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This table provides an overview of your statutory consumer rights, compared with our standard returns policy and optional extended money back guarantee and warranty.
| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 30 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
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Key Features
The Arturia Comp DIODE-609 is a plug-in replica of the legendary UK-made diode-based compressor/limiter hardware. Famed for the warm, smooth and powerful characteristics it imparts onto any track, Comp DIODE-609 is ideal for transient and dynamics shaping and enhancement for individual tracks and full masters. Delivering an unquestionable analog character, Comp DIODE-609 is built using Arturia's proprietary Phi and TAE technologies to deliver an indistinguishable sonic character and realism with authentic parameters, just like the real hardware.
Chosen by artists such as Daft Punk, Michael Buble and Coldplay, the Comp DIODE-609 features a simple design with a huge range of flexibility. Enhanced for modern producers and mixing engineers, Comp DIOE-609 features mid-sie processing, a built-in sidechain with EQ and lookahead functions, continuous controls to mix between the lines, mono/stereo modes and much more. Not a transparent sound, Comp DIODE-609 has a distinct character and colouration which suits everything from softening the peak transients to adding punch to drums or squashing lead vocals.
Product Ref: 254390
Traditionally, the original hardware features stepped controls, letting you adjust your settings in bold chunks. Of course, the Comp DIODE-609 includes this but also includes continuous control capabilities, letting you mix between the lines. Additional features include mid-side processing with built-in sidechain EQ controls and unit calibration parameters. The newly-appointed Unit Calibration parameter lets you virtually adjust the diode-bridge circuitry to reduce the headroom for a more compressed and harmonically-rich sound.
A cornerstone throughout the industry, Arturia have captured the complete sonic definition of the original hardware in the Comp DIODE-609. Built with groundbreaking engineering, Comp DIODE-609 lets you inject the signature glue, punch and warmth into your tracks. The unique diode-bridge design stands out from other compressor designs and is perfectly capable of adding fatness to a bass guitar, colouration to your vocal bus, the final volume push to your master bus and so much more.
Not just a compressor, Comp DIODE-609 also features a crunchy and colourful limiter. Anything but transparent, the limiting circuit includes all the necessary parameters to tailor the response to any mix including threshold, recovery and an attack speed switch ranging from Fast to Slow. Even when used to protect the peaks of your mix with light gain reduction, the warmth and analog flavour it imparts is undeniable, making it ideal for use with digitally recorded tracks to remove their sterile sound.
Featuring several different modes, Comp DIODE-609 lets you tackle any stereo configuration. Dual Mono and Stereo modes are available along with Mid-Side processing. Opening up a whole new dimension of control over your stereo field, Mid-Side processing lets you independently adjust the left and right channels from your mono source. Ideal for compressing/limiting specific instruments in your stereo field, you can compress the centre mono channel for a consistent bass, 808 or bass drum sound without affecting your stereo guitars, piano, vocals and more.
Onboard sidechain functionality inside Arturia Comp DIODE-609 means that you won't need to reach for any external plug-ins to sidechain your compression/limiting. Packed with functionality, Comp DIODE-609's sidechain includes an adjustable look-ahead amount, side-chain EQ and side-chain listen function. Perfect for adding space to a mix between your low-end instruments or for creating pumping pads, vocals and more.
Essential for compressor/limiters, Comp DIODE-609 features independent gain reduction meters for left and right channels. Additionally, a digital meter is included which shows the differences between original audio levels and the wet signals gain reduction in real-time.
Coming included with dozens of handy presets for a wide range of applications, you can achieve a professional sound quickly. Tight deadlines and difficult mixes can often leave no time for creativity, so why not try searching through the onboard presets to do the heavy lifting for you? From tightening vocals, enhancing sustain and punch on synthesizers, smashing bass guitar and more, you can search, tag and favourite your most-used presets to come back to time and again.
Using proprietary modelling algorithms, Comp DIODE-609 can recreate the iconic instruments down to the component parts to create unrivalled realism and immersion. Unmatched in analog emulation, Comp DIODE-609 is powered by TAE and Phi technologies. TAE offers component-level modelling to accurately present the characteristics and behaviour of the instrument, whilst Phi's state-of-the-art physical modelling brings the acoustic properties into the virtual world for hyper-realism. The result is truly a next-level sound that is indistinguishable from the original to add to your productions.
