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They should make a 160 gtr pedal compressor. Sell like hot cakes

Great vid. I wonder if any of those 40's and 50's units still exist and what they would be worth now.

My concern is the overuse of compression & limiting in the recording production sector. The more dynamics you leave in your final master, the more your precious productions will survive the meat grinder that is the modern radio air chain, Orban etc.

Honorable mention goes to the PWM style compressors, in particular the Cranesong STC8

Gotta mention these: Dept of commerce compressor, Presto 41a,Federal 86u,Fairchild 666, AWA, Collins.

Cool you got Morgan Freeman to do the voiceover! 😉

very well done, thank you

Love this video. So interesting!!

Best Eventide ever. I don't like the H9000.

It's great to hear and learn about the development of reverb units but the narrators script rehashes the same old 'unparrallelled'/';unprecedented' nonsense ad nauseam. Some more tech details as to HOW and WHY these developments took place would be more satisfying imho.

Cant believe you can still get these under £500 ! for now ! no doubt the rev 7 has a sound all of its own, and to all those that are saying "oh its no lex is it ?" well. no its not you fe@kin idiots, its a yamaha rev 7 ! people buy this for what it does, just like me saying to people using other reverbs "well its not a Rev7 is it ?" because a lex just cant do what this does, why would it want to ? its a different thing, studios that still have these keep them for very good reason, thats why so few pop up, They are great units well worth getting to know properly, and i know it will reward you for your trouble, one plugged into another its just other worldly, i will have to do a vid of this.

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Are those audio examples from the real thing or plugin?

Amazing, thank you for this! You can really hear the filter working on the ursa, new obsession unlocked!

What happened to lexicon….they used to be great for vocals….this is rubbish

Cool Could you do a video on the dbx 150X Type I Noise Reduction. I have one and not sure what/how it works.

Thank you. Interesting to learn a bit of recording history.

It's ironic that Blackmer is most famous for the opposite of what he was originally trying to accomplish with his first few products.

Can someone tell me? Can this effects machine be used in a DJ setting?

Dreamy

Sound very convincing but then I wonder what happens to the audio track that is sent out from the analogue console to the 990 processor, processed at 16 bit 44.1 kHz and brought back into the console. Surely due to the low sampling rate, there’s expected that some useful audio from the analogue signal would get chopped off. No?

Thanks for the History lesson!

Very useful, thank you. Here we have the times: 0:36 Intro 1:02 AMS RMX 16 (Non-Linear) 1:34 AMS RMX 16 (Ambience) 2:05 AMS RMX 16 (Room) 2:36 SONY DRE-2000 (Reverb A) 3:08 SONY DRE-2000 (Reverb B) 3:39 SONY DRE-2000 (Reverb C) 4:10 Klark Teknik DN 780 (Non-Linear) 4:42 Klark Teknik DN 780 (Plate) 5:13 Klark Teknik DN 780 (Room) 5:45 Yamaha REV 7 (Echo Room) 6:16 Yamaha REV 7 (Gated Reverb) 6:47 Yamaha REV 7 (Snare) 7:19 SONY MU-R210 (Gated Reverb) 7:50 SONY MU-R210 (Plate) 8:22 SONY MU-R210 (Snare) 8:53 Yamaha SPX 90 (Gated Reverb) 9:25 Yamaha SPX 90 (Plate) 9:56 Yamaha SPX 90 (Rev 4 Plate)

Sound of the 80s right here!

A dream machine.

Those vocals were damn great max 80s power !!

