

On lead vocals: Please don’t try this at home.Use the Mix knob to add just a small amount of fuzzy saturation. Get the 1176 Classic Limiter Plug-In Collection for UAD and Apollo, featuring three authentic plug-in versions of the most popular compressor ever made. On a bass: Since bass often requires a combination of compression and saturation, Smasher is the ideal tool to get it dirty, letting you control precisely how much grit to add.compressing and heating up your tone, Comp FET-76 is a must-have plugin. Try thickening your snare drum by reaching between -6 and -10dB of gain reduction, then mix a few percent of the resulting huge snare drum sound back into your original dry sound. The original 1176 compressor designed by Bill Putnam Sr. On a snare drum: Add body and sustain to bring out a snare’s tone.You get that signature delayed transient squashing and an explosive sound which instantly propels your drums to the front of the mix.


On a drum buss: Smasher imbues drum mixes with the typical sound of the 1176’s all-buttons-in mode.Smasher can add thickness and grit to any drum or bass track, or completely crush a bus, producing an aggressive sound that’s impossible to achieve with other plugins. Pulsar Audio’s take on the classic Urei 1176 compressor is currently FREE over at Plugin Boutique.
