Alternative to Waves MV2?

[simon.a.billington]

Originally Posted by TVPostSound

The original post is 3 years old!!

Haha!!

And here I was getting ready to say something about mixing series compression with parallel compression, but hey... Haha!!

[amagras]

Originally Posted by simon.a.billington

Haha!!



And here I was getting ready to say something about mixing series compression with parallel compression, but hey... Haha!!

I'm all ears

[simon.a.billington]

Originally Posted by amagras

I'm all ears

Seriously?? I'll explain it if you want. Conceptually its pretty simple though.

[amagras]

Originally Posted by simon.a.billington

Seriously?? I'll explain it if you want. Conceptually its pretty simple though.

No, I'm all ears to everything you have to say, I always read your posts

[Andy Gone]

The 'low level' compression in MV2 is pretty simple I believe, if you look to the picture in the manual, no? And then you have 'high level' compression on top of it, which is 'regular' RVox-like compression.

[bad jitter]

The low level upwards compression in MV2 is quite unique, or is it? I am looking for an unwupped preferably multi-channel alternative, but is there any? I don’t mind the high-level standard compression/limiting feature.

[albee1952]

Originally Posted by bad jitter

The low level upwards compression in MV2 is quite unique, or is it? I am looking for an unwupped preferably multi-channel alternative, but is there any? I don’t mind the high-level standard compression/limiting feature.

If you don't have a Waves account, sign up for one(its free) and you will receive email specials. MV2 is often on sale for $29-39. I'm not aware of anything that works quite the same. Re the WUP, I still have working Waves stuff from version 10(have not paid for WUP in a couple of years) and all the older stuff still works fine(so don't feel a need to pay for upgrades if you don't need to)

[Mikey MTC]

Originally Posted by bad jitter

The low level upwards compression in MV2 is quite unique, or is it? I am looking for an unwupped preferably multi-channel alternative, but is there any? I don’t mind the high-level standard compression/limiting feature.

A fabulous multiband alternative for this upward expansion is the McDSP ML4000. It used to be pretty expensive but I've seen it as low as $50 recently.

[Mikey MTC]

Originally Posted by Mikey MTC

A fabulous multiband alternative for this upward expansion is the McDSP ML4000. It used to be pretty expensive but I've seen it as low as $50 recently.

Looking back over this thread, it looks like I said the exact same thing 2.5 years ago! At least I'm consistent!

[bad jitter]

From MV2's manual:

Low Level
Sets the low level compression threshold. Compression is applied to signals below this threshold. (From bottom up)
Range: 0 to +48 dBFS

I don't get how the threshold can be above 0 dBfs? As I understand it, the low-level slider sets the maximum amount of low level upwards compression. And that user cannot set the actual threshold at all.

What do you think?