The real Fairchild, at higher compression levels, 'darkens' or softens the audio a fair bit, which sounds really, really nice. The APB C673-A, however, retains the original tone at higher compression levels more precisely, so you keep the same brightness of your original input, which may arguably work much better for many peoples workflows, especially for modern music styles. It's a case of different tools for different jobs; McDSP modelled the C673-A on the Fairchild but also made a few changes to the sound that they preferred, and clearly this was to have the C673-A not darken the sound at all, allowing you to have similar compression characteristics of the Fairchild but without essentially changing the EQ!
Good work, keep these vids coming
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Sounds amazing
Knocked it out the park again Dale. The APB stacks up so nicely against the Fairchild. It’s pretty scary actually.
The real Fairchild, at higher compression levels, 'darkens' or softens the audio a fair bit, which sounds really, really nice. The APB C673-A, however, retains the original tone at higher compression levels more precisely, so you keep the same brightness of your original input, which may arguably work much better for many peoples workflows, especially for modern music styles. It's a case of different tools for different jobs; McDSP modelled the C673-A on the Fairchild but also made a few changes to the sound that they preferred, and clearly this was to have the C673-A not darken the sound at all, allowing you to have similar compression characteristics of the Fairchild but without essentially changing the EQ!
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I wanted to buy a vari Mu compressor and an analog eq, but I'm reconsidering buying a Mcdsp APB.
Now is the time to buy an APB - they are 20% off for Black Friday!
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It is very closed to the original Fairchild, while it is not using the same analog technology.