Studio-quality analogue optical compression and it has console-style VU meter LED lights on the front ...

The proposition is compelling enough on paper, but it's also simple to achieve for the compact. Universal Audio – creators of the 1176 compressor – bring their acclaimed plugin emulation of the studio ...

After several weeks of creating test clips and constructing and running batch files, I began looking for compression artifacts. I first searched for pre-echo. I began my examination with Dolby Digital ...

In previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in the real world of physical audio hardware. From the human ear to the ...

UA’s Capitol Mastering compressor is as useful for individual instrument tracks as it is entire mixes, and brings lovely modern touches into a very vintage-sounding and looking aesthetic. Not the ...