FLEXACOMP is a flexible punchy dynamic compressor, inspired by the well-known series of VCA hardware compressor pedals (Dynacomp™) from MXR® and it’s modifications.
The wide range of Attack & Release times with Ratio (from 1:1 up to 20:1) gives it flexibility for use with various instruments, such as bass, guitar, synthesizers, drums and vocals.
Like the SSL Bus Compressor and many others, which uses a VCA chip, so the envelope and ratio works in dB, not linear voltages.
VCA is a “Voltage Controlled Amplifier”. And it works in a compressor as an attenuator (turns the signal down when it’s fed a certain control voltage).
VCA usually has main (carrier) and control (modulator / sidechain) signals.
When the control signal level changes, the “curve” of how it gets to the wanted gain reduction is different. FlexaComp compressor, a VCA compressor, includes the sidechain with a level detection circuit (with configurable envelope detector).
Each compressor mode is based on its own parameters range and has its own compression character, but present as a dynamic VCA compressor.
The heart of this compressor is a Sidechain Envelope Detector, that makes FLEXACOMP the ultimate production compressor.
The internal Envelope Detector circuit block is based on 3 main (Punch, Fast, Smooth) modes and includes Low Frequency & High Frequency detectors, Attack & Release detectors. All these settings help to make a flexible punchy compressor. Use it with configurable envelope detection for additional Attack/Release smoothing and shaping in compressor processing.
Try out FLEXACOMP, the easy-to-use flexible dynamic VCA compressor with configurable envelope detector, based on the most-known compressor pedals.
If you are going to have one mix buss compressor that needs to cover a lot of different sounds, then a stereo VCA compressor is a smart choice.
FLEXACOMP as VCA compressor, creates cohesion and punch in your mixes.
It can sound transparent like the SSL® Bus compressor™, API® 2500™ and other big VCA brothers, but also like pedal VCA compressor legends, based on Dynacomp™ modifications.