I really (like - REALLY) don't get people's obsession with Fairchild. the only conceivable reason reason for that is the physical nature of the machine (mammoth like. so it must produce equivalent sound, right ?). I haven't heard one in real life (as are 97% of people) but upon hearing it on youtube (highest quality) and upon heaaring downloadable processed samples.... it made me go "Meh". that meh was reaffirmed by Dave himself when he said "have you heard one in real life ? it IS doing something, it is just so... polite. if you can't hear the distortion what you got there is a basic stock compressor".I don't think people realize how much time Dave spent on the models that are included already. As far as I know, he literally built hardware clones of the devices he modeled, then measuring every single component and created his own mathematical models of each. Very similar workflow to what Andrew of Cytomic does (though I suspect Andrew is a bit more OCD about it all.. if that's even possible).I am too, i want the saturator more than TC2 update but from what i read from GS, pretty sure they will be both released at the same time. There are still some big hitters missing in TC2 (LA3A, Fairchild, 33609...)
So getting a DMG Audio model of a Fairchild means Dave first needs to build one. I know he was contemplating it at one point but the cost is really high even just for the components of a modernized version and if it needs to be anywhere near "authentic" in terms of vintage sound output, then the costs skyrocket due to the shortage of those old tubes and the transformers.
The LA3A and 33609 should be much more feasible and hopefully we'll get those at some point. I'm also eagerly still awaiting the PYE compressor he was teasing many years ago.
I'd rather process with P2F NAM offerings (660/670) and then with some basic stock compressor.
TrackComp has well enough models to use (inc. the Zener-Winner)
Statistics: Posted by eytanmich123 — Wed Feb 28, 2024 6:36 am