NAMM Update: BBE has announced the Opto Stomp, the optical compressor found in its B-Max bass preamp in a foot pedal format. The pedal offers a ‘soft knee’ design along with control of dynamics and a very musical compression reminiscent of the classic designs of the best vintage optical-element compressors of the 50’s and 60’s,… Read More NAMM: BBE Intros Opto-Stomp
Sonoma Wire Works has released a collection of seven new effects available in one convenient VST plug-in called Sonoma 7 VST. Included are effects like auto-wah, multiband compression, modulation, delay, reverb, and parametric EQ. By combining all seven effects into one plug-in, musicians get convenient access to multi-effect presets, and the ability to instantiate more… Read More Sonoma Wire Works Releases 7 New Effects for VST Hosts
Elemental Audio Systems has introduced Neodynium, a compressor and dynamics processing plug-in. Neodynium employs sophisticated processing techniques to deliver the topnotch sound quality audio professionals demand. Neodynium introduces a visual approach to compression that supplies invaluable information for optimizing and directing compression efforts and ensuring effective compressor use. Neodynium has a retail price of $159… Read More Elemental Audio Systems Adds Neodynium Compressor
Voxengo has released an updated version of Crunchessor, a general-purpose track compressor in PC VST plug-in format. The newer version introduces a set of new ‘Crisp’ compression modes which give a substantially different compression sound overall meaning that now you have an additional interesting sound treatment option at your disposal. Beside the newer compression modes,… Read More Voxengo Updates Crunchessor Compressor
Pro Tones has announced the Kompressor, born of legendary design with modern improvements in tone, usability and reliability. The Kompressor has all of the qualities found in the compressors of the seventies. It adds a rich thickness to your tone, reminiscent of vintage sounds, while still maintaining a timeless rock n roll vibe. Features: Bright… Read More Pro Tones Kompressor Crushes Mixes
Voxengo has introduced Crunchessor, a general-purpose track compressor in PC VST plug-in format. Crunchessor offers ease of tuning, which at the same time instantly delivers an excellent sonic performance, and valve-type processing, which is applied in parallel to compression. This makes Crunchessor ideal for musicians and producers who are fond of analog compression sound and… Read More Voxengo Introduces Crunchessor VST Compressor
Wave Arts has released a new dynamics plug in, MultiDynamics, and a bundle of plug-ins, the Power Suite. MultiDynamics is a powerful multi-band dynamics processor useful for mastering, noise reduction, volume maximization, de-essing, and special tweaks. MultiDynamics provides up to 6 bands with independent compression or expansion/gating per band. Up to 6 independent bands Full… Read More Wave Arts Releases Power Suite
dbx Professional Products, a Salt Lake City-based manufacturer of professional signal processing products and a division of Harman International, showed a new compressor/limiter at the recent 2004 Namm Summer show. The Purple Series™ 162SL Compressor/Limiter features dbx’s proprietary AutoVelocity attack and release circuit. The 162SL has been designed to provide contractors uncompromising, state-of-the-art compression and… Read More NAMM – dbx 162SL Compressor/Limiter
Voxengo Elephant version 2.1 is now available. Elephant is a mastering limiter plug-in in PC VST format. Version 2.1 introduces two new limiter modes: AIGC-3 and AIGC-4. These modes deliver clarity of the recently introduced limiter mode EL-2, and the dynamic response of the original AIGC modes, bringing a yet another creative possibility you can… Read More Voxengo Elephant Updated to 2.1
Voxengo Polysquasher, a mastering compressor in PC VST format, has been updated to version 1.3. This update is a maintenance update which fixes various minor issues and makes use of the latest and more stable core development libraries shared between all Voxengo VST plug-ins. Polysquasher’s unique compression technology, which gives an unprecedented compression transparency, allows… Read More Voxengo Polysquasher Updated to 1.3
