Compressors

Magma offers a one‑stop shop for analogue‑style attitude and warmth.

Designed from the ground up for processing multi‑channel Atmos sources, Spherix boasts some innovative and useful features.

VoxDucker aims to make the ducking process more intuitive, so that podcasters and the like can get consistently good results.

Sonible have packed even more ‘smarts’ into their second‑generation AI‑driven compressor.

Slate have taken the famous OTT effect and added a whole load more control, creating a unique dynamics processor.

A four‑band side‑chain EQ is just one of many nice touches in this new take on an analogue classic.

At heart, it models the same hardware as Slate’s FG‑2A, but Custom Opto’s tweaks make it useful on so many more sources!

Baby Audio offer an intriguing take on frequency‑conscious dynamics processing.

Think you’ve heard everything a compressor can do? It might be time to think again...

Created in partnership with Empirical Labs, these two emulations form a characterful yet capable channel strip.

Dragon Fire makes setting up frequency‑conscious compression very intuitive, courtesy of an on‑screen curve its makers call the Push Pull Graph.

The world’s not short of LA‑2A plug‑ins, but some are more convincing than others...

FAST Reveal is designed to make it easy to tackle masking problems in your mix.

Will Waves' plug-in emulation of the Abbey Road RS124, which was based on a much modified Altec 436B valve compressor, find favour with today's engineers and producers?

This “punchy hybrid compressor” draws its inspiration from both the classic API and SSL hardware designs.

We check out Korneff’s vibey take on a tube‑laden FET compressor.

This characterful compressor offers a little more control than most ‘vibe machines’.

Though there’s only one main user control, VocalMint's audio path comprises a serial chain of three different types of compressor, and multiple behind‑the‑scenes parameters have been optimised specifically for vocal processing.

Unisum boasts a unique array of advanced parameters, but achieving good results isn't as daunting as you might think.

These two plug‑ins bring you the spirit of their 'unobtainium' hardware counterparts!

SSL's famous listen-mic compressor just got more tweakable.