MN-50 Smash Compressor Colour

Great!

It sure does what it says it will do: smash! So far I've used it on acoustic guitar, drums and vocals and I really like what it does. You can either go all in effect wise and use it as an insert to absolutely destroy things, or for more subtle (well, everything's relative right... ) effect use it in parallell. Great and cheap, would definitely recommend this!

Dirty as hell but in a good way

The direct competitor to the MN-50 Smash Comp is the LTL Implode. Compared to the Implode, it's much less fiddly and maybe a touch less crazy than the Implode at slower release settings. However, once the release goes down, fidelity goes out of the window quickly in a cool way. Technically, it's not as "clean" as the Implode -- it does 0.5 to 1% THD when not doing much, and upwards of 5 % THD when it's doing something. Thankfully, the opamps in the new colour I bought are now socketed so the '70s opamps can be replaced with modern ones. I've switched to an OPA1642 and an OPA1612 without any effect on the THD -- I just don't like '70s opamps. One of the best colour modules to have.