just a copy of an
older piece of hardware now i can see this becoming a secret weapon
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