DBX 266XS Dual Compressor/Gate

Gate works well for very quite bleed not so much for average bleed, the compressor works well and transparent. No complaints about the build quality it feels more expensive than it is. Overall a good buy a better compressor would be 3 times the price and I would probably question the build quality of those. For a budget starter compressor a definite buy (if you know how to use compressors and gates). You can hear the DBX 160 sound (when pushed) that you get in the Plugin versions of DBX. Nothing to write home about but for a first compressor, it is a bargain from a big name in the industry and likely to stay in the rack even after buying more expensive gear.

Good compressor, really easy to use with some great features, Its a simple compressor with 2 mono channels but can be summed to a stereo channel with a button on the unit. The gate is very useful too, if turned on full you can get a really cool tremolo effect. Great product over all and a good price too.

Great piece of kit, not one of the more expensive units but still does the job. Very transparent in the mix.

I thought to buy it for a very long time because I wanted a nice compression in. the sound it is not really affected and this can be a plus but it is good only if you use subtle. With a good make up gain it lose quality. I am returning my one as it does not fit my purpose but I have to say it is a great pieac of equipment if you just need something to plug the microphone in and use it for conference or thing like that

my only dislike is the fact that it does not have an on/off switch

Recommend this compressor to anyone looking for a rugged, tough low budget unit to use in recording or taking on tour. I've used this unit on a 6 month tour and haven't encountered any problems with it so far, its brilliant on vocals and bass guitar

I plugged this in and there was a quiet buzz from the transformer in the right-hand side of the unit (not in the signal). It was annoying enough since it was being picked up on my mic recordings, but it was doing a good job of compressing, but then as 20 mins elapsed, it just continued to increase in volume. No amount of fiddling with dials, cables, or surfaces would solve the problem. It was completely apparent on my vocal recordings. It gets 2 stars, since my voice was sounding good, but I can't be working with this buzzing going on. Not only do I not want it in my recordings, it's borderline torture to hear. There's no switch either, so you'd have to unplug it to rid of the din. I have no option but to return it.

Very happy with this. It fills out the sound on the way in, controlling peaks, and combines well with my pre-73 mic preamp.

Recomendable buen equipo buen producto tiene una fidelidad de audio tremendo son bueno llego antes de la fecha mencionada

These compressors work very well. My application is probably not the usual one because I'm not using these for recording or studio work, although I can see how they'd be excellent, especially for digital recording where you absolutely must prevent clipping in the recording process. In my case, I got tired of never being able to understand the quiet dialog when watching TV or movies at home without setting the listening levels so high that it was annoying during the loud scenes. This is related to why I never go out to see movies at a movie theater. When you need hearing protection to avoid hearing damage, that's not my idea of entertainment, and certainly not entertainment I have to pay for! With some custom built cables, I connected one of these units between the audio outputs of our TV and one set of inputs to our receiver while allowing the "straight" TV Outs to feed another input pair on the receiver. When watching shows that are already highly compressed, we can switch to the "straight TV" inputs, but when watching many movies, and lots of newer TV shows, we can switch to the "compressed TV" inputs and enjoy being able to hear and understand the quietest dialog while preserving our hearing during the loud scenes. Of course, you may still need to use the closed captioning to decipher the "English" spoken during many BBC productions, but the compression does help there, too! ;) In this application, I am not using the downward expansion (noise gating) at all because noise reduction in the quiet parts is not really needed. I am using the "over-easy" function, and the automatic setting of the attack and release time constants, and find that all to work very well, keeping the sound quite natural despite the fairly heavy-handed compression I have dialed in. In addition, the ability to link the two channels so that the RMS sum of the signal levels into the two channels determines the compression applied to both channels simultaneously is very handy, and I have that engaged as well. My wife and I really are enjoying this setup and it's made our TV viewing much more pleasurable. I'm using a second one of these compressors to process the audio from a police scanner to bring the quiet talkers' voice levels way up so they can be heard while keeping the normal and loud talkers from blasting our ears off. That signal, too, can be selected as one of the inputs to the receiver. Without the compression, it would be downright dangerous to feed the audio from such a source into a good audio system for fear of what kinds of horrible noises might be fed, at high power, through your "good" speakers. Again, for this channel, I am using the automatic attack/release timing switch, which seems to work very well, choosing the right attack and release time constants to make for good intelligibility without pumping or subjecting us to bursts of loud noise. It's very tame, indeed. And as with the TV system, I am not using the downward expansion/noise gating function. When the radios are unkeyed, the output is pretty much silent anyhow. In this scanner system, I am not using the "over-easy" function because I want a sharper cut-off transition to really bring up the very soft talkers while holding the loud sounds (Plectron alerts and the like) down to sane levels. This source doesn't need to sound "natural". In general, I'm not a huge fan of compression of music during playback. I want to hear the full dynamic range that the orchestra conductor and recording engineer wanted me to hear. But then, when I listen to music, it's under controlled conditions, in a quiet room, and I am free to turn things up to whatever level I prefer. However, I can see how some compression might be handy for such cases as listening in a car, where you've already got 75dB or so of road noise to overcome, or during a party or get-together where people will want to hold conversations, yet might want some background music. And, of course, for recording, particularly live performances where the artists may get a bit over-enthusiastic during the real performance and play louder than they did during reherasals/sound checks, I can see where having some compression set up could really save the day and prevent a recording from being totally spoiled. Not to mention the obvious guitar sustain or other effects possible with a compressor. Anyhow, I've been running these for a month and a half, and have had no problems or issues of any sort. They've been reliable so far, and perform the functions I need quite well. And I felt that the price was quite reasonable for what you get. The controls feel solid, the build looks very nice, the connectors seem reliable, etc. And the various displays are very handy for setting levels and knowing where you're at. This unit seems like a solid, well thought-out design.

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Excellent compresseur, facile à utiliser et très efficace.

DBX es una gran marca. Este es para directo, pero llevo mucho tiempo usandolos en mi estudio de grabación y puedo decir que parte de la discografia española la he grabado con estos procesadores de señal. Gracias a Amazon, podemos diponer de este tipo de material a muy buen precio y sin salir de casa.