Original Vintage UREI 1176 Blue Stripe sounds fantastic

Here is the Original UREI 1176 Blue Stripe Rev. B. Holy grail classic compressor with very low SN: 670.

I have also 1176 black face and 1178. Blue Stripe is definitely the best sounding and it can do what other compressors cannot.  

I paid $12000 and I want to get no less. I will be more happy to keep this unit in my studio. It works properly and sounds fantastic.

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The Bluestripe 1176 compressor, known for its aggressive sound.

The 1176 became an instant favorite with producers and engineers because of its unique lightning-fast attack and release times (20 µS to 800 µS Attack, 50 mS to 1.1 seconds for Release), its Class A output stage, and its wide range of sounds, ranging from a very subtle, near-transparent compression at 4:1, to its most notable setting, the “All Buttons In” mode, where all the ratio buttons are depressed simultaneously. This allowed the 1176 to make a sound unlike any other processor ever heard before. Distortion increased, along with a plateaued slope and a lag time in response to initial transients, creating an explosive sound on drum room mics, making an incredible grungy bass or electric guitar sound, or squeezing a vocal so it sat right in your face.

Sound

So what does an 1176 “sound” like? The characteristic that most 1176 lovers agree on is that what comes out is better than what went in. There’s a brightness and presence, an “energy” imparted, according to Mike Clink from Guns ‘N’ Roses. Bruce Swedien used his 1176 on all the Michael Jackson vocals he recorded. Some even use the 1176 with the compression turned off, just for the distinctive tone it imparts. The amplifiers and transformers all by themselves give a desirable “hot” quality to anything passing through them.

How It Works

The 1176 is a “feedback” compressor. The signal goes through the input stage, via the line input transformer, which has a big impact on the sound. From there, the signal is routed to the top of a FET, which is being used as a variable voltage resistor. Depending on the revision of the unit, the FET is either used to shunt some of the input signal to ground, or as the top leg of a voltage divider in parallel to the input of a pre-amplifier stage. The resistance between the Drain and Source leads of the FET will change in response to voltage applied to the Gate lead.

In the later revisions, the relationship between fixed resistances and the FET’s dynamic resistance affects the gain of the circuit. As the signal flows to the output stage, it is tapped and also sent to a sidechain detector circuit. This sidechain develops a Gate control voltage for the FET based on the dynamics and level of the input signal, as well as the front panel control settings.