IMHO Dcomp is transparent and delicate more than high-end digital comp. Dcomp does not adversely affect the sound. You can control only the dynamics.
I did not go to convince "sounds" and "release" be a high-end digital compressor. But, I am satisfied with the Dcomp clean and precise.

RND MBP is Powerful! This unit I have also very loving.
I did a comparison of MBP and Dcomp carefully. As a result, I judged that Dcomp was the optimal in many cases. So, I sold the MBP to purchase other equipment. I want a Mastering EQ....
I hope the release of Portico Master Bus EQ

How is everyone liking their Dangerous Compressor after all of these years? I rarely use compression in my work since most of it is heavily compressed before I get it, but I must say the dangerous compressor has caught my interest the past few weeks.

Does anyone have any new thoughts on the unit after owning it for a while?

iam having one for one year now, and its a great versatile unit. the sound of the gain is really great, the linked function doesn't affect at all the general sound and the compression is super transparent. cant go wrong with it.

I'm still kind of surprised that a company like Dangerous never got it together enough to make a professional version with stepped / switched controls. Considering how well suited the bax is for mastering concerning recall, I kind of expected more from Dangerous.

When this was released I remember Dangerous displaying it at AES and I asked them at the booth if they were gonna release a stepped version and the rep at the booth said that they were. I guess they were never able to figure it out.

To put new words on an old thread...

Dangerous of course did not add stepped controls. You don't really need them. The stereo linking is very good and done in great independent way.

Seriously, people are so concerned about stepped controls. It feels nice with a good click. And yes it turns a 10 second job into a 3 second job. Woo. But you don't really need that.

And if you're concerned about matching channels, guys if you're running tube stuff all that really expect the clicky dials to be that accurate? Go measure the stuff. Unless you're running mid side, your signal is not perfectly equal and would be almost no different with rotary, except one has much finer control.

An to top it off, it does not matter, like at all to have those differences in a final mix. No one is going to know but you, and you already don't know because you think your stepped controlled boxes are that accurate and most of them aren't. The SSL Fusion definitely isn't, and people LOVE that. I love it. But it's not going to get you a perfect stereo match, especially with the EQ and drive. Which is more than ok. It's part of why analog sounds good. The left and right channels are never matched.

Seriously, if you think the difference between 3.1ms and 3.4ms on your attack is the defining piece of your mix.. like seriously be real. I hope someone has a stepped mastering compressor who would be willing to share results like this. I really bet that it is not as "matched" as you think with stepped controls.

These are measurements of a Dangerous Compressor, eye matching the settings with manual attack and release. I added the SSL Fusion HF comp as well. (Symphony and AD+ doing the conversion.) Which has like 1.3ish db compression difference and not even at max gain reduction. So if you think these stepped controls save you time by getting you back to your accurate controls of old projects faster... then just... no dude. The stepped frequency controls on the fusion are definitely less accurate than a rotary. There's an argument that rotary controls would actually be more accurate. Let's say you to set 30 rotary knobs instead of stepped. Great, you're gonna completely ignore some really great hardware to save 2 minutes?

I seriously did this as honest as possible, turned all the knobs randomly and then spending about 10 seconds total to line things up from a picture. As you can see, at the end of measuring, I was at a .08dB maximum channel difference at max compression. And the attack pictures are imperceptibly different.

Absolutely no need for stepped controls. Take a picture. Save it. Organize it. And forget that stepped controls are so important.

Spoken just like someone who's never touched high end hardware with switches.

Whatever bro, you do you.

Uh ohh.. Seems like someone let an audiophile sit at the mixing console for too long. Next you'll be subordinating my plebian use of copper cable. Are you honestly telling me you lack so much confidence in your ability to turn a knob that you dont think you could eyeball it and still be within a 0.5dB stepped tolerance? Or can you just not see the dashed lines on gear anymore without squinting reall hard?

It would take you 7 minutes tops to screenshot your switched gear. I'd love to see how awesomely matched the channels are on working settings. Cause that's what I work on. Data. Hell maybe I'm wrong and you even get an extra vacation day from the 3 minutes you save for every recall you do.

Anyways, I just gave you data on two high end pieces that do happened to have switches. Unless a $3000 compressor and a $2600 master bus strip isn't high end to you. In which case... damn. Like grow up. It's like, Manly doesn't even give a frequency variance spec for the vari-mu (they just says it has a "flat" spectrum lol) and you honestly think the $1000 extra dollars you spend on grayhill switches just makes the device?

Jeez the crazy self image issues you have to have to have to make a passive aggressive statement like that on someone who just posted data using $13,000 worth of gear (apogee symphony and AD+ doing the conversion if I didn't say), is just like.. goddamn dude. I get it. You're "better" than me, lmao.

I’m better than both of you. Better at eating marshmallows. Which is terrifying cause at 37 they are now my favorite food.

I read some words on the dangerous being not great for the stereo field. Any thoughts on that?

Also does anyone here crank it up to 20:1 rock an super fast attack and just shave the absolute peaks?

I get we are in limiter mode there. But I find when talking about 2 bus comps people tend to use slow attack low ratio (as I do with my MBP) buttttttt doesn’t anyone ever switch gears totally and lay off the threshold and say not today Satan. Today I’m just supplying a ceiling. ?

Spoken just like someone who's never touched high end hardware with switches.

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Gustav

In a stereo design, the variable resistance isn't the only element responsible for the accuracy between the 2 channels.
With custom 5% tolerance potentiometers, 0.1% resistors and 2% capacitors all selected and hand matched in each design,
I obtain +/-0.1db of difference between left and right channels at all settings with 1951 Mastering Equalizer, sometime less
Now the "feeling" of a switched gear is important in a Mastering context imo. (and that's why I choose 21 detents pots). Although I don't have anything against continuous controls when doing Mastering, (I use an Spl PQ 2050 which has continous pots) switched or detented controls also allows you to get faster results, especially if you use a lot of different gears in your setup.
Another thing is that I personally don't like my ear to be triggered all the time by the sound of "clic...clic clic". I don't know about other engineers here but I like to listen to the music and hear the change I make without anything else in the middle. That's one of the reason I also use detented potentiometers in my designs instead of switches.