The original FAIRCHILD compressor is BACK!

[@KohleAudioKult]

How many Fairchilds are you gonna buy?

[@jonnylikertrommer]

42

[@jackkosto]

Negative two 🤣

[@MichaelLenz1]

I had plans to build one if I only had the more detailed information of transformers used in it

[@KnowThings]

As you already have one, why not compare it to UAD Plugin?

[@CrushingAxes]

Are we talking about plugins?

[@mattgrou]

What an an amazing unit! Thanks for letting us hear this!

[@allboutthemojo]

Guaranteed to compress all the $$$ out of your wallet! 😂

[@TamaDrumBoy]

Thanks for smashing my drums! Sounds awesome. I don't think I'll buy the hardware just yet, but It was fun to hear the result! And yes, I have replaced the tom heads in case you wonder 😘

[@KohleAudioKult]

Good to hear that. I’ll send you the files asap!

[@gerardourby]

Master Kohle... Please give us a Studio Tour of Kohlekeller Studio 🙏🙏 My grandma would love it !!!

[@KohleAudioKult]

That’s really something I should do!

[@atticusnow131]

TELEFUNKEN nailed it with this new Fairchild unit. Excellent demo too @KOHL AUDIO KULT. Well done!

[@dougappel5924]

I look forward to trying this out with a virtual version (probably UAD's)!

[@KohleAudioKult]

Try it on vocals too. This is the other discipline where it shines for me

[@dreamTmiRRor]

I have the UAD plugin version. It sounds awesome. I'm gonna try this approach on drums coz I'm currently using it on my mix bus for color and a bit of compression.

[@UnvisibleINK]

Fairchild on master bus can sound great but not the best way to use it, compared to other options we have. It is a matter of taste, so feel free to ignore me entirely, but I would suggest trying a plugin based on the ssl master bus compressor running into some kind of tape emulation if you haven't already. Only cause the time constants on the Fairchild aren't as flexible or useful on a full mix as the attack and release settings on the ssl. Fairchild easily one of the best compressors on drum bus or individual tracks. So slap it on everything, maybe just not the entire mix. Or at least take a punt on an ssl bus comp if you can afford it and run your own comparison. Worst case you wind up with two good compressors to play with.

[@dreamTmiRRor]

@@UnvisibleINK I'm using Fairchild 670, it's a bit more complex, it can be used on MIX bus. The one in the video is Fairchild 660

[@UnvisibleINK]

@@dreamTmiRRor lol no, the one in the video is the 670. You can pause the vid at multiple points to read the printed text if you like, but you should know it's the 670 just based off it being stereo. The 660 is mono, 670 is stereo, that's the only real difference I'm aware of. I mentioned a few times that the Fairchild can sound great on the bus, so I know what it's capable of under the right conditions with tail wind and favourable musical dynamics, but the time constant options really fall short compared to the ssl attack and release options. But like I said, up to you. You know your music and whether the child works better than the ssl on the bus... assuming you've done your own comparisons that is.

[@BeatsAndMeats]

This is entirely too awesome!!!

[@DiamondLifer]

We used a pair of Fairchild’s located at Ross Robinsons remote studio in Atwater, CA to record some singles. We used them on drums and bass. Came out unreal. I’ve been meaning to grab a UAD plugin to use for demoing. This was a good reminder.

[@KohleAudioKult]

Go for it!

[@Дмитрий_Асанов-Бессонов]

Thank you for this video. It's great help for me

[@philippgrunert8776]

Think I'll have to revisit my plugin versions. What a nice smack on the snare. For some reason I never was able to make it sorta work in my mixes and end up using vca type or fully digital compressors instead

[@jirosaves_theworld]

thanks for video now i understand how to use this sexy compressor................well plugin version the only i own.....

[@jason.martin]

For a low cost tube unit, maybe try out the WES audio RHEA :)

[@musicjustice9330]

Love your T-shirt🤩🔥🤘🏻

[@KohleAudioKult]

Love Benighted ❤️. Probably the band I worked with the most in my career.

[@aceedmond8053]

I have the UA I love pushing it, no doubt it likes to be pushed and always delivers.

[@KohleAudioKult]

Push FTW!

[@aceedmond8053]

@@KohleAudioKult It is a bit expensive and heavy to be pushing around! but if it had wheels! ?

[@borndrumming1972]

I use the Puigchild on all my drum busses...but I have never thought to push the crap out of it, and use it outside of the way it's commonly used. Prost!

