I know you were a little turned off by the price, especially after we all found it this wasn't going to be a 1:1 Distressor.TheoM wrote:why would i ignore it..
Give the demo a go when you really have some time you can dedicate to exploring it. After almost 6 weeks with Arousor, I like it a lot more today than I did on day 1. Some key things about it:
1. The range on the attack knob here is huge. More so than I'm used to. You can really hear the difference here between the Attack on 0 (microseconds) and the attack on 2 (miliseconds).
2. I barely touch the release knob on this one, anything from 100-200 ms seems to just work on everything.
3. More Attack Mod rounds the shape of the transient. On drums like Kick, I was putting it as high as 6-8 with a 9ms attack time to get a nice round, fat transient.
4. Watch the Saturation meter. It doesn't always need tweaking from default, but if you're looking to increase the apparent loudness on instruments with a sharp transient and shave those peaks, then get this in the yellow or red.
5. HP filter in the detector works as expected, and the sidechain EQ can be put to good creative effect.
6. The mix knob is a little weird in how the gain works, and I barely ever use Mix knobs on comps, but it's nice to have I suppose.