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Pawn Shop Comp User Manual
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A CAVEAT
Because the Pawn Shop Comp is a digital emulation, you can tweak it in ways
that you would with a physical piece of audio equipment. In the real world
things blow up and burn out. HOWEVER, all digital equipment is capable of
tremendous amounts of gain, the Pawn Shop Comp included. Digital clipping
is a real possibility, and a digitally clipped signal going through speakers at a
high volume is NOT GOOD AT ALL. You don’t want to burn out the voice coils
of your speakers, so by all means experiment but be sure to watch the levels
feeding out of your gear and into your monitor ampli
fi cation: you don’t want
to digitally clip signals.
IDEAS FOR APPLICATIONS
The Pawn Shop Comp wasn’t designed to do any one speci fi c type of task. It’s
not a vocal compressor or a bus compressor. It works well everywhere. In
fact, for many users it is the
fi rst processing plugin reached for when working
on a track. Because it is so versatile, and because it is so hard to get a bad or
unusable sound out of it, it is di
ffi cult to give speci fi c setting for a particular
application. So, here are some ideas and guidance to get you started.
On Bass
The Pawn Shop Comp combines the warmth and smoothness of a tube
compressor and the punch of a FET limiter, so it is a natural
fi t for bass. Start
with the ATTACK to about 2 o’clock and the RELEASE to about 11 o’clock, and
RATIO at 4:1. Turn down THRESHOLD to get the meter jumping. Too short a
RELEASE can result in some strange things in the bottom end as the
compressor starts “riding” the peaks and valleys of the waveform rather
than responding to the bass sound in its entirety (all compressors with a fast
release do this). Use the ATTACK to get control of the transient, set it slower
to make the bass punchier.
On the Other Side, use BIAS to get a fuzz bass e ff ect, FOCUS can make things
more articulate, and WEIGHT can strengthen the bottom end. You might also
think about doing a small cut with WEIGHT, it tends to clean up the bottom a
bit.
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