409 Opto Compressor

Smooth, musical opto compression.

The 409 brings the natural gain reduction of analogue optical compressors into your DAW. Use it for gentle, transparent levelling, or push it into firm, deep-cutting limiting. Drums, vocals, bass or the whole mix: it stays musical.

Like our 925 Compressor, the 409 is built with physical modelling. It recreates how a classic optical element reacts to your signal, then adds the controls a hardware opto never had.

Why the 409

• Opto character, modelled: smooth, program-dependent compression with a feedback compressor/limiter design
• Shape the detector: Damping smooths the detector response, Skew fine-tunes it
• A Ratio you can tune: a continuous dial instead of fixed steps, so you set the slope exactly
• Wide timing range: Attack up to 200 ms, Release up to 787 ms

Controls

• Main: Attack, Release and Ratio for fast, precise setup
• Extra panel: Sidechain filter and monitor, Dry/Wet mix, Peak/RMS detection, Stereo Link, Lookahead, Damping and Skew

“The 409… is just, WOW! Drums, vocals, bass, or an entire mix. This new compressor is my new all-rounder, from loose creamy compression to tight and precise with the extended damping, side-chain filtering, skew, detection algos and look-ahead features. Amazing!”

Ashley Smith
Mix Engineer / Producer (Brad Whitford of Aerosmith, Derek St. Holmes, various artists)

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