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Compressor

Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection

Universal Audio

The Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection is a pair of tube-driven compressor/limiter plugins—the aggressive 660 and full stereo 670—modeled after iconic hardware units from Ocean Way Studios. These plugins deliver the silky warm compression and harmonic coloration heard on classic records by The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and Motown artists, combining tube-driven gain control with transformer sections to add analog glow and character to vocals, drums, and mixes.

Key Features

01Two models: Fairchild 660 and 670 compressors
02Tube-driven gain control and transformer sections
03Wet/Dry Mix control for parallel compression blending
04Sidechain Filter for drum-selective compression
05Headroom (HR) control for threshold and distortion adjustment
06Accurate circuit models based on golden-reference units from Ocean Way Studios

Things to Try

  • 01Use the Sidechain Filter to punch up your drum bus without triggering threshold on the kick drum
  • 02Blend dry and compressed signals with the Mix control to create textural possibilities on drum bus and mix bus applications
  • 03Decrease the Headroom (HR) control for grittier textures on vocals, drums, guitar, and bass
  • 04Increase the Headroom (HR) control to raise the gain reduction threshold and lower distortion for mastering applications
Formats
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