What a beautiful and high level production, a pleasure to watch ❤️

I have one. I paid 3.5 k 3 years ago. There is no end of what you can do with this. I also have an Eventide. 2 different beast. No regret whatsoever. I was told it would be too much for me. I agree but I'm having a hell of a good time. :)

Informative

My favorite machine..!

i came here from your website, its a cool site man, really nice. i love old gear too and hope you can make a repositary for all info on it

I've got a few now (a 160VU, a 165, pair of 160A's and an Audio-Scape 260 which is an excellent clone version of two 160VU's) but _man,_ I wish I had known better back when I was in high school and saved all the money I made from my restaurant job. Back then (mid-to-late 1990's) 160VU's _pairs_ went for +/- $600, 162's and 165's would go $200/$250 and the latter 160X/XT/A's could go for anywhere from $50 to $150. Not to mention how cheap 1176's, 1178's, LA-3A's, and Pultec EQ's were. _Ughh!_ I get physically sick just thinking about it. The State college in my town had a recording arts program and back then they were fully committed to going digital and were selling stuff like that. They also ran and housed a radio station and were liquidating gear at that time. Pultecs, 1176's and 78's, CBS and Altec compressors, Urei "Little Dipper" EQ's, EV RE20's and original Shure SM7's etc. etc. I had _multiple_ opportunities to buy that stuff but naively, I thought I'd always have an opportunity to buy others down the line and although I knew it was useful stuff, I didn't realize just _how_ useful. _Ha!_ What a fool I was. Now I kust after this stuff. To this day my friend's father still has two "silver face" (Rev H?) 1176's, a pair of Pultec program EQ's, a pair of LA-3A's and several CBS Volumax broadcast compressors that he modded into _awesome_ units that sound incredible on lots of stuff but especially vocals and bass and a stash of RE20's and SM7's. All of which he bought from that college here in town for a price that today wouldn't get you _one_ LA-3A or pair of 160VU's.

I like this version of Don’t Lose My Number.

A great resource - your website!

Nice and like the video aesthetic

Nice and like the video and website aesthetic.

I've never used hardware processors. Saw your channel on my feed and this video didn't disappoint. Since I use emulations of some of these units, it's only right I learn about them. Looking forward to watching the Distressor video too🎉

I bought one of these the year it came out for guitar. It listed at $2000. It was the best multi-effects processor on the market at the time. Absolutely loved the unit! To my great disappointment though, it was Korg's last attempt at making rack mounted multi-fx processors. After that they went exclusively to more simplistic floor mulit-fx crap that I never liked and never bought. Zoom and Yamaha went in the same stupid direction after a few years. Roland resisted this direction for a long time to their credit coming out with the GP-16 and then GP-100 before finally following suit. When the Korg A1 came out as great as it was, it had competition because that same year Zoom came out with the Zoom 9010 which was a single rack space (but extremely deep) very high quality quad configured multi-FX processor which also listed for $2000 but as good as that was it still wasn't quite as unique, useful, and inspirational as the Korg A1 for a progressive guitarist in my opinion, though I will say the Zoom had equal sound quality. I'm sure much of that was because Zoom made the chips for Korg back then. The only thing I didn't like about the Korg A1 was if you were going to use it for on-the-fly playing, you had to use it with it's own foot controller because trying to use a MIDI foot controller was useless since the MIDI channel changes were very slow. That was a big flow for this unit. Also the expanded FX card didn't come out until like two years after the unit was out, only the memory card was available.

Compare it with Alesis Quadraverb 1 please, Thanks

I see lots of 118 love all over the net, but 119 is the GOAT

Good stuff...

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Just got another cassette portastudio in 2024 they are easier to use than the digital ones

What about the awesome 166 stereo with gate from the 80s and 90s?

My favs are the dbx118 and the dbx566. That 118 is especially hella fun!

Great Demo!!!

You omitted the 163X Over Easy Compressor. Half rack mono unit with a mounting bracket system, so you could build your own stereo version. Unbalanced I/O. Stereo link via TRS. It had an extra Hi Z input on the front and just a level pot and a horizontal fader marked MORE at the right end. Clearly targeted for guitar- and bass players. I didn’t get the soft knee concept at the time, I just thought the unit sounded cool. My limited budget prevented me from buying a proper stereo unit. This unit allowed me to buy one half at a time😎

Awesome history lesson, Peace, Sal 🎸

I miss TC6000 VSS3 and VSS4 in this list. Great video btw

I got to have at least, 8 tracks!! I love my tascam 688!!