Compressors

Retro set their sights on modernising a classic design from the golden age of recording — did they hit their target?

We check out API’s 500-series version of the 2500 bus compressor.

This combination of Pultec-inspired stereo mastering EQ and VCA bus compressor could earn its keep in a wide range of situations.

The latest vintage-styled plug-in from Sonimus is a neat compressor with a vari-mu flavour.

These modules can be mixed and matched to create a versatile, high-quality, Neve-esque channel strip for an impressive price.

You’d be forgiven for thinking the world doesn’t need another expensive vari-mu compressor. But you might just be wrong...

Golden Age Project’s quest to bring classic designs within reach of the masses continues, with this affordable take on the LA-2A.

With dual compressor stages and dual-band, boost-only EQ, the novel Magnum-K shows that high-end outboard needn’t be retro.

Combining aspects of two classics from the golden age of hardware design, this compressor is really rather special.

The CP-1X is no typical guitar compressor pedal. It employs Boss’s proprietary Multi-Dimensional Processing (MDP) technology, which analyses various aspects of the incoming signal in real time and then responds by optimising the digital processing for the source.

This stylish module brings the ‘blue stripe’ revision of the UREI 1176 to the 500 series.

Could this modern take on a classic compressor design be fab for your studio?

iZotope say that Neutron not only has the processing power to address all sorts of mixing issues, but the intelligence to help you identify them.

The Gates Sta-Level broadcast compressor is a classic — but it isn’t cheap. Can Wes Audio give you the same sound for less?

Ted Fletcher's new processor packs four different well-known compression types into a single box.

A compressor and front end combining pedigree Drawmer performance with ease of use.

Although it features a familiar analogue-style control interface, the CLX440 has a digital interior that allows it to offer advantages such as a 'Look Ahead' facility more commonly found in plug-in processors.

What if you could access the sound and controllability of a range of the best-known classic analogue compressors and EQs, from a single rackmount box, in the digital domain? Two advanced processors from Sintefex aim to offer just this ability.

A stereo compressor offering the classic dynamic characteristics that only an optical design can provide.

SPL's new surround-ready stereo compressor offers clever programme-adaptive compression, as well as decompression and tube-saturation functions.

Hugh Robjohns looks at a pedigree mix compressor with a number of rather unusual extra functions up its sleeve...