the EMI RS124 is a classic compressor that's been used on thousands of songs
including the Beatles now soundevice digital have captured the
characteristics of this classic vari mu style compressor and they've put it into
a plugin aiming to bring pleasantly warm sounds with a few easy-to-use controls
to your music productions now there is a slightly limited free version of this
plug-in which I'll talk about in a bit and there's the full version which can
go on sale for around 60 dollars from time to time now let's give it a listen
and then I'll talk a little bit more about the features and the free version
by the way I'm Zane from audio tech tv.com and I've included a link in the
description to the listing of the Royal compressor on plugin boutique as that's
where you might find it for sale from time to time now let's look at some of
the features of the Royal compressor you have a trim control hiding right here
and this is like a pad control if you turn it all the way to the right you get
the full signal coming through turn it to the left and you start reducing the
amount of the signal it starts at zero when it's all the way to the right and
it goes down to minus 100 decibels when it's all the way to the left next is the
input control this is a gain knob and 0 is 0 DB added and then it can go all the
way up to plus 24 decibels allowing you to really hit the compressor section
hard or as soft as you want this plug-in is actually modeled after three separate
units and each unit has its own subtle differences you can switch between each
one with this knob here and you can see which one is best on your tracks the
next control is a recovery knob and this is a step knob that allows you to easily
lock in your setting 6 being the slowest and one being the fastest and you'll
also notice red dots between each step these represent the hold positions
they're basically the same as each step except it will keep the source signal
compressed to the most recently processed peak level making the recovery
time a lot longer the saturation control allows you to add as much vintage
saturation that you want the auto gain when turned on automatically controls
the output volume level the output attenuator manually controls the output
volume the mix knob controls how much of the effected sound that you want so you
can blend it with the unaffected audio if you
not two there's also a phase linear toggle button up here enabling this
button can introduce some latency but it should leave the phase of the source
untouched if you prefer to see how much decibels you're adding or decreasing on
things like the trim input saturation and output you can double click on each
of these controls and enter in a numeric value here now let's listen to the Royal
compressor again on a few more tracks and then we'll talk about the free
version
I'm a fan of what the Royal compressor brings to my tracks it's easy to use it
adds some desirable color and it can be used in pretty much any situation now
the free version is called royal compressor second hand and to get it all
you have to do is download the demo of royal compressor you let it run out
after 15 days and it automatically turns into royal compressor second hand this
version has some knobs that are missing so you don't get the three models you
only get one so that knob is missing the recovery knob is also missing so you
can't control the recovery and the auto gain control also doesn't work but what
you're left with is a very easy-to-use compressor with classic saturation not
too bad for free and if you want to check out even more free compressor
plugins click up here or click down here to see what YouTube thinks you should
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