Stock ADL 700 compressor

[MartinC]

I just read "The compressor can be stereo-linked with a second ADL 700 unit for consistent stereo imaging".

What is the signal flow / fx chain to set this up and test this? Why do I need it?

I throw on compressors / anything that sounds good and don't give it much thought. When I read that, I was curious and now want to try it out.

 

[SwitchBack]

The ADL700 is a single channel/mono channel strip. For stereo you need two of them, but then the compressor on the left channel will respond only to the signal level on the left channel and the compressor on the right channel will respond only to the right channel. That can sound as if someone is fiddling with the balance between left and right. With a TRS cable between the comp sockets of both units you can make both compressors act on the same mix of left and right signal. Note that this mix is only used to control the compressors, it is not the signal passed from input to output. The ADL on the left still passes only the left signal, and the ADL on the right only the right signal.

 

[MartinC]

The ADL700 is a single channel/mono channel strip. For stereo you need two of them, but then the compressor on the left channel will respond only to the signal level on the left channel and the compressor on the right channel will respond only to the right channel. That can sound as if someone is fiddling with the balance between left and right. With a TRS cable between the comp sockets of both units you can make both compressors act on the same mix of left and right signal. Note that this mix is only used to control the compressors, it is not the signal passed from input to output. The ADL on the left still passes only the left signal, and the ADL on the right only the right signal.

My mistake was typing ADL 700. I meant the emulation: VT1 Comp. So I would use a channel splitter and put one VT1 on each channel correct?

 

[SwitchBack]

OK. When you add the channel strip/VT1 to a stereo channel you get a strip for left and a strip for right i.e. two of everything, but you get to see only one strip with from what I can hear all elements linked. So when left goes loud then right gets compressed too. I couldn't find a way to unlink the two compressors as is possible on a Series III mixer.