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Hardware processing on your master bus can transform your sound completely, we look at some of the best stereo compressors under $2000.
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The SSL bus compressor is one of the most sought-after audio tools ever designed! We check out the different formats currently available.
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We check out the new Auto-Tune Vocal Compressor plug-in from Antares, designed to be your go-to tool for vocal dynamics processing.
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Live now on Indiegogo The Godfather offers 4 modular style audio channels with dynamics, filtering, effects and modulation in a tidy-looking 60HP unit
Mixland Rubber Band compressor v2 turns the original proof-of-concept into a full-fledged dynamics and saturation plug-in.
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Walrus Audio Badwater a complete bass solution in a pedal? For their first dedicated bass effect it packs in some great features for bass players
Juicer is meant to give your audio tracks, especially transient-heavy ones like drums and vocals, a fatter and wider sound with attitude.
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Explode your Eurorack with this audio squashing combo of the Messor Stereo Compressor and Peradam Side-Chained Distortion - things are going to get huge!
Baby Audio's TAIP uses artificial intelligence instead of standard DSP to eek out the subtle nuances of analog circuits. Is TAIP worth a spin?
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SSL has announced the Fusion series plug-ins. The series kicks off with the SSL Fusion Vintage Drive and Fusion Stereo Image plug-ins modeled after analog hardware.
Maji works like a kind of transformer that is "pushed" beyond its natural limit to generate analog compression and saturation. In a plug-in!
United Plugins Urban Puncher adds punch and fatness to your drums and loops with just a few simple controls. Are you ready to hit the Destroy button?
Black Salt Audio's Low Control and Escalator plug-ins are meant to deliver big sounds with few controls - but is the price justified?
Biggifier recreates five effects chains used by producer Jonas Aden in the one-knob format: it's designed to fatten, thicken and creamify your mixes.
Leapwing has teamed up with Al Schmitt to create the Al Schmitt Signature Plugin. Can software bring the engineer's famously natural sound to your DAW?
A compressor that syncs its Attack and Release times to your project tempo - is this the end of fiddling knobs?
Apogee and Bob Clearmountain team up for a channel strip plug-in that brings the essentials without much of a learning curve.
Goliath grows: V2 of Tone Empire's plug-in has 4 types of analog-modeled saturation, a parametric EQ, and a 1176-based FET compressor in one plug-in.
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The new THR30IIA from Yamaha is a 30-watt stereo acoustic guitar amp, with wireless capabilities and a host of useful features that make it the perfect partner for your favourite acoustic guitar.
With a whopping 70 virtual 500-series modules taken straight from IK's various effects and insturment suites, MixBox is a Swiss Army knife of a channel strip.
A plug-in made to deal with your acoustic guitar woes, Quick AG blends compression, EQ, reverb and other FX to quickly touch-up an acoustic performance.
Parallel Aggressor does the old parallel processing trick justice with heavy-handed compression and saturation algorithms on top of some sweet options!
A supercharged vintage-style compressor plug-in with bespoke features requested by hip-hop producer Koen Heldens starts a new chapter for Black Rooster Audio!
Rich is an affordable mastering plug-in that ties together a proprietary progressive tone correction algorithm, stereo widening and saturation. You can get is for as little as a tenner!