Compressors / measured
Arturia · VST3
Tonal shaping
±1.49 dB
moderate · character, by design
Harmonic character
0.029%
minimal · character, by design
Noise
10.0/10
< floor · scored
Level dependence
-116 dB
minimal · character, by design
Latency
32 smp
factual · not scored
Output level vs. frequency.
It shapes your tone by up to ±1.5 dB on purpose — that built-in curve is part of its sound.
─ THD ┄ THD+N. THD is the trustworthy figure; THD+N is method-floor-limited at low levels.
It adds a little harmonic color (0.03% at full level) — a gentle warming.
Its own background hiss is below what the bench can even measure, so it adds no noise you would hear.
How hard you push it changes what it does (a -116 dB gap between levels) — expected for a saturator, which reacts to input level.
It delays the audio by 32 samples (0.7 ms at 48 kHz) and reports that delay, so your DAW lines it back up.
On the bench it behaves like a coloring tool, scoring 10.0/10 on how clean its signal path is; its tone-shaping and harmonics are reported as character, not graded as faults. It shapes your tone by up to ±1.5 dB on purpose — that built-in curve is part of its sound. It adds a little harmonic color (0.03% at full level) — a gentle warming. Its own background hiss is below what the bench can even measure, so it adds no noise you would hear. How hard you push it changes what it does (a -116 dB gap between levels) — expected for a saturator, which reacts to input level. It delays the audio by 32 samples (0.7 ms at 48 kHz) and reports that delay, so your DAW lines it back up.
Measured score 10.0/10 — signal-path noise floor (the shaping and harmonics are the design's intent, shown as character, not graded). How scoring works.
A review score is shown only when at least two independent sources — published reviews or genuine user discussion — return usable text. Launch or announcement coverage alone does not qualify, so some plugins read N/A here while still carrying a full measured score above.
| Plugin | Measured /10 | Mag dev | Max THD | Latency | Noise | Review /10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4030 Retro Comp | 9.1 | ±1.4 dB | 0.003% | 0 smp | <floor | 7.8 |
| 6030 Ultimate Comp | 8.4 | ±0.6 dB | 0.002% | 0 smp | <floor | 9.0 |
| 6060 Ultimate MC | 9.5 | ±0.9 dB | 0.000% | 0 smp | <floor | N/A |
| Bettermaker Mastering Compressor | 9.3 | ±0.0 dB | 0.045% | 0 smp | −105 | N/A |
| Black 76 | 10.0 | ±5.6 dB | 1.086% | 34 smp | <floor | 8.5 |
| Bus Compressor | 6.9 | ±2.1 dB | 0.108% | 34 smp | <floor | N/A |
| Comp DIODE-609 | 9.0 | ±0.4 dB | 0.203% | 32 smp | −110 | 8.0 |
| Comp FET-76 | 10.0 | ±3.0 dB | 0.000% | 272 smp | <floor | 8.5 |
| Comp TUBE-STA | 10.0 | ±1.5 dB | 0.029% | 32 smp | <floor | 8.2 |
| Comp VCA-65 | 8.5 | ±2.7 dB | 0.000% | 272 smp | <floor | 7.8 |
| CompressorBank CB303 | 9.8 | ±0.0 dB | 0.011% | 0 smp | <floor | 8.4 |
| Comprexxor | 10.0 | ±6.5 dB | 0.140% | 72 smp | <floor | 8.2 |
| CORE Comp | 10.0 | ±0.1 dB | 18.693% | 0 smp | <floor | N/A |
| Devil-Loc Deluxe | 10.0 | ±6.8 dB | 3.526% | 63 smp | <floor | 8.3 |
| Dyna-Mu | 10.0 | ±1.7 dB | 0.715% | 34 smp | <floor | 8.3 |
| VC-670 | 10.0 | ±1.5 dB | 0.270% | 3 smp | <floor | 7.9 |
| White 2A | 10.0 | ±8.6 dB | 0.906% | 3 smp | <floor | 8.3 |
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