Analog and Digital have their pros and cons. For this MixCon workshop, Charles Hoffman walks us through a direct comparison of hardware and software compressors on several real world audio examples.
Big thanks to Empirical Labs for hooking us up with their Distressor analog compressor and Arousor digital compressor to Read more...
Empirical Labs, makers of the famed Distressor compressor have two acclaimed recent plugins that are being constantly updated: The Big FrEQ and the Arousor.
Find out all the tricks here as producer Ryan Earnhardt walks us through their functions and mixes an entire track using practically nothing but these two Read more...
Empirical Labs Inc., (ELI), the New Jersey-based audio hardware manufacturer and software developer, announced that is has named Matt Ward as Strategic Advisor. Empirical Labs is the creator of such well-known music and sound production tools as the Distressor, FATSO, and Lil FrEQ hardware units, and AROUSOR and BIG FrEQ Read more...
A compression obsession. That’s what was building up inside a young audio engineer named Dave Derr, slowly but surely shaping a mind for dynamics until his concept was converted to reality: the Empirical Labs Distressor.
Derr’s fascination went hand in hand with the special magic that he experienced early on Read more...
It is often said that necessity is the mother of invention. If that is the case, then the pro audio community can thank necessity for bringing into existence three major players in music production that all turn 20 this year: Soundtoys, Empirical Labs and Wave Distribution.
In the mid 1990’s, Read more...
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