how much to pay for a DBX 118 "vintage" comp

[poland]

Hi all,
The compressor is a DBX 118 Dynamic Range Enhancer. From the 70s I think.
Wooden sides, black front. RCA Connectors.
How much should I pay for such a thing?
TIA, Poland

[Scott Dorsey]

poland > wrote:
>The compressor is a DBX 118 Dynamic Range Enhancer. From the 70s I think.
>Wooden sides, black front. RCA Connectors.
>How much should I pay for such a thing?

That's not a compressor. It's quite the opposite.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[William Sommerwerck]

Actually, I'm pretty certain the 117, 118, and 119 could both compress and
expand. The 117, which I owned, definitely could do both.

The 118 is a consumer product, and the kind of compression and expansion it
supplies is not the kind most professionals want.

Scott Dorsey wrote...

> poland wrote...

>> The compressor is a dbx 118 Dynamic Range
>> Enhancer. From the 70s I think.
>> Wooden sides, black front. RCA connectors.
>> How much should I pay for such a thing?

> That's not a compressor. It's quite the opposite.

[Bryson]

William Sommerwerck wrote:

> Actually, I'm pretty certain the 117, 118, and 119 could both compress and
> expand. The 117, which I owned, definitely could do both.
>
> The 118 is a consumer product, and the kind of compression and expansion it
> supplies is not the kind most professionals want.


Yes, it's made to compress to tape, and expand from
tape.....crude noise reduction.

It can make for a cool effect like the Level-Loc, Dyna-Mite,
MXR Mini Lim, etc.

I see them go from $30 to $70 on eBay, but wait 'till Joe Hot
Rock engineer talks in an interview about using it..... $600
baby! Then the re-issue.....then the plug-in......

[Twist Turner]

I"ve picked up a a couple at flea markets and turned them over on ebay
this summer. I got over a hundred for 1 and maybe $65 or so for the
other. BTW-they do both expansion and compression





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