HCL Varis

VOLUME VARIES; VARIS.

Features:

• Attack from 0.2ms to 40mS.
• Release from 100mS to 2S.
• Pentode / Triode circuit.
• Vari gain emphasis mode.
• mu-Differential reaction and air circuit.
• Level calibration.
• Added input/output gains.
• Variable sidechain circuit.
• SC dynamic listen mode.
• 16 x oversampling.
• Noise option for intersample modulation.
• Delta mode.

AAX, VST, VST3 and Audio Unit.

Wavegrove x Handcrafted Labs x Tape Over.

HCL Varis is a mastering grade all tube point-to-point design vari-mu compressor. It includes feedback and feed forward modes, dual-mono, mid-side and stereo link operation, independent pentode / triode signal chain, a sidechain circuit, Edcor input transformers and Carnhill output transformers.

Varis can be found in numerous studios around the globe and Gena has done amazing upgrades to the first Varis, which was released over a decade ago.

Varis is a modern classic. Or it should be, and we're not the only ones saying this.

Varis is a versatile and extremely flexible unit that easily covers everything you would ever want a compressor to do. Varis is basically four different compressors all packed together for pure tube action – now inside of your DAW.

There are switches for the Pentode and the Triode tube selection and they play a big role in this unit.

Triode can be described to be more open and tighter, while Pentode is darker and wider.

But when you switch between two compression modes, which are Feed-forward and Feed-Back, it yet again makes a difference between selected modes and impacts the sound and the behaviour of the plugin. FF mode is more complex and exciting, while FB is more predictable in its behaviour. You can blend in different variations between the selected modes and find the right tone for your source material.

PT and TR mode have also different eq-curves that are modeled from the hardware. Tonality and the differencies between the two modes can be heard when compressing at higher levels and they are also injunction with Vari gain.