Compressors

Dave Hill, the audio electronics designer and founder of Crane Song and Dave Hill Designs, has sadly passed away aged 68.

Antares' latest processor promises to make finding the optimum vocal compression settings quicker and easier than ever. 

A number of fixes and improvements have been made to MDW's Dynamic Range Controller plug-in, along with the release of a new User Guide and presets created by George Massenburg. 

Arturia's Winter Sale is now live, with savings of 50% available across their range of individual software instruments, effects, and preset packs.

A selection of Universal Audio's renowned plug-ins are now available to purchase individually, or as part of three new bundles, without the need for any UA hardware. 

This 500-series module offers the same signal path as the Bluey rackmount compressor in a fraction of the space. 

Waves' latest channel strip promises to accurately recreate the circuit behaviour of carefully selected vintage valve-based hardware.

Softube's latest plug-in bundle offers authentic recreations of three legendary analogue compressors. 

The updated version of the VTC allows the device to be used as a saturation effect with the compressor section bypassed, and introduces some enhancements to the unit's circuitry. 

Sound Skulptor's MU524 500-series module promises to deliver the characterful sound of a vintage compressor at a surprisingly affordable price point.

FireMaximizer combines a clipper and saturator with two limiter modes, and allows users to blend continuously between them using an X/Y pad. 

Acustica Audio's latest channel strip plug-in offers a combination of saturation, EQ, and compression, and allows users to combine sections to provide dynamic EQ facilities. 

McDSP have announced that all new APB-16 units will now come equipped with a USB-C connector and support for Thunderbolt 3 and Thunderbolt 4 ports on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.

Frap Audio's first release offers a mono compressor and expander with some useful side-chain functionality in a double-width 500-series module.

Acustica Audio have released Arctic, a free mix bus processing plug-in which combines compression, limiting and saturation.

Sonible's latest plug-in aims to provide users with a quick and simple way to apply limiting to their source material, whilst removing the complication of adjusting multiple parameters.

Gainlab Audio have released Dictator Graphite, a limited edition version of their stereo valve compressor.

Gainlab Audio's latest device couples a valve microphone preamp with an optical compressor that features an interesting "double slope" design. 

The Focusrite Group have announced that they have acquired Oxfordshire-based plug-in developers, Sonnox. 

Universal Audio have extended their offer on UAD Spark subscriptions, with new users able to purchase three months of the service for 99¢.

T-Compressor M is an expanded version of Techivation's T-Compressor plug-in, and is only being sold until the end of December 2022.