The Black 76 Limiting Amplifier is modeled after what is probably the most used, most known and most universally recognized compressor/limiter in the audio industry. There are probably no professionally recorded tracks where this unit wasn't used. It's a true legend and a piece of music production history.
The engineers that made this FET based compressor reached a level of cleverness and magic that only true visionary geniuses can achieve. While there are many revisions of this hardware, we modeled the LN version, revision E, because it's the one that has the most sonically recognized and sought after character thanks to its input transformer and class A output stage.
...SSL Master, VSC2 and Townhouse - again each sounds different from the other. For 1176 type there's Stillwell Rocket and Black 76 from IKMM. For clean I have Millenia TCL 2, elysia Alpha and mpressor. For vari-mu I have Iron. Then there's the Lindell 354 - killer on the drum bus. Oh yeah almost...
...Saturn 2 Focusrite: FAST Balancer Fuse Audio: Bucket-500, RS-W2395C, VPre-2C, VPre-72, VRev-666 IK Multimedia: AmpliTube 5 CS + All Expansions, ARC 3, MixBox, Black 76, Brickwall Limiter, British Channel Bus Comp, Classic Clipper, Classic Comp, Classic EQ, Classic Multi Band Limiter, Comprexxor, CSR Hall, CSR Inverse, CSR Plate, CSR Room, De Esser, Dyna-Mu, EQ-73, EQ-81, EQ-PA, EQ-PB,...
I guess it's interesting. I personally use "vintage" compressors mainly as a tone box on the insert track or on an aux with other processors before or after it. If I have to handle a particularly complicated dynamic I prefer to work with a precise compressor without coloration and especially with a full set of eq...
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