… I got really bad news for you about rackmount gear…
edit: also the market for stereo analog compressor pedals has been in a state of high demand and low supply for years now, if this lil box sounds solid I would consider it a success from Polyend, especially with the on-the-face sidechain filters (which is literally the most influential and important part of a compressor circuit on the action and tone of a compressor imo)
Ah, so the sidechain thru isn’t an insert like in an RNC. That makes sense now. And I suppose that makes it possible that the internal SC could go out on the thru also? Maybe post filter?
I still think the I/O here is a little odd. It’s like, keep thru separate and make everything 1/8" jacks, or combine sidechain and thru into an insert and bump everything up to 1/4". But totally picking nits at this point. It brings together a lot of desktop compressor features nothing else is really doing all of:
Feels like it sits right in the sweet spot of what I want out of a pumping techno compressor.
And hey - taste is subjective. So it’s all good.
I know! Feeling stoked.
You mean that it’s just as unsuitable for gigs?
stares at my rackmount case
… yeah!
Touchè. But I rather spend my money on coke than on roadies.
Same
It’s a stereo sidechain, I believe, so combining them on an insert wouldn’t work. I don’t disagree about the oddness, though.
Looks like it has everything for the perfect sidechain pedal, hopefully it s not gonna be more than 300eur. Especially considering you will have to invest in 4x 1/8 stereo to dual 1/4 mono cables to use it.
am I missing a price estimation on the Press? if they didn’t give any, it still could cost as much as Boum, also the Boum is a distortion unit so there’s that on top of the compressor
I thought about this too, these stereo 1/4" will cost something, getting the adapters and the 3.5mm cables, they are not that cheap, and in the video I posted when he moved the unit there was this connection noise which I absolutely hate, and it’s always the same with these 1/4"-3.5mm adapters
yeah the uad max looked really good. digital, but still i hear from an employee that those uad pedals are very nice, particularly the space echo clone (the individual algo version)
but right now, we’re starting to see a lot more, not just pedals, but very affordable hardware stereo compressors. last 2-3 years there has been the endorphines golden master, the aforementioned uad max, and 1176 (are these stereo?), stimmings crazy expensive thing, probably more i cant think of
im leaning toward the behringer 369 because of the transformers/neve diode compression and limiting but yeah a sidechain input and filter would be nice. dont really need it to be portable but it looks small and light enough for an analog rackmount stereo compressor
although i do wonder how that compares to the BSS DPR-402 which ive only recently discovered. hard to judge
obviously i dont know but i think this will be cheaper than the boum. i dont feel like polyend prices their gear as high as other “boutique” level manufacturers. the tracker and play are cheaper than the deluge and digitakt
boum doesnt even have dedicated knobs per compressor parameter. no individual ratio/threshold setting and attack is a menu setting
ugh yeah the new 369 looks so good, i’ll likely end up waiting until I can get one secondhand but I’m very excited about it too
I wasn’t aware of UAD Max. Looks interesting. Have you used it as end of chain for a stereo mix signal?
I don’t have a Max. I do have the Atlas. There s a thread about it.
Yeah I’m familiar with Atlas😊 seems alright. Was just curious about the Max
Anyone heard anything new about the Press? Availability was teased to be this fall… looks dead silent, though. 
They’re waiting until the Press+ is ready and will then release the Press about four months before that.
Meh 
