Pawn Shop Comp 2.0 - User Manual
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OVERVIEW
The Pawn Shop Comp (we aren't going to write 2.0 anymore) has a wide range of controls
organized into the Front and "the Other Side."
The compressor controls are principally on the front panel of the PSC. If you click on the
Korne
ff
Audio nameplate, the GUI changes and you're presented with even more controls.
This additional functionality makes the Pawn Shop Comp closer to an entire channel strip.
On the other side you can access a tube preamp, with adjustable gain and bias, which lets
add warmth and grit by adding harmonic distortion, and a two band EQ section, which lets
you add gentle vintage-style peaking equalization curves to the lows and mids. The preamp
has three choices of tubes, which allow you to further control saturation characteristics,
and three switchable transformer types, which give you surprising control over the overall
response of the plugin.
There's also an Operating Level control, which emulates mismatched gear levels, and lets
you dial in even more punch and attitude. There are output and input controls to properly
gain stage the Pawn Shop Comp in your signal
fl
ow, as well as a WET/DRY control for built-
in parallel processing.
Finally, you can switch between four sets of di
ff
erent resistors, which a
ff
ect the high end
response, and two di
ff
erent types of FET's that yield di
ff
erent compression curves.
It is a bit overwhelming, but we like to say the PSC is a reverse mullet: the party is up front,
and the business is out back. So, if you want to make things easy on yourself, the front
panel compressor controls are all you need to quickly and intuitively dial in great sounds.
However, if you really want to
fi
ne tune the heck out of your signal and get the full
functionality of the plugin, go to the "other side" and go berzerk. You can tweak almost
everything back there.
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