DBX 164 Stereo Compressor Limiter – Maui Recorders John Neff / Walter Becker Collection

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Here is a perfect working DBX 164 from the famous Maui Recorders Studios owned by John Neff and Walter Becker/Steely Dan in the 1980’s.

We got a quite a few nice vintage pieces from the studio and putting some of them up for sale.

John mentioned that he liked to use this on bass and drums when mixing. 

The DBX 164 is a compressor/limiter designed for use in the recording studio. It’s a really simple piece of gear, with only one parameter to work with. It’s an older piece of gear, so it’s got RCA connections and isn’t balanced. You can however, set the level to either -10 db or +4 db. It comes in a single space rack mountable casing.

UTILIZATION

Even if you don’t know a thing about the DBX 164, it’s easy enough to learn how to use this without any help or hints. The only parameter found on the 164 is a slider for setting your compression level. So while you don’t have much control over your sound, it’s very easy to use and doesn’t require too much background knowledge of c…