Is there Distressor hardware clones out there?

nezvers

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I can't afford for original, at least for few years, but maybe there is clones or cheaper DIY versions (I prefer not DIY)?
 
not really.
It's loosely based on an 1176 and then some, so one of the many 1176 clones can get you in the ball park
 
The Antress plugin version of it gets the same character suprisingly. Hardware-wise I find the DBX 160 XT (transformer version) can do a pretty good second for that same boingy compression snap.
 
From my knowledge 1176 is more like limiter with it's attack. I'm more interested in distressor because it's saturation and known drum processing abilities.
 
A compressor become a limiter with a ratio past 20.1. That have nothing to do with attack/release.

For the OP: look over gearslutz, distressor pop up sometimes for 850/900$
 
I realise this is a late response but I´ve been working on a Distressor Clone for a few months. It´s not an easy job

You can check my stuff out at my website (clone-audio) :bah: