Whats your all-purpose/secret sauce compressor plugin?

[chroma]

If I just ‘need a compressor’ on a track, it tends to be ik black76; it may not be the best on everything but it generally does something good and I don’t have to think about it.

Though often I’ll put a dynamic eq (melda mdynamiceq does the job) instead depending on why I thought I wanted/needed a compressor.

Or both (dynamic eq->comp).

[NinjaToon]

PSP Twin L. It's the bees knees.

Sonimus Tuco also gets forgotten by most I think. It just works. You probably own it. You should use it more.

[Tchad Froom]

PSP Twin L. It's the bees knees.

Curious where you feel Twin L shines. More detail please~

[NinjaToon]

PSP Twin L. It's the bees knees.

Curious where you feel Twin L shines. More detail please~

I really like the character of the soft knee in Twin l, holds the bottom together doesn't get too bright on a drum bus for example, 3 plus db of reduction can get a bit splatty on other comps on a bus but TL stays soft. It's good on everything too IMO.

I'm not sure if it's underrated or that it just never got any attention. I think people who use it love it but it just doesn't have a large user base. People probably think "I don't need it, vintage style limiter, nah", which is fine they probably don't but it can do a ton of work at low cpu, no latency. Definitely one of my favorites anyway.

[gentleclockdivider]

Logic Pro Compressor blows everything else out of the water.
Just sayin'...

Except dc8c and trackcomp 2
Honourable mention for fircomp2 for being the most transparent .

[jamcat]

PSP Twin L. It's the bees knees.

But are they hard knees or soft knees?

[melomood]

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Was it ever in question that Kotelnikov is awesome?
It's not light on the CPU though - like pretty much everything from TDR

TBH I haven't paid attention to what others think of it. I just knew I liked it and there is sometimes a general attitude towards freeware around here,so maybe it wouldn't be taken as seriously as some big name/price tag mentions

[himalaya]

All purpose: Uhe Presswerk and Cytomic The Glue. That's all I need really.

[pascual]

Ozone 9 is hardly a compressor
If we’re playing dirty then Voxengo premium bundle (everything) for less beats izotope for every penny twice

Voxengo looks so bad.

Jejeje

Yep. Everything they do looks like windows 95. horrible.

[crickey13]

Voxengo GUIs are wonderful to work with and are not distracting as opposed to some "vintage analog" GUIs.

[Agreed]

I think Voxengo has extremely functional GUIs personally, if not especially shiny they certainly do the job efficiently.

[Ploki]

Jejeje

Yep. Everything they do looks like windows 95. horrible.

voxengo makes tools for professionals, not toys for #instagramproducer wannabes

[eytanmich123]

Voxengo GUIs are wonderful to work with and are not distracting as opposed to some "vintage analog" GUIs.

+1000 !

[eytanmich123]

All purpose: FIRcomp (it's not a secret anymore but it does make up for some very tasty sauce)

[pascual]

Jejeje

Yep. Everything they do looks like windows 95. horrible.

voxengo makes tools for professionals, not toys for #instagramproducer wannabes

I can see your point and respect that their tools are pro and well made.
Still, I’m no young insta-poser here, yet I am sensitive to aesthetics in almost everything in life.