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Autobot · Post by **Autobot** » Tue May 03, 2016 8:51 am

Last saturday - I sat in a studio and did some mixes for a friend - I discovered Eventide's Omnipressor and was kinda impressed. The compressor-mode has a neat squash-ing, crush-ing sound with a snappy attitude. I do not need the other functions of Omnipressor like gate or expander but the compression hits me. Is there a compressor with a similar sound and functionality? Never stumbled over this and I like it unfortunately it's too pricey for a single compressor and iloked. So is there something? Win x64 free or commercial.

Thanks

e@rs · Post by **e@rs** » Fri May 20, 2016 4:06 pm

Plugin Alliance Elysia Mpressor draws some inspiration from the Omnipressor. It's pricey at $199, but wait for a sale if you like it (I got it for $74). It uses C/R protection.

pheeleep · Post by **pheeleep** » Fri May 20, 2016 4:11 pm

Autobot wrote:Last saturday - I sat in a studio and did some mixes for a friend - I discovered Eventide's Omnipressor and was kinda impressed. The compressor-mode has a neat squash-ing, crush-ing sound with a snappy attitude. I do not need the other functions of Omnipressor like gate or expander but the compression hits me. Is there a compressor with a similar sound and functionality? Never stumbled over this and I like it unfortunately it's too pricey for a single compressor and iloked. So is there something? Win x64 free or commercial.

Thanks

Did you get the Eventide UltraChannel plugin for free a while back by any chance? You can get it for cheap otherwise. It pops up in the Market place. It has the Omnipressor in it (minus a couple of features that are only available in the full version). I use it sometimes (turning off everything else in the Channel Strip). Sidechain doesn't work for me in FL Studio but everything else does. You get Threshold, Ratio, Attack, Release, Gain and Bass Cut settings.

e@rs · Post by **e@rs** » Fri May 20, 2016 5:09 pm

Totally forgot about UltraChannel... But it's 4 times more CPU intensive than Omnipressor on my system. Enabling only the O-Pressor module doesn't make a change either...

pheeleep · Post by **pheeleep** » Fri May 20, 2016 5:35 pm

e@rs wrote:Totally forgot about UltraChannel... But it's 4 times more CPU intensive than Omnipressor on my system. Enabling only the O-Pressor module doesn't make a change either...

Compromises

Need to bounce down I suppose, as a work around..

budweiser · Post by **budweiser** » Fri May 20, 2016 5:39 pm

Autobot wrote:I do not need the other functions of Omnipressor like gate or expander but the compression hits me.
Thanks

Believe me you need all the functions

! Once you get used to it, it's the most versatile comp one can get. For the harder side, the only other one that comes to mind is the softube valley people dynamite.

lolilol1975 · Post by **lolilol1975** » Mon May 23, 2016 5:52 am

That kind of question pops up every other week here, and there are some answers on other threads.

As for functionality, u-he PressWerk, ToneBooster BusCompressor, FabFilter, DMG Audio Compassion, Klanghelm DD8C are all known to have a large set of functionalities. I believe none are iLoked.

TB and Klanghelm are cheap.

e@rs · Post by **e@rs** » Mon May 23, 2016 1:06 pm

Soundwise, FabFilter Pro-C 2 (very transparent) is nothing like the Omnipressor. Also I couldn't get the same madness out of Presswerk. Can't talk about the others.

Autobot · Post by **Autobot** » Mon May 23, 2016 11:10 pm

lolilol1975 wrote:That kind of question pops up every other week here, and there are some answers on other threads.

As for functionality, u-he PressWerk, ToneBooster BusCompressor, FabFilter, DMG Audio Compassion, Klanghelm DD8C are all known to have a large set of functionalities. I believe none are iLoked.

TB and Klanghelm are cheap.

I don't think that this kind of question pops up every other week. It's very specific and I don't think that any of the comps you mentioned could replace Omnipressor.

simon.a.billington · Post by **simon.a.billington** » Wed May 25, 2016 9:40 am

Oh I quire like the mPressor. I don't think it will quite get you the same sound, but it can add its own brutal vibe if required.

MogwaiBoy · Post by **MogwaiBoy** » Mon Nov 21, 2016 8:57 pm

Thread dig. This is around $40 at the moment - worth it?

I have clean (Pro-C2) and I'm looking for attitude and harmonics. Seems to fit the bill.

Robert Randolph · Post by **Robert Randolph** » Mon Nov 21, 2016 10:00 pm

MogwaiBoy wrote:Thread dig. This is around $40 at the moment - worth it?

I have clean (Pro-C2) and I'm looking for attitude and harmonics. Seems to fit the bill.

Attitude... yeah kinda. There's so many other plug-ins out there that you could get more 'attitude' out of IMO. Disto, Decapitator, any 'brit channel' emulation, presswork fully non-lin + ff, etc..

Harmonics, not so much.

It's still a super cool plug-in though, and rather unique.

MogwaiBoy · Post by **MogwaiBoy** » Mon Nov 21, 2016 10:08 pm

Catching some of the Harmony Central vids on Youtube that just run a loop through a bunch pf presets and I'm very impressed. The expansion side does cool pumping things to drum buses, emphasising the inbetween stuff (hihats) - and the hard gating can be pretty creative. I can think of all kinds of uses for this. Might go for it : )

medienhexer · Post by **medienhexer** » Mon Nov 21, 2016 10:26 pm

Snappy, crushing... I'd say a dbx 160 emulation could work that way. E.g.
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/p ... ts/vc-160/

BUT

The two compressors I`ve tried recently which maintained signal integrity whilst compressing the living bazoo out of a signal were the Opticom https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/prod ... xla-3.html
and the Vulf Compressor https://goodhertz.co/vulf-comp

I have and have tested a lot of compressors, but those two did something unique to the signal which would actually improve it. The Vulf Compressor os MacOS only for now, but they're working on porting everything to Windows.

Robert Randolph · Post by **Robert Randolph** » Mon Nov 21, 2016 10:33 pm

medienhexer wrote:Snappy, crushing... I'd say a dbx 160 emulation could work that way. E.g.
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/p ... ts/vc-160/

BUT

The two compressors I`ve tried recently which maintained signal integrity whilst compressing the living bazoo out of a signal were the Opticom https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/prod ... xla-3.html
and the Vulf Compressor https://goodhertz.co/vulf-comp

I have and have tested a lot of compressors, but those two did something unique to the signal which would actually improve it. The Vulf Compressor os MacOS only for now, but they're working on porting everything to Windows.

Vulf is definitely one of the kings of 'attitude' when it comes to compressor plug-ins.

Eventide Omnipressor alternatives?