Big Blue Compressor

Those who are passionate audiophiles might, at some point in their musical experience, wish to make use of compression in their audio files. Numerous software solutions offer such capabilities, but Big Blue Compressor promises to provide a different approach.

Big Blue Compressor is a plug-in that was created for allowing users to compress the preferred sound range in their audio files. