UAD Valley People Dyna-mite

Designed in conjunction with Softube, the Dyna-mite limiter/gate/expander plug-in for UAD-2 hardware and Apollo interfaces is a dead-on emulation of this classic — even enigmatic — dynamics processor.

Valley People's roots go back to the 1950s, with the ambitious analog designs of the legendary Paul Buff, who founded the historic PAL studio in southern California. The Dyna-mite was Buff's last design for Valley People, and it's arguably his most famous:

• Crush, craft, and mutilate with one of the most versatile dynamic processors ever created.
• Use the Limit feature to bring out the smack of a drum or make an acoustic guitar more percussive.
• Dial in the Gate function to clamp down signals while leaving transients untouched.
• Use De-ess mode to control harsh consonants and subdue unwanted artifacts from hard compression.

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