# Rough Rider Update...

- Site: Analog Industries
- Author: Chris Randall
- Date: 2008-09-24
- URL: https://analogindustries.com/2008/09/rough-rider-update/

I've added a Rough Rider page to the [AD store,](http://www.audiodamage.com/) so you can gaze longingly at a screenshot and some bullet points.

## Comments (10)

**noisegeek** (2008-09-24):

"We left off the actual time values, so you're gonna have to use your ears, like the he-men did it in times of myth."

Fantastic. Thank you.

**TicTacShutUp** (2008-09-24):

Awesome. I am really excited about this.

And I agree about knob values.

**mad ep** (2008-09-24):

gangsta

**inteliko** (2008-09-24):

Everyone uses presets anyway ;)

**shamann** (2008-09-24):

People use presets on a compressor? My faith in people has been shaken.

**Chris Randall** (2008-09-24):

Actually, that makes me chuckle, because I was pondering how to do the presets. I was thinking about how input-dependent a compressor or equalizer was, yet people still payed money for Chris Lord-Alge presets for some reason.

In any event, what I did was put the first preset as a reasonable starting state, then a couple of the NUKE settings which will have the same result on most anything. There are only 5, so I thought that was pretty reasonable.

-CR

**noisegeek** (2008-09-24):

You could always market it as having presets by Chris Lord-Randall. Then again, marketing a free product probably isn't the best use of time or money.

**mad ep** (2008-09-24):

with all due respect, chris-

(and as someone who loves the AD presets as a whole)

i would thing even 5 presets is overkill. i could imagine maybe 3... but compression is the most personal of all fx/plugs/etc...

in that respect, compression is almost like the j.s. bach 'solo cello suites': everyone has their own ideas of exactly how it should sound, no matter what anyone else has done in the past, present or future..

that said- rough rider is free and i am happy to have it regardless how many or how little presets come with it. so, um, yeah.... just do what you do.

.m

**studio nebula** (2008-09-24):

Maybe I'll put in just one preset, using CR's "reasonable starting state", and name it "Educate Thyself".

--Adam

**quantize** (2008-09-24):

A friend of mine who does hardcore techstep told me using compression makes tunes louder...is this true???

:-P