Warm Audio WA-1B for bass and Tube Tech CL-1B for vocals. Both sound fine, but have some also non wanted artifacts.

I bought a Chorda on release and it malfunctioned after 3 weeks so bad that Sweetwater had to send me another one. Within 5 days, my replacement experienced the same malfunction. I haven't seen any actual videos for the Chorda that Artiphon isn't involved with. Take this as a minor warning.

I feel the WA-1B adds a slight amount of coloration to the high mids? But it works for my studio use.

Do you have to connect it to something in order to record? Can you record to internal storage?

Whats the main difference between the chorda and orba 2. Other than the strum chord thing. I bothered to invest in the popupiano and the populele. The popupiano is rubbish! Would be awsome if it had a speaker built in! I also invested in the Pocket Operator KO 33 but i never use it because its to complicated! My son owns the Akai mini play standalone midi keyboard. The chorda is £210 vs the orba 2 at £110. My main instrument is guitar. I was liking the orba for its looping drum patterns and sampler.. I was thinking drum patters for hip hop and backing tracks. I only really like stand alone stuff. I even have 2 pignose guitars and a street cube 2. I like the video of the guy playing the loog guitar with the orba 2. Cheaper than teenage engineering

Sounds an order of magnitude better than the u87 to my ears

Thanks for the video! i would lik to know: If you use a DJ-controler, can you still use the app: equalizer of preferences or... does the controler take over an is the Sounboks 'neutral'??

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A noise gate is strongly suggested

Great review, thanks for doing it. I'm thinking ... wait for availability of Instrument 1.

Superb work thanks

Great review and comparison mate, thanks for doing this!

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This song is too good to be called "Test." 🤩

This comp sounds good!!! I wish they didn’t advertise this as a clone 😢 I think it would do great on its own. The comparisons hurt it more than it helps. *Side note* wonder if anyone’s tried swapping out the tubes (telefunken maybe) in attempt to open it up a bit on the top end..that would be cool to hear

The Warm would be a bargain if it was $500. If you’re going to spend less than $1500 on a compressor, you should just buy a Distressor. The compression on the warm audio device always sounds like the attack is an out of control logarithmic setting, which it shouldn’t. On every video I’ve seen demoing this clone ad about fiveDB of game reduction the low mids go to crap

Warm 1B is a really good compressor. Not sure it should be a clone, it could stand on its own.

I actually have a question, who actually listens to music in mono that’s patronizing music? Just asking because at the foreseeable moment I own both units and not a single client can tell the difference between units. I think both do have different applications because of how the transient response is but it’s interesting to hear perspectives of everyone hearing it isolated in mono but in a mix will you be able to spot this price of gear. By the time this stuff hits the post it will be impossible to tell tbh. I’m just curious what the point of complaining about a unit that ultimately dosent sound as harsh as certain songs on the billboard charts.

Only thing I would have done is dial in the Attack/Release on one of the units, to be closer to the other one. Seems like obviously having them at the same settings, it still differs quite a bit. The Release was faster on the CL1B, and the Attack was faster/more grabby on the Warm at the same settings.

Subscribed, thanks for the demo!

Thanks for the comparison. To be honest, I feel like I could get better results than the Warm with the Softube CL-1B + some analog modeling tricks.

Warm audio made a good compressor but not going to revival the CL1B

damn, such a huge difference

It’s day and night. the warm audio is not comparable. the mid-bass is not silky and that's precisely why I like the CL-B1. The release is brutal and saturated with the warm audio. That said, this unit is not uninteresting for the price. thank you for this comparison. (I listened to 0llo s4x headphones) that’s just my opinion.

Nice board - I have one too. Love mine.

$1,200.00 is still too much cash for a clone. $800.00 MAX would be acceptable.. Theres little resale investment on clones.

ok ive been bashing the warm but i think combined with the clariphonic eq it would work...in its raw form it kinda feels boxy and pushed in mids...not really true to the source.

Thanks for the Wav file download link!!

Thanks for the review. I still want to hear more.

Nothing a proper software compressor cannot do for you.

Thanks for doing this. I'm getting one!

Awesome, but next time lookout and try to adjust things with your ears too, as you’ve missed the attack settings on wa.

Thanks for posting. IMO, there is a pretty big gap in performance, especially in the highs and upper mids. Yes, some low end is lacking on the Warm, but the Mids and Upper mids are critical for getting a track to sit in a mix. The CL1B, does a much better job smoothing out any harshness in the mids and upper mids, while keeping the good transients. This is really noticeable in the male vocal track, there is an unpleasant upper harmonic poking out with the Warm, that the Tube-Tech got rid of, while retaining the good transients. Suprising because Warm can usually get much closer than this.

Great review, I've always been sceptical about Warm audio but they did good for their take on the CL1B, both transparent, but lacks a bit of low end, nothing bad though.

I’m pretty sure that some company will offer a mod for the wa1b to make it sound closer to the original. Ima get it.

tube tech 5:32 wa1b 5:48

CL1B JUST SOUNDS BETTER

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