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As its name implies, Vocal Compressor is a dynamics processing plug-in that offers three stages of compression. Its key focus is on providing a balanced output that sits well in a mix, and W.A. Production has supplied some auxiliary features such as a colour saturator to do so. Vocal Compressor’s three curated compressors each play […]
Price £650 Contact Warm Audio/Nova Distribution The Warm Audio Bus-Comp is an all-analogue, two-channel, stereo VCA bus compressor based on classic circuitry that has provided a silky smooth tone for decades now. That description comes from the company’s own product manual. What they don’t mention is that the classic circuitry in question is based upon […]
Price £180 Contact Leapwing Audio DynOne is a 5-band compressor/expander that can be run in standard or parallel modes, with a high-quality sound that has seen it gain praise from engineers Dave Pensado and Bob Katz. This latest update features significant improvements that make it more flexible and easier to use. While the DynOne’s meticulously […]
Price £1,194 Contact AMS Neve Following the well-received UAD plug-in emulation, the AMS Neve RMX16 is now available as a 500 Series hardware unit. Launched in 1982, Advanced Music Systems’ RMX16 was the first-ever microprocessor-controlled digital reverberation unit. Back in the days when the singles charts were dominated by synth-pop bands such as Depeche Mode, […]
NAMM 2020: Warm Audio has revealed the BUS-COMP, a two-channel stereo VCA compressor with an all-analogue signal path. SSL-style VCA bus compressors, such as Warm’s latest offering, are renowned for their ability to control group and stereo master dynamics while adding depth and tone. Warm Audio’s BUS-COMP strays from tradition, by putting switchable USA-made Cinemag […]
WINNER: Black Lion Audio Seventeen When it comes to classic studio outboard like 1176, there have been plenty of remakes and clones over recent years. This versatile solid-state compressor/limiters can be used for everything from unobtrusive levelling of vocals and bass to dramatic dynamic compression. Black Lion Audio’s Seventeen is in no way a clone […]
In celebration of building its 10,000th Cali76 Compact Deluxe, Origin Effects has announced limited reissues of the original full-sized Cali76-TX and TX-L compressor pedals. The two larger originals feature the same compression technology as the Cali76 Compact Deluxe, with the TX version sporting a custom-wound iron core transformer designed to subtly saturate and add extra […]
Leapwing Audio’s DynOne 3 has received a major upgrade that completely redesigns the multiband parallel compressor from the ground up. Featuring newly developed algorithms and filters, Leapwing Audio’s mission is to offer high quality, state-of-the-art processing. Multiband parallel processing is useful in any genre of music where low-level subtleties get lost in the mix. “DynOne […]
Roland Cloud has updated its SRX catalogue with three brand new software models – the SRX Electric Piano, SRX Strings and SRX Brass. The models are created in the spirit of the professional SRX expansion modules that could be used to get higher quality sounds from existing synths, workstations and sound modules. However, according to […]
Price $29 Contact Baby Audio Parallel compression, or the ‘New York style’, has become a widely used practice, and has found favour with many. Numerous plugin compressors offer parallel functionality via Mix or separate Wet/Dry controls, but as anyone who has mixed into compression will know, the type of compressor you select presents a whole […]