
Bus – Especially great for bus processing, or for adding a pleasant glue to your drums, mixes or tracks.Mastering – Designed to be as transparent as possible, introducing as little harmonic distortion as possible, while still being able to catch those fast transients.It works with automatic knee and ratio settings, so compressing your lead vocal is as easy as choosing the right threshold.
Vocal – A very effective algorithm to bring vocals to the front of your mix.
Opto – A relatively slow, very soft knee, more linear opto style. Classic – A vintage, feedback, very program-dependent style. Clean – An all-around, low distortion, feed-forward, program dependent style. It offers eight different program-dependent compression styles, each with their own unique sound and character: While many compressors on this list offer a unique feature works particularly well in specific situations, Pro-C 2 is well known for its versatility in any situation. FabFilter Pro-C 2įabFilter is a plugin manufacturer based in Amsterdam, who have been making mixing and mastering tools, creative effects and synthesizer plugins since 2002. But why do we care which plugin best captures the sound of a 50-year-old compressor? Surely there must be new compressor plugins with innovative designs? We recently published an article titled 7 Compressor Plugins Modeled After Analog Gear, in which we covered the most popular compressor emulation plugins.