I agree as well. The DBX does to much pumping of the signal.
Although the ONE BAND DBX seemed to not do as much pumping as the others. Teac use to make an outboard noice reduction device for their machines as well which may have lowered the noise another 5 or 6 db without the pumping affects. If your a tweaker, you can try replacing the resistors and or the caps in the recording board, which is what I did to my Teac and had noticed a definate improvement in lower noise.But this is very time consuming indeed.
Although the ONE BAND DBX seemed to not do as much pumping as the others. Teac use to make an outboard noice reduction device for their machines as well which may have lowered the noise another 5 or 6 db without the pumping affects. If your a tweaker, you can try replacing the resistors and or the caps in the recording board, which is what I did to my Teac and had noticed a definate improvement in lower noise.But this is very time consuming indeed.