It’s also a worthy choice in that few other examples of the Red exist in software, with many developers modelling endless remakes of SSL or Urei-like compressors.
The Red’s design is interesting – in essence, a clean and transparent VCA compressor but with some unique and interesting qualities thanks to a transformer on the output section. It’s clear that none of the models is officially endorsed or a licensed software replica (unlike many of UAD and Waves’ plug-ins), but they are clearly based on the sound and operation of three classic hardware compressors, alluded to in all but name.Īrguably the most exciting plug-in to our minds is the FG-RED compressor, which, reading between the lines, is clearly reminiscent of the Focusrite Red compressor. The first three cover the principal models – FG-GREY, FG-RED and FG-MU – while the final plug-in is a hybrid Rack of all three units in a single interface. On the Busses Technically speaking, Virtual Buss Compressors is actually a suite of four plug-ins. It’s been a while coming, so is Virtual Buss Compressors the last word in software-based buss compression? It’s no surprise, therefore, that a good buss compressor is a highly revered piece of kit, something that Slate Digital is well aware of, having painstakingly developed what the company thinks is the ultimate plug-in for buss compression tasks.
Whether you use a compressor across the main stereo buss or across subgroups, you soon realise that its design and sound is everything. The allure of a good dose of buss compression is easy to understand, adding punch, controlling the overall dynamic and bringing that important injection of ‘mix glue’.
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