Hi Bob,
i am sure you are right. The Weiss is great. I spent twice some weeks with the EQ1Mk2 and a bit less time with the DS1Mk2.
That is definately not enough to get everything out of them.
In an digital workstation environment the 128 memory preset
storage was too oldfashioned to me to accept this today, and i
am not a bookkeeper and no daily midi dumper.
I was comparing the EQ1mk2 with the Algorithmics in parallel but thats another thing and since then i use both Red & Orange PEQ
and are very lucky with it
Sometimes i have recordings where several De-Ess frequencies need to be attenuated. For example 5k 8k & 12k. In Bandpass (narrow) mode i can control one frequency thats it, so i would need 3 DS1Mk2 !
In wideband the results are ok but i prefer narrow band mode. So hihats are affected as well in wide mode (or how is it called).
The compressor is another story, its great, but i own a lot of great analog compressors.
But that was not what i was looking for that time. Just was interested in the de-esser to use it as a working horse
in my daily disk mastering job.
If i would purchased it 5 years ago i would probably still be happy and using it still sometimes.
I think i am waiting for something fresh which is easy to embed
in a workstation alike environment. not via AES/EBU. But there is something on the way like this from Weiss so lets see hope and wait. Or maybe some other company finally get a great de-esser plugin written.
greetings
Andreas
Schnittstelle
Mastering & Vinylschnitt
Frankfurt Germany