Aphex Punch Factory demo

Demonstration of the Punch Factory compressor. SX SB301 bass into the compressor, then into clean power amp. Excuse my shoddy playing!

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Education

Tags:

• Aphex
• punch
• factory
• bass
• pedal
• demo

[JahreedST]

hey thanks for posting a demo about this pedal it seems nobody thought about it before and i was looking hell a lot for one! :)

i'm about to buy one, and also play bass so my question is: can it even notes so that they don't sound abused but natural? i play kinda psychedelic music where the bass needs to be sterile as like in electronic music so that's what i need even notes although not during whole song but in some parts of them.

sorry for the rush of questions! :)

[cdawzrd]

I'd say thats what it does best. Being an optical compressor, it is going for a more "natural" sounding compression, not a "squashy" compression as in some other pedals. It evens out your playing dynamics and can help the bass work better with other effects such as synths, some fuzzes, etc. For your kind of music, you ought to get the effect you want by turning the drive up and setting the volume to taste, then leaving the thing on all the time.

[Polyinstrumentalism]

@zarigunn +1 for observation and good taste. I'm getting one of these and my personal tonal preference seems to be telling me that i'll be using it in the off position a lot of the time. But this video does a great job to me of illustrating exactly how i might like to use it.

[sonicwingnut]

I own one of these (£40 off ebay, bargain), and they are indeed very nice. At more extreme settings you can use them as a nice lead boost for distorted guitar, but the really handy thing is they double as a DI box and splitter, so awesome for people recording or reamping. Plus it can be phantom powered via the XLR output too. I'll run my guitar through it and out to the amp then use the XLR output to record the instrument signal direct to my PC so I can record a clean version of the performance.

[orangehasrhymes]

Thanks for this demo! Have you used this compressor with a guitar too? I've been thinking of getting an optical compressor to replace my current compressor that I bought without knowing the difference... XD

[zarigunn]

play without, it sound much warmer.

really honnest

[hidingthetreeline]

@AmazingTone it does, he just makes up the lost gain (from the compressor reducing the volume of the louder notes) with the volume knob

[jn777]

@ghettometalhead I used with guitar too, and is on all the time, its a basic part of my rig

[ghettometalhead]

Am I the Only guitar player who uses this? I love it on in tandem with my Mesa Dual Rec.

[kanirip]

If this is DI'd, how come you can hear people talking in the background? :)

[zarigunn]

@AmazingTone means its a verry compressor x)

strange huh ?