I'm looking to buy a secondhand finalizer and i have a £700.00 pound buget,witch one would you recommend me to buy.

Should this unit be used for anything other than as a guitar and bass pre. Would it have any drawbacks for vocals or acoustic guitar or congas or kick/snare?

Which would you prefere for program or overall mix compression before two track FMR RNC or Drawmer DL241? Why? Thanks

Hello all,

I'm currently in the market for a 2 ch. mic preamp. I'm interested in the CRane Song Flamingo and the Avalon AD2022. I'm also looking to get a few channels of compression as well, so I thought I'd throw in the Drawmer 1969 as an option and potentially kill two birds with one stone.

I know these are relatively low end comps, but Im just a humble aumatuer noise-maker, looking for professional advice. These will be used for taking care of toms, mostly. Or, perhaps youve heard better results on other instruments. There is also Drawmer's DL241 which is a bit more, but still in my range. I talked to Fletcher about this, and he raved about the RNC as being very clear.

ok. so i need a good stereo compressor. preferebly no super expensive.

these two look lik egood options:
the pendulum electro optical compressor, and the 1969.

and the 2 mic preamp's on the 1969 would be really nice.

but is the pendulum better enough to warrent no getting 2 mic preamp's and a DI for only 250 more?

I'd like my finished PT24 mixes to go through a nice compressor before I mix to analog tape but I can't decide between a pair of distressors or drawmer 1969. I've never used either of these and have only heard great things about them. The goal, of course, is to get that final bit of laquer on a mix, take some of the digital edge off, when going to tape.