Empirical Labs® EL8 Distressor
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Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor Compressor
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s. simmonds
Empirical labs
Good as
J. Rubio Almanza
Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor Compressor
Probably one of the best compressors in the worild. I find the sound quality for this pluging simply fantastic. Very useful the posibilities on ratio selection to be very accurate.
G. Nikolay
I Love
My favourite
J. Steffen
Absolutely FANTASTIC!!!
I’ve always heard people rant and rave about these things, but I never had a chance to use one. So I stated the 14 day demo to try it on some vocals for a track I was mixing. I put it on the vocals, set it to “nuke”, adjusted the threshold, attack, and release. Uses the hp filter for the detector section and the hp filter plus setting 2 for the harmonics and wow it simply blew me away on the girls vocals. They really popped out of the mix. And that harmonic setting 2 really helped her consonants come out clearer. After that I tried it on the drum bus and again it was perfect. My go to compressor for vocals and drums has always been the 1176. Not anymore. This thing really is amazing. It is in my opinion the end all be all of compressor for the mix stage. It’s fantastic on EVERYTHING. You simply cannot go wrong purchasing the Distressor. Just buy, you’ll be really happy you did. I’m completely thrilled with it. I think it may be the best purchase I’ve made all year. On a side note the Vertigo VSM-3 on the vocal chain right before the Distressor with some high boost really made her vocals perfectly sit in the mix. Mind completely blown. Those two together are perfect for vocals.
M. Chang
As good as advertised.
Kinda makes me question why I bother owning any other compressor plugins.
P. Ruddy
Really awesome
I've got 2 of them in my studio and get the plug to have more. It's just amazing because I've got more possibilities !!
P. Carper
Excellent emulation, the best I’ve seen.
I’ve used two different distressor replica plugins and this one takes the cake, big time. The sound is clean, thick, and sounds very analog.
J. Moore
Great!
Great on just about everything!!!
g. paillotin
Parfait pour les drums
Ramène un centre bien compacte et estompe les sybilances des frequences tres hautes des cymbales de manière magistrale... Un must-have
g. paillotin
Parfait pour les drums
Ramène un centre bien compacte et estompe les sybilances des frequences tres hautes des cymbales de manière magistrale... Un must-have
S. Smashnov
Cool
The Best comp!!
a. madalin
THE BEST
THE BEST
R. Thomas
Distressor
Nothing like it great piece!
J. Visser
Awesomesauce!! Just brilliant!!
Nothing like a distress or to make things sparkle... but having one for every channel I want... wicked!
.
Fantastico!
Senza questo fantastico plug in non saprei come far lavorare bene i miei drumkit trap!
N. Freeze
Awesome!!!
Real thing in my box!!!!
Excellent for anything from drums to vocals...
D. Bourgiotis
Perfect Compressor
Use it on bass, drums, vox & as a parallel comp. Super fast & super easy to use.
C. Padilla
Must Have Compressor
Very highly recommended. Love the way it can completely transform the sound of a kick/snare AND add a bit of extra thump to a bass or guitar.
M. Nwankoti
great compressor
loving this plugin I use it on Kick, bass and lead vocals!
G. Watson
Producer/Engineer
GREAT PLUG-IN I FEEL LIKE MY SET IS COMPLETE NOW!