[@KohleAudioKult]

You’ve missed the fun part! 🤘🤪

[@MoreMeRecording]

I have a Fairchild A-10 Warthog

[@KohleAudioKult]

Not exactly affordable either, right? 😜

[@UnvisibleINK]

Nothing is as reliable as trusty mode 1, but I've gotten good results out of 5 and 6 on bass guitar. You can get driven bass to sound really thick, even and unrelenting, if that's what the song needs. Those modes are always worth experimenting with even though you're probably gonna use mode 1 most of the time.

[@KohleAudioKult]

I agree. Bass and vocals usually sound good in the auto modes.

[@SilentScreamsStudios]

I have the waves fairchild compressor. Most people dont even have $5K in the bank. I would never spend that much on any equipment. I rather buy land in the caribbeans

[@timsarlos6403]

😂 1/10th of what you just said

[@gastonjaureguix]

Thanks for posting this, i always wanted to hear a whole experimentation on this compressor because sometimes is shown in clinics and here we could get a good idea of what it does, it sounds amazing

[@KohleAudioKult]

Thanks! It does one thing, but that usually sounds great.

[@asgardaomusic]

Nice video! Question: stereo link not possible?

[@KohleAudioKult]

No bypass, no stereo link, no output knob. 🤘

[@klavierunterricht-bergstra2187]

Sehr cool

[@dmytromats3690]

Let's take a moment and appreciate how good this snare drum sounds, even without compression.

[@KohleAudioKult]

Finally someone 😩

[@dmytromats3690]

@@KohleAudioKult you should be considered to sell samples from this snare ;)

[@KohleAudioKult]

It’s funny. It’s the same snare that we ended up using in the new Nolly course. Tama Tempesta. Guess I should get one too. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpvOhmp6dtibeLMsi=GL8io7p2hWlUnAs3

[@ir8123]

Trading 3k worth of plugins for this 🙄...top notch piece of gear.

[@dimocka79]

Fairchild is fantastic,- no doubt. But 40 000 $ ??? We are living in golden age era of great plugins. Can the same sound be reached with plugins? With good experience and knowledge - no doubt -YES! Both ways of mixing are great and everyone chooses their own way.

[@snowandcoal]

You can get nice 80s or 90s Toyota with 500 euros. Studio gear for the win.

[@KohleAudioKult]

Haha! Fair enough.

[@danymalsound]

Din svenska är ganska bra!

[@Mic_Locker_Talk]

Bling Bling Rock'n'Roll! Car? House? Girlfriend? PRIORITIES! :-)) Great video!

[@SecretMetalFromAbyss]

The title of this video already gave me the idea that it must be this. :D

[@KohleAudioKult]

I thought so!

[@Fwuzeem]

Is that Cubase 5?

[@KohleAudioKult]

Nope. I just don’t like the „grey in grey“ colors.

[@Fwuzeem]

@@KohleAudioKult so, Reaper with a cool theme?

[@kevinbatchelor9566]

The new Fairchild remake is too rich for my blood. I might buy an Unfairchild though.

[@aleksamrkela831]

The Stamchild is even more affordable. There are also great vari-mus for less that aren't clones of the Fairchild per se, but still deliver the goods, like the WesAudio Rhea and the Gainlab Dictator.

[@Abzshred]

why does it have a right channel and left channel? thanks

[@KohleAudioKult]

It's basically two independant mono compressors

[@TheStrykerProject]

It's really nice to actually hear a difference with that compressor. But then, maybe that's difference between 'smashing' and 'subtle'?! 😁 Anyway, sounds great...but if I had $40k to blow on gear, it wouldn't be one compressor. 😉

[@KreativeDevices]

🔥

[@wreckinjoint]

I use to carry one of these up hill...alone, in my day. 🤣 I'm actually being literal for once.

[@KohleAudioKult]

Really? Respect. So you did own a 670 in the past?

[@wreckinjoint]

@@KohleAudioKult I wish. It belonged to the artist I was working with at the time. Super clean unit. Constantly moving it from a home studio to wherever we were working, it was terrifying. Blew it up twice too!

[@KohleAudioKult]

@wreckinjoint What a nice story! 🤘

[@aleksamrkela831]

I'd much rather go buy a house! :P

[@KohleAudioKult]

You can still heat the house with the Fairchild plus get sexy compression whenever you need it 😎

[@AG-mz7vm]

How much would the price of the parts of this compressor be? Does anybody know?

[@KohleAudioKult]

Good question. From what I know the tubes are ridiculously expensive.

[@Out_of_Orbit999]

🤤

[@CrushingAxes]

Beautiful Benighted shirt! You can't compress a mix with a car, plus usually my mixes never sound good in the car.

[@KohleAudioKult]

🤪

[@andrewjacobs5579]

Woo wee. That's the cost of my neck surgery.

