UAD API 2500 Bus Compressor

An obsessively accurate emulation of API's flagship compressor.

The API 2500 Bus Compressor is a permanent fixture on the stereo bus of many of the world's top engineers and producers. Considered the best of the Paul Wolff-era API circuit designs, this famed compressor adds energy, movement, and tone to stereo mixes and subgroups unlike any other compressor.

The API 2500 Bus Compressor plug-in for UAD-2 hardware and Spark is a spot-on emulation of this classic compressor, capturing its all-discrete signal path with Thrust circuitry — and features a fanatically detailed modeling of API's custom transformers and 2510 and 2520 op amps:

• Glue together your stereo mixes and subgroups with the world's finest circuit emulation of the iconic API 2500 compressor.
• Select between "Old" and "New" compression, with feedback or feed-forward sounds.
• Sharpen your workflow with plug‑in‑only Mix and Headroom controls.
• Punch up low frequencies with API's patented Thrust technology.
• Contour your mix's stereo interaction with percent-based L/R Link controls.
• Mix with artist presets from Jeff Balding (Faith Hill), Vance Powell (Jack White), Ryan Hewitt (Red Hot Chili Peppers), and more.

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