Comp VCA-65

On the bench it behaves like a clean tool, scoring 8.5/10 on staying flat, low distortion, low noise, and steady behavior at any level. It gives your sound a mild tone tilt of up to ±2.7 dB across the range — enough to hear on bright or dark material. It adds almost none of its own edge (at or below 0.000%), so it keeps the sound clean. Its own background hiss is below what the bench can even measure, so it adds no noise you would hear. It treats quiet and loud the same (within -149 dB), so it behaves identically however hard you push it. It delays the audio by 272 samples (5.7 ms at 48 kHz) and reports that delay, so your DAW lines it back up.

Measured score 8.5/10 — flatness, low THD, low noise and linearity, evenly weighted toward a clean pass-through. How scoring works.

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