Polyend Press Compressor

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Interesting sidechains but no mid/side (as found on the Golden Master)

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Excited, but so confused about the apparent number of ins and outs on this. Looking forward to a picture of the back.

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From the press blurb:

ā€œConnects include 1ā„4 TRS audio input jacks and a 1ā„8ā€ stereo sidechain thru.ā€

Looks cool!

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Yeah, thatā€™s what got me curious. It says input jacks so I guess we can assume the two jacks we see from the top view are L & R in. Maybe out is 1/8" also?!

Oh, or more likely maybe 1/4" stacked just below so the top ones hide them? It didnā€™t look that thick, but I think the depth in that photo first photo deceiving.

Anyway, always happy to see a comp with external sidechain. And putting independent high- and low-pass filters on it is :kissing_closed_eyes::ok_hand:

I have to image those work on the internal sidechain as well.

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Iā€™m guessing the reference to TRS means one stereo jack L/R for both input and output.

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Looking for a sidechain pedal like the Pill.
It could be it if they have proper sidechain input and output through ā€¦ :pray:

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Until the people behind the Polyend curtain reveals the back side of this thing so we can view the inputs/outputs Iā€™m going to file this away as vaporware.

It might end up as a product someday ā€“ and I hope it does ā€“ but as it current stands I canā€™t allow myself to get invested.

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Damn! That looks ugly. :see_no_evil:

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thereā€™s a sneak peak here (also bit more in depth run-through)

looks like two 1/4" and 3.5mm for the sidechain, not sure whatā€™s the other 3.5mm, maybe midi? dunno

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I think it looks great.

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Iā€™m definitely going to get one if it has a good sound.

For the last 5 years (since I got into hardware music production) the only options for affordable stereo compressors were the fmr rnc, art pro vla, ehx platform maybe joe meek or an alesis, upper end would be Boum and maybe warm audio bus comp more recently, before you get into actual high end prices

Now we have the Behringer neve compressor, this, and a bunch of pedals including multiband stereo compression

This is incredible

I like the look of the pedal in general but the yellow knobs? Not my taste.

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Source Audio Atlas, UAD Max

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And I was going to say I love the look! haha!

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Thatā€™s why itā€™s probably hard for companies to pick a color scheme for their devices. We all have different tastes.

It was a fully functional prototype available for anyone at SB willing to try it and test it. Hardware-wise it looked like a finished product (to me at least). The features worked as expected.

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:yawning_face:
Sure first I buy a whole ā€žmake an albumā€œ groove box and then a brick with half its size which only does some compression. Typical filler product to finance the software maintenance of the other products.