In-Depth: OptTronik Compressor

Ben Hammond gives an in-depth demonstration of OptTronik.
Inspired by a legendary tube-driven, electro-optical levelling amplifier, OptTronik’s smooth, musical ‘2A-style compression makes it the perfect match for many sources, including vocals and bass guitar.
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[@videosavants]

Great series, more musical approache, nice !

[@TuDoorCinema]

Been watching these videos and i have to say, I'm impressed by what these deep processing fx can do. I'd be very interested in seeing an in depth video of signal flow within a dLive. Ive been learning on an s5000 and its a bit overwhelming for someone with no prior engineering experience.

[@integer22]

The emphasis control is just a sidechain circuit high pass filter is it not? On the dLive there is a more intuitive graphic next to it which indicates that's what it's doing. I don't think it has any bearing on the attack and release timing. As per the hardware version, I imagine this is program-dependent.

[@gabedestellano]

As a live mix engineer using the SQ5, I would've really liked to see examples of every plugin you've covered applied on live signals and a live mix. The main mix examples as well as the solo channel examples, for that matter, don't give us an accurate representation of what to expect in our stage mixes. I imagine Allen and Heath would be able to mic main speakers and closely reproduce examples of these effects in a live mix. I imagine my mixes could benefit from any or even all of these effects but as I and most of the engineers using these desks are mixing live audio, it would've been a smarter set of examples to give to us.

[@AllenandHeathUK]

Hello Gabriel, Very fair argument. At the moment, we do not have any content to use as a reference, I'm afraid. However, I will raise this up for the near future. Thank you, Rafael

[@gabedestellano]

@@AllenandHeathUK It would certainly be appreciated. Thank you for your reply.