This is the Islander, our interpretation of Handcrafted Labs’ ingenious parallel tube design.
Compressor Features
• Stereo and Mid-side modes, linking or dual mono.
• Two gain controls: one for WET and one for DRY.
• Gain Link function mirrors your movements between the gain controls, allowing you to blend wet and dry sounds.
• Threshold to control how quickly the compressor starts to react.
• Attack from 0.2ms to 40ms.
• Release from 50ms to 2000ms.
• VU meters to measure compression.
• Feedback and feedforward sidechain at both 75Hz and 150Hz,
plus full range of course. Selectable and mixable channel between internal and external inputs
Additional Features
• Pro-grade clipper lets you push LUFS to the limit, and maybe even beyond.
• Different emphasis styles for the wet and dry sides. The wet side saturates to a brighter tone,
while the dry side saturates to a smoother tone.
• Since not everything is completely linear, we also include level calibration.
• Control linking lets you control both sides of the compressor
with just one set of moves.
• Delta monitoring lets you hear how the original signal changes.
• Oversampling allows for the smoothest possible operation
at the cost of some performance.
HCL Varis v1.0.7 – Modern Classic Boutique Compressor
Varis is a mastering all-tube compressor with a point-to-point Vari-mu design.
It includes feedback and feedforward modes, dual mono, mid-side and stereo operation,
independent pentode/triode signal paths, side chain circuitry, Edcor input transformers and Carnhill output transformers.
Compressor Features
• Stereo and Mid-side modes, linking or dual mono.
• Volume and separate wet mix.
• Pentode/triode circuitry
• Variable Gain Emphasis mode
• Mu-Differential response and air loop
• Threshold to control the onset of compressor response.
• Attack from 0.2ms to 40ms.
• Release from 100ms to 2000ms.
Additional Features
• Since not everything is completely linear, we include level calibration from -24 to +24 dBFS.
• Linking controls allows you to control both sides of the compressor
with just one set of moves.
• Delta monitoring allows you to hear the original signal changing.
• Oversampling allows for the smoothest possible operation at the cost of some performance.
• A total of 32 presets from TTLangen, bManic and Wavegrove
• VU meters for measuring compression.
• Variable sidechain from 10 to 1800 Hz with compensation.
• Sidechain with internal and external inputs, dynamic high-pass filter
and low-pass boost with compensation.