Bus Compressor

Glue effect on your mixes

By IK Multimedia

$99.99($121.99 incl. VAT)
The Bus Compressor is based on the mix bus VCA type compressor of a worldwide known and acknowledged British large format mixing console from the 80's. It was used on practically every hit record and major production from the 80's to present days, so much that its sound has almost become a trademark.
System Requirements
T-RackS is a 64-bit application and requires a 64 bit CPU and Operating System.
Mac® (64-bits)
Minimal: Apple M1 or Intel® Core i5 Processor, 8 GB of RAM, macOS® 10.15 or newer. 9 GB of hard drive space. Requires an OpenGL 2 compatible graphics adapter. Supported Plug-in formats (64-bit): Audio Units, VST 3, AAX.
Windows® (64-bits)
Minimal: Core i5 Processor or equivalent, 8 GB of RAM, Windows 10 (64 bit) or newer. 9 GB of hard drive space. Requires an ASIO compatible sound card. Requires an OpenGL 2 compatible graphics adapter. Supported Plug-in formats (64-bit): VST 3, AAX.
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Bus Compressor $99.99

Glue effect on your mixes

Bus Compressor is a professional audio plug-in from the T-RackS mixing and mastering suite by IK Multimedia. Available as VST, AU, and AAX for Mac and PC.

TECH
About

This compressor was so widely used that it later became a stand-alone rackmount unit, so that it could be used separately from the large format console. This made for even more success; a thing that led to many hardware and software clones trying to emulate it.

This legendary processor has been painstakingly analyzed and measured down to the very single component, compression curve, soft knee behavior and detection circuit; this in order to obtain a dead on reproduction that will impart a cohesiveness to mixes that is often referred to as "glue effect" where every instrument blends nicely with the others, and mixed tracks suddenly start to sound like "music".

Like many of our hardware based modules we've added several nice and handy features not present on the original; in this case we added the "Grit" switch that will reproduce the slightly increased 2nd harmonic distortion of an out of calibration unit, a behavior favored by many engineers for its more characterful sound.

Specs
System Requirements
T-RackS is a 64-bit application and requires a 64 bit CPU and Operating System.
Mac® (64-bits)
Minimal: Apple M1 or Intel® Core i5 Processor, 8 GB of RAM, macOS® 10.15 or newer. 9 GB of hard drive space. Requires an OpenGL 2 compatible graphics adapter. Supported Plug-in formats (64-bit): Audio Units, VST 3, AAX.
Windows® (64-bits)
Minimal: Core i5 Processor or equivalent, 8 GB of RAM, Windows 10 (64 bit) or newer. 9 GB of hard drive space. Requires an ASIO compatible sound card. Requires an OpenGL 2 compatible graphics adapter. Supported Plug-in formats (64-bit): VST 3, AAX.
Internet connection is required for authorization.
*Legal detail
Audio Demos
01 BUS COMP PUMPING ELECTRO MIX Unprocessed --:--
02 BUS COMP PUMPING ELECTRO MIX --:--
03 BUS COMP SLAMMING DRUMS Unprocessed --:--
04 BUS COMP SLAMMING DRUMS --:--
05 BUS COMPRESSOR MIX COMP unprocessed --:--
06 BUS COMPRESSOR MIX COMP --:--

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