TL;DW: BlockParty is like a moderately saturated analog limiter. BlockParty.zip(359k) What do you get when you cross an Airwindows compressor, with OneCornerClip? Pretty much this. Okay, so it wasn’t a very difficult riddle, was it? BlockParty acts like a somewhat distorty limiter. It’s not at all about lookahead (in fact it doesn’t have any) or […]
TL;DW: PurestSquish is an open-sounding compressor with bass bloom. PurestSquish.zip(355K) This time, the video’s enormously long so I’ll be brief: PurestSquish is a compressor, with its own sound. In the video I compare it to Pressure4, Logical4, and SurgeTide, and also show how it can be used in conjunction with SurgeTide (a real ‘sleeper’ plugin […]
TL;DW: ButterComp2 is improved ButterComp with an output control and sound upgrades. ButterComp2 As requested, ButterComp with output gain. And an unexpected bugfix. And a tone upgrade! So here’s what happened: in working on the new ButterComp, I found a mistake. Because of a thing C programming lets you do (assign, in an if statement) […]
TL;DW: Pop is a crazy overcompressor with a very exaggerated sound. Pop Why another compressor? Yes, ‘because they all act and sound a little different’, but what’s the deal with this one in particular? Pop was designed to be overstressed to get an effect like the Allen & Heath mini-limiter used on some 80s Genesis […]
