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A while back I was actually having a hard time deciding whether to get an external convert or the Distressor.
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I'm 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 POSITIVE POSITIVE POSITIVE that you will hear dramatically better results with the Distressor than you will with any fancy converter. I'd put SERIOUS money on it.
The Distress is that thing I've been missing for the past 5 years or so. My life has been happier now that I've gotten it. Not because I have new toy, but because I've solved a problem that has plagued me for years. Converters are a waste of time in comparision.
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Although most people recommended the converter
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These are the same fucking scumbags who have no real clue what they are doing and just repeat the same damn lies over and over again on useless recording forums. There was a reason I started my own recording forum back in 2005 even though were were plenty of forums. There weren't any that I thought were any good for the beginner / intermediate guys. The effects of the Distressor are so obvious on every source I've tried it on that I can't fathom how a person would prefer a converter of a Distressor.
Read the first post again. The bass player was "Oh god" and snarled his nose when I turned the compressor off. Change a converter and see what a bass player does: Breath! Blink! That's it. They won't notice.
Also I tracked a vocal with it yesterday. AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!!!! The Distressor does all the stuff that the high end pres are supposed to do but really don't. I went somewhere and Daughtry was on the radio. I started laughing because I could hear the Distressor sound (or equivalent compressor) on his vocal. This sound was elusive to me before. I thought I would get it with my $2,500 Soundelux U99. I did not. However, I bet I could make a killer recording with an SM57 and a Distressor on vocals in a situation where maybe the U99 was preferred.
I've got a tune with a Distressor on the bass and vocals that will soon have it on the electric guitars (which I will also run through the Distressor) that I'll post sometime next week. There is no question about it.
I'll make my official stance right now: Anyone who tells you a high end converter (vs a Firestudio converter or equivalent) is more important than a Distressor for pop music (pop, country, metal, rock, etc) is a sick bastard who is intentionally misleading people or is completely deaf. Tell them I said that. These child-molesting, corporate lawyer, politician caliber scum need to be thrown in a furnace. If there is a such thing as God, Karma, or justice they will.
Then again, maybe compression is a subjective thing! ha ha
Brandon