LSR Audio has released the VLB525, an emulation of the classic 525 FET hardware compressor that first appeared in the early '70s. It's since become something of an industry standard, and is used ...

Regular compression can be hard enough to get your head around, so you'd be forgiven for struggling to master its more complex counterpart, multiband compression. Multiband compressors split the ...

The SSL LMC-1 plug-in features fixed attack and release levels and controls for compression level. Solid State Logic has announced the availability of a free software plug-in that replicates a ...

As a special Valentine's gift, Universal Audio is giving away a free version of its classic 1176 peak limiter/compressor plugin. We have all the details here on how to get it and use it in your mixes!

In a world of compressor plugins, finding the right tool for more modern sensibilities is getting trickier. That's not just down to the variety of compressors available which can be confusing, but the ...

Solid State Logic announces the launch of its new SSL autoSeries plug-ins, combining SSL’s best-in-class 4000 E modeling with ...

In the conclusion of our series on audio compression, we cover Maximization and list free compressor resources. By Shawn Skead. We've gone over quite a bit of detail in the last three articles on ...

An audio compressor is one of the most important parts of sound design and mixing, but it is also one of the most misunderstood and mis-used. Here Tim Dunphy unravels the mysteries surrounding the ...