Compstort

Compstort splits your sound into five bands with phase-aligned crossovers that sum flat, so nothing changes until you want it to. Each band has its own compressor, its own saturation and its own makeup gain, with a VU meter showing the gain reduction.

Choose a different saturation for each band: transistor, tube, tape, clip or torn speaker. Tighten the lows with tape, add tube bite to the mids, and leave the top clean, all in one plug-in. The Mix fader blends in the dry signal for parallel compression.

Five bands

Four movable crossovers from 20 Hz to 16 kHz. Phase-aligned, so the bands sum back flat.

A compressor per band

Threshold, ratio up to 20:1, attack, release and makeup on every band, each with its own in/bypass switch.

Five saturation styles

Transistor, tube, tape, clip and torn speaker, chosen separately for each band.

VU metering

A gain-reduction VU on every band and a VU on the master output.

Parallel mix

Blend the processed and dry signals with the master Mix fader, perfectly in phase.

Quality switch

HQ runs the engine at 8x oversampling for the cleanest saturation, or only when you bounce.