Producer David Bendeth, Boz Digital Labs Release +10db Compressor Plug-In
Multi-platinum producer David Bendeth (Paramore, Breaking Benjamin, Papa Roach, Of Mice & Men, A Day to Remember) has a big fan club here at SonicScoop (check his inspiring “Mix Analysis” and “My Go To Saturation” interviews) — and he’s just teamed up with Boz Digital Labs to produce the +10db compressor plugin.
Never before modeled, David Bendeth’s compressor is one of a kind.
Boz Digital Labs modeled David Bendeth’s go-to one of a kind, vintage compressor and added extra functionality that only the digital domain can achieve. Bendeth further delivered 10 presets for drums and vocals so users can familiarize themselves with the compressors unique characteristics.
The +10db compressor plug-in is available now for an intro price of $99 ($199 MSRP), or $65 for the compressor/equalizer separately ($99 MSRP). The plug-in is available for Mac and Windows in AAX, AU, RTAS, VST, and VST3 formats. Here are more details from Boz Digital Labs:
Product Description
+10db Compressor is the first of it’s kind channel strip plugin. This plugin is modelled after a very highly sought after compressor hardware unit. We didn’t just use the hardware unit for inspiration, we dug in deep and made sure that it sounded just like the original.
Why did we model this unit?
Here’s the deal. It seems like everybody is modelling hardware these days, but we wanted to do something a little different. We didn’t want to model any hardware units that have been done a million times. We wanted to do something that had never been done before but has been an icon in the recording industry, and the only way to do that was to team up with producer/mixer David Bendeth. He just happened to have a few of these in his rack, so he sent us one to pour over.
Unless you stopped listening to music after “Johnny B Goode” then you have most definitely heard this hardware unit many many times. Think of Led Zeppelin drums.
In order to get this same compressor in hardware, not only would you have to pay over $2,000 to get one, but you’d have to deal with all the other drawbacks of using analog hardware. For a very small fraction of the price, you can get that same sound in the much more convenient software format. There are really no downsides (unless you live in Alaska an need a room heater)
A few extra features
Since we weren’t bound by the limits of the analog hardware, we took the liberty of adding a couple features that make this even more powerful than the original hardware. For one, we added a “Dry Passthrough” knob that makes parallel compression super easy, without having to set up extra buses.
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