[@djentlover]

Compressors are more important than necks

[@andrewjacobs5579]

@@djentlover Part of my neck issue is compression. I much prefer the one he's demonstrating. lol

[@djentlover]

@@andrewjacobs5579 haha that's really funny

[@KohleAudioKult]

😂

[@MrXikwriNeyrra]

I just watched an interview with Bob Olhsson and he said Fairchilds were useless and immediately got thrown to the corner in the studios... Now people want to pay tons of cash for those things or the expensive plugins... Funny...

[@ruthlesscutthroat4030]

it made the snare less anoying, that alone is worth 40k

[@R-sn1ty]

cool but I'll stick with fabfilter

[@KohleAudioKult]

😂

[@DavidMadeira29]

Yeah, really, who with a valid driving license and paying taxes would need a carstereo?! Namastè.

[@KohleAudioKult]

That’s the spirit!

[@MichaelLenz1]

Is this original one, or diy replica? None of its components worth that money

[@sonyphotoguy6601]

Telefunken builds it. The tubes alone are around 3k. And when you see the point to point wiring... it takes ages to do them in a high quality. But of course, if you don't calculate the time needed and you build it by yourself it is much cheaper. It's the same with every hardware unit.

[@MichaelLenz1]

@@sonyphotoguy6601 I don’t believe in p2p wiring magic. I designed previously devices, and pretty familiar with electronic engineering. 3k for 18 tubes is too much even for today’s prices. The most expensive parts in this unit are transformers. Such cost is probably due to lack of popularity and the company who builds this units has to sell for such price, to pay salaries to employees who builds it.

[@KohleAudioKult]

@MichaelLenz1 it’s all about the “fetish” here. Don’t try to “rationalize” it too much, haha!

[@DnBLand81]

or even better with that money i will buy has much distressor i can

[@georgyj111111]

Nobody needs that to make great sounding music.

[@sonyphotoguy6601]

Great records were made with 57s and a Tascam tape recorder. You don't need anything else.

[@KohleAudioKult]

Of course not! But it’s fun

[@MariJu1ce]

​@@sonyphotoguy6601 Great records were made with C12s and fairchilds too. you dont need super expensive gear no, but a 57 wont be the right vibe for everything, I think thats taking it a bit too far. Ofc you can make great music with anything, but interesting and good engineering can add a layer of depth and more emotion to the music that adds so much extra emotional investement. Why not get the best out of the singer for example by choosing the right microphone, even tough no microphone makes you sing better. Engineering is an artform too. You dont need anything technically, but thats the wrong mentality. Maybe some people just dont care for beautiful sounding records. but alot of us do. If the record doesnt sound interesting even tough its great music its hard for me to get engaged with it on a longterm basis. Ive had experiences where the wrong vocal mic really damaged the feeling of the song, and when you find that right piece of gear that works for the song, (could be a 57) something just fits into place, and the mixing process becomes much more efortless. Always get it right at the source, so why then would you limit yourself to using only a 57.

[@mrdenson3101]

There are hobbyists and professionals. If you are a hobbyist high end gear makes no sense. For a professional studio however these things do make sense. That’s why their sound is always better

[@sonyphotoguy6601]

@@MariJu1ce Sorry: Sarcasm does not always work on the internet. I am a high end-gearsnob. My point was: Nobody NEEDS more. If you work with this approach stay with your 57 and your tape recorder. :-)

[@Magnetarium-band]

To be honest I don't hear anything special in this compressor.

[@PrantoKoX]

Sounds great, obviously, BUT - there is NO audio compressor on Earth worth 40.000. Just as you said, you can buy a pretty good car for thar kind of money (let's just try and visualize the amount of parts and tech and "furniture" in a car...), and hell, in some parts of the world you can buy a HOUSE for that kind of money or pay for life-saving surgery or rare & complicated procedures and pharmaceutical therapies! 🤷🏼‍♂️ The prestige and collectible factor and fetish factor and sonic qualities can also never add up to that price - it's just another entitled perversion of Western ecoomics, of the logic of privilege of the few, as pushed mostly by audio dealers. And audio, honestly, has little to do with today's "value" of a Fairchild. BTW the engineers of the Fairchild era & time would have killed for a more stable, less tube replacement & care intensive, more flexibly capable solid state compressor of today, like e.g. a Distressor or an Elysia. Food for thought, IMHO.

[@KohleAudioKult]

Fetish is the right word I guess. It’s no rational decision to buy something like this (unless you wanna replace your existing Fairchild and still make some money) 😇

[@PrantoKoX]

@@KohleAudioKult Agree 300%! 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@MaxCarola]

Come on... Using that beast just to saturate drums? I understand that U want to spend that money for vynil mastering but not really to distort anything.