Empirical Labs® EL8 Distressor
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Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor Compressor
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F. Ruisch
Fast as a shark !
The Distressor is absolutely amazing, it is the fastest of them all. Perfect to beef up that snare, bass or give a unique effect to the room mics. It's a must have plugin from UAD.
K. Garcia
Solid!
An amazing emulation of the original hardware! UA continues to impress me with everything they're doing right now.
j. elliott
as a distressor owner...
this is by far the best software version i have found. maybe not 100%, but it's behavior/reaction is very similar and it's nice to have access to multiple extra distressors come mix time.
R. Invernizzi
Amazing Tool
I love this Distressor! Very powerful tool. I use this on a lot of kind of tracks and sounds.
I really love it!!!
A. Apolo
10/10
ive got the hardware and did an a/b test with this plugin.. I was blown away! this plugin really sounds and acts like the real hardware! bought it straight away! finally I can have the disstressor rocking several tracks both in mono and stereo at the same time!!
M. Nazir
Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor Compressor
simply says i love it
R. Heaney
Forget IT U Nailed iT!!!
Holy Shit U Nailed iT!!! End oF Story .Buy it and Thank Me!!!
A. Fontaine
very good
very good results in no time.
A. Maiani
Simply essential
Must have, nothing else to say
j. van den berghe
New favourite compressor
Title says it all!
j. alvarado alvarez del castillo
Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor Compressor
Is very good sound , I like it .Highly recommended.
J. Daley
Sounds like the hardware but even better
Working on a mix struggling with a very aggressive vocal this thing is like magic and I have 2 hardware Distressors ! Great !
A. Taccône
Simply fantastic
Great on Bass, Kick drum, Snare, etc etc but I think it's like mayonnaise
"It goes out of everything"
c. morrison
A Must have
Just incredible. Really didn’t want to spend the money but it’s so good. Raised the bar and gets even closer to analog in the box IMHO
P. Kostov
gamechanger!
This is a must-have tool for every mixing engineer! Its working so precise with the audio signal so i can do anything with it. But the thing i love most with this comp is extending the low end of a kick, using it on parallel kickbus. Thanks a lot for making this possible!
-. Trips
UA WINS the DISTRESSOR PLUGIN WAR!
Hands down, of ALL the emulations I have used, from FG-Stress, to Sknote Disto and Disto-S, to Empircals own Arouser, just to name the most recent.. this UA version absolutely takes the cake!
They don't call it "the swiss army knife of compressors" for nothing. And I have literally used this on everything since buying it. The other other similar plugin I am still using is Arouser. But if I was forced to pick a single Distressor emulation and ditch all the others, without a doubt, this would be the one.
E. Budzynski
Brilliant on all sorts of source material
A real swis army knife of compressors. This emulation can recreate all sorts of different compression from opto settings to more subtle light taming. Highly recommended. Plugins with many uses are always useful and this is no exception.
J. Lewis
One of my go-to plugins
If, like me, you are running a lot of UAD plugins on a relatively ordinary computer, you will at some point feel the CPU strain. The legacy versions will help a lot. And you will want to use those to make CPU room for the Distressor, which I find is by far the biggest CPU monster in my UAD system. This is an absolutely must-own plugin for me. It is utterly utterly killer, it is magic, it is bright, it is brutal, and it is colossal in the mix. I am a big fan of the Pultec, Neve EQ and 1176 legacy versions, and by using those legacy versions wisely, I can use my Distressor...even more wisely! This is one for your arsenal, without a moment of hesitation. You might not use it on everything, but you will use it where you should.
B. Gardiner
Ok, but nothing special
Nothing I can't so with other native plug-ins to be honest. It is quick to setup so if you are familiar with the Distressor interface then why not.
Just expect to be stung for a paid upgrade to the brit mod version some time soon!
B. Gardiner
Handy, but not that special
Nothing I can't do with other native plug ins to be honest. but setting up is quick so if the distressor interface is something your used to then why not!
Just wait and you will be stung for a paid brit mod update sometime soon.