Thoughts on the PreSonus ACP88

[Ryan Richards \(Diesel Breath\)]

Fire away....

[Buster Mudd]

"Ryan Richards \(Diesel Breath\)" <joshakrohn@cox.net> wrote in message news:<8SY0b.47646$Ij4.39706@news2.central.cox.net>...
> Fire away....

It's small.

[Burt Jones]

I like mine a lot.

Burt Jones
Mediastar Productions

[Yuri T.]

I have one. It's a useful unit but not sonically the best. I think it
has more of a home in sound reinforcement than in the studio. 8
channels of expansion and compression at that price isn't going to be
any great shakes. I usually use mine just to gate the drum set when I
want to. I don't reach for it when I want to compress a vocal or
anything like that. A useful tool, good bang for the buck, not going
to cow any 1176's.

[Rick Knepper]

"Yuri T." <tymish@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have one. It's a useful unit but not sonically the best. I think it
> has more of a home in sound reinforcement than in the studio.

In fact, this is the suggested category of usage by Presonus.


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[Guitarboy]

In article <26p1b.1719$HN4.896@newssvr24.news.prodigy.com>, Rick
Knepper <rick@rknepper.com> wrote:

> "Yuri T." <tymish@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:f7d8b3cd.0308220535.5c412970@posting.google.c om...
>
> > I have one. It's a useful unit but not sonically the best. I think it
> > has more of a home in sound reinforcement than in the studio.
>
> In fact, this is the suggested category of usage by Presonus.

isnt this similar to the acp-22?

[Lou Gimenez]

The compressors are useful on a drum kit, the gates are not, for me
--Lou Gimenez
The Music Lab
2" 24track w all the Goodies
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> From: tymish@hotmail.com (Yuri T.)
> Organization: http://groups.google.com/
> Newsgroups: rec.audio.pro
> Date: 22 Aug 2003 06:35:51 -0700
> Subject: Re: Thoughts on the PreSonus ACP88
>
> I have one. It's a useful unit but not sonically the best. I think it
> has more of a home in sound reinforcement than in the studio. 8
> channels of expansion and compression at that price isn't going to be
> any great shakes. I usually use mine just to gate the drum set when I
> want to. I don't reach for it when I want to compress a vocal or
> anything like that. A useful tool, good bang for the buck, not going
> to cow any 1176's.

[Monte P McGuire]

In article <8SY0b.47646$Ij4.39706@news2.central.cox.net>,
Ryan Richards \(Diesel Breath\) <joshakrohn@cox.net> wrote:
>Fire away....

The gates stink and the compressors are so so, but basically usable.
The best thing you could say is that it's small and dense, but for me,
it's a waste of 3U. I tend to bypass them when I encounter them at a
live show and use my own stuff, but YMMV... For me, the 2 knob dbx
gate built into a compressor (like the 166, 266, 1066 etc.) works far
better.

I know people that like them though, so maybe it works for your style.
Try one out and see what it does...


Regards,

Monte McGuire
mcguire@theworld.com