For Sale is an original DBX 160VU. A very rare and sought after vintage audio tool. This is the first VCA compressor, and its sound is instantly recognizable. I love it for bass and kick drum, but its awesome to ride vocals, control electric guitars, and warm up keyboards. Simple threshold, ratio and output gain controls. The ratio knob is not ...

2020年11月20日 · The Original dbx 160 ‘VU’ (1976) Released in 1976, dbx’s first dynamic range compressor for professional audio was reportedly not a particularly popular idea with Blackmer, whose primary objective was to increase the dynamic range of recorded audio. Nevertheless, the two-rackspace, half-width box would prove popular with engineers looking ...

The DBX 160 (also referred to as 160 VU), designed by David Blackmer and released in 1976, is an early VCA (voltage-controlled amplifier) type compressor / limiter. This half-rack unit features simple controls (threshold, compression, output) and a large VU meter with switchable function.

2002年7月15日 · The 160VU is set to kick in past 0 db at 4:1 and another opto kicks in earlier with a gentle ratio. They are very usable tapping them for kick, snare. They sound god on clean electric guitars, trumpets that are too dynamic sounding and for background vocals that you want to sit nicely as a chunk together.

The original dbx 160 unit is still considered the very best in a long line of VCA compressors that continues to this day. Unlike later monolithic IC units, the VU uses a series of components for gain reduction, and therefore has unique nonlinearities not found in its later cousins—giving it a sonic distinction and a higher value.

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2025年3月15日 · For sale is a racked pair of DBX compressors, a model 160vu and model 161. Both are tested and fully fucntional, and were just serviced as needed in-house by our technicians, including a recap of both units.

2025年1月9日 · It’s important to delineate the two versions we’ll discuss: the commonly found DBX 160X, XT and A, and the original DBX 160, sometimes referred to as the DBX 160VU because of the VU meters that communicate the input, output and gain reduction. The DBX 160 was introduced in 1976, and aesthetically it harkens back to that time.

Classic white VU 160 compressors with XLR pigtails. Amazing on kick, snare, bass guitars, with just the right attack/release. Just tap the kick/snare with it before going to ProTools, to get some tape compression feel. Might be the best bass comp on …

2007年2月27日 · Has anybody thought about DIYing the dbx 160vu. It's my favourite compressor for kicks and basses and wonder how hard it'd be to DIY one. It uses a dbx 202 right?