Plugin Alliance has introduced a new audio plugin that aims to deliver authentic sounding vintage opto compression. The NEOLD U2A is designed to make everything you send through it sound thick, rich and bold.
The U2A is a homage to what is rightfully considered the ultimate opto compressor of all time. It celebrates the bold minimalism and beautiful nonlinearities which built the legend, while providing unique access to system relevant component conditions for unconventional flexibility and control.
In the analog world, there is a wide variety in how the individual hardware units sound and behave due to physical aging effects. The U2A makes use of this phenomenon, allowing you to blend from a freshly serviced unit with a new opto cell, and an age-old vintage device in its original state. Meanwhile, the near magical program-dependent release character of the T4B attenuator can be tweaked with an individual knob.
The U2A assigns makeup gain and THD injection to separate controls, so opto compression and tube saturation can be adjusted independently of each other. Rounded off with onboard parallel processing and the usual suspects like the infamous R37 sidechain filter network and a limiter mode switch, the ultimate tool for beefy and most musical leveling just got… complete.
Available in VST/VST3, AU and AAX plugin formats, NEOLD U2A is priced $249 USD. An introductory offer is available for a limited time. The plugin is also added all MEGA and MIX&MASTER Bundles at no extra cost.
More information: Plugin Alliance
