Quote Originally Posted by loopdon
@basil:

i suppose you know someone with that piece of kit flying around, basil?

compression as an effect no to just calm peaks etc.



as a plugin disco dsp's nightshine is supposed to mimik the alesis 3630 compressor. there's plugin demos for this one here:

http://www.discodsp.com/fx/
Bizarrely I have an Alesis 3630 in the cupboard, I'll wack it across a pair of ins and outs on the computer and try it on the mix tomorrow :)