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Mushy
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Do NOT mess with the balance. This is for calibrating when you swap out the tubes. It will not affect input levels. My question is did you mess with the DC Threshold? That’s not something the other comps have and would very much affect the behavior and level of squish. Do you have a link to the manual? I’m curious if they say which position matches the Abbey Road calibration.
According to Heritage the input and output knobs are just attenuators. They do not boost.
Thanks for doing the shootout, btw. I almost pulled the trigger on one.
Yes, I'm glad you asked that! So, turning the DC Threshold up to 6 should make it more of a limiter. The problem is, the higher you go on the DC threshold, the less gain reduction you'll see, so you need more input gain at that point and there just isn't any on board. I did experiment with it there and I believe I used it on DC Threshold 2 on bass or acoustic but for most examples, had to keep it on 1 to get a discernible amount of gain reduction going on.