The Tasmanian wrote:Paul Maybury is your only hope here ..
Best of luck!
Wow! The thlot plickens!
Stating to sound like a scene from Star Wars .. I like it!
You know you're in the right place when that happens.. hehe
I'll get in touch with Paul and see what he reckons..
It sounds like if my compressor is actually not working I might be in trouble.. If it's something simple I might be alright, but otherwise I might just have to look upon it as a nice 10-band inductor EQ unit only.
I did find this brief description in Rob's "On The Bench" (AT66) archives:
WHAT’S EATING THE GILBERT MULTIPLIER?The Gilbert multiplier is an array of transistors
usually packaged into an IC that is mostly used in
radio and analogue computing. However, a couple of
manufacturers cottoned on to its potential in audio
compressors. Essentially the device mathematically
multiplies two voltages, and if one of those
voltages is an audio signal and the other a control
voltage then a controllable gain device is created.
While similar to VCAs they require a different
implementation. Audix and EMT used multiplier
ICs to create compressors that, while fairly obscure,
are probably quite under-rated."
Thanks for the info Chris the Tasmanian!