Bus Compressor

On the bench it behaves like a clean tool, scoring 6.9/10 on staying flat, low distortion, low noise, and steady behavior at any level. It gives your sound a mild tone tilt of up to ±2.1 dB across the range — enough to hear on bright or dark material. It stays clean on most material — it adds at most 0.108% of its own harmonics. Its own background hiss is below what the bench can even measure, so it adds no noise you would hear. What it does shifts with level (a -22 dB gap between levels), so it does not behave the same at every input level. It delays the audio by 34 samples (0.7 ms at 48 kHz) and reports that delay, so your DAW lines it back up.

Measured score 6.9/10 — flatness, low THD, low noise and linearity, evenly weighted toward a clean pass-through. How scoring works.

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