Drawmer 1978

If you are a beginner, it’s much more worth for you learning everything you can about compression and all it’s possible applications before you even buy a plug-in, imagine a real compressor. This thing is not a guitar pedal, don’t expect to turn a knob until you get the sound you like. It’s very versatile, which makes it hard to tune. But if you care a lot about having the highest audio quality possible (I mean without selling your livers) on a stereo recording setup and you are already experienced on compression, then you will absolutely love this. I use it as part of my stereo golden channel (I have a ProArt MPA tube stereo pre) and it just sounds awesome. I also use it as external gear to replace software compressors every time I can. It’s got a tone shaping circuit which is very useful to get the raw tracks as good as possible before even eqing them in the DAW. But my favourite thing about this has to be the saturation feature. I use it almost everywhere, it’s like your favourite secret ingredient. It just makes every sound much richer in harmonic content. I have had this for months now and I used it even as a mastering compressor and I am always amazed by the improvements it makes. If you are a studio nerd and you want to bring compression to a next level, you will absolutely love to have this in your gear instead of another guitar.