Compressors

We check out TK’s latest intriguing interpretation of the humble VCA compressor.

If you’re into analogue processing but worried about your carbon footprint, Tierra have you covered!

We check out a modern take on Manley’s classic valve compressor.

These audio examples accompany the review of Black Lion Audio’s Bluey FET compressor in SOS June 2020

Black Lion's Bluey recreates an 1176 that has made more hits than most!

Manley's well-liked optical compressor gets a makeover in time for its 30th birthday!

Based on a classic design and bursting with transformers, the Successor from Heritage Audio combines a vintage sound with serious flexibility.

This clever design rethinks many aspects of compressors that we've long taken for granted.

We take a look at the first in a new, more affordable range of products from BAE.

We put BLA’s feature-rich and keenly priced 1176-style compressor to the test.

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

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

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

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...

The inherent non-linearities and distortions of analogue equipment are sometimes sorely missed in this digital age. Empirical Labs offer their new FATSO Jr as a solution.

The new compressor in Focusrite's Platinum Range offers pre-programmed settings for ease of use, whilst still incorporating extensive manual parameter control. Paul White gets to grips with the Penta.