Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor Compressor by Universal Audio, a faithful reproduction of EL8 Distressor, is now 80% off for $39 at the lowest price ever.

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Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor Compressor by Universal Audio, a faithful reproduction of  EL8 Distressor, is now 80% off for $39 at the lowest price ever.


  


The Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor is respected in studios worldwide as a modern "essential" compressor. A versatile Distressor with a rich color palette, it carries on the legacy of legendary compressors like the UA 1176 and Teletronix LA-2A, offering a modern tool that combines practicality and creativity, heard on thousands of hit records.

Shape with the only end-to-end distresser emulation.

The EL8 Distressor Compressor plugin delivers all the features and tones of the original hardware. Compare other Distressor emulations yourself, and compare them to the original hardware's ultra-fast attack time to quickly hear where most plugins fail and where the real UAD Distressor succeeds.


Find the Perfect Compression Ratio

At the heart of Distressor lies its incredible compression variations—1:1, 2:1, 3:1, 4:1, 6:1, 10:1, 20:1, and Nuke—each offering a unique sound. Using a 1:1 ratio allows you to gently warm up synths and strings without compression, while adding harmonics to your music. Conversely, the Nuke setting delivers explosive excitement to room mics or the entire mix.


Add Color with Distortion Modes

Distressor's iconic Dist 2 and Dist 3 modes offer a wide palette of compression textures, allowing you to shape your source by combining even-order or even/odd-order harmonic distortion, from subtle thickness to glossy tape and fully saturated.

Powerful Sidechain Control for Enhanced Focus Dynamics


Distressor's sidechain control eliminates unwanted low-frequency pumping, making it ideal for processing drum buses. Meanwhile, Band Emphasis tames harsh vocals and jarring "power zone" instrument peaks. You can also easily perform parallel compression on mix buses or instrument groups using "plugin-only" features such as dry/wet mix.

Features
Track and mix using the only authentic emulation of the EL8 Distressor, the world's most popular and modern compressor.

Shape your guitars, drums, and vocals to their limits with virtually limitless gain reduction variations.
Utilize plugin-only features such as dry/wet parallel processing and user-customizable operating headroom levels.
Creatively enhance your instruments and vocals with the famous "Dist 2" and "Dist 3" modes.
Use custom detector filtering to embellish, enhance, or destroy bass, synths, and room microphones.
Mix with presets from Joe Chiccarelli (The Strokes), Vance Powell (Jack White), Jacquire King (Kings of Leon), Jimmy Douglass (The Rolling Stones), and more.

Until 25th May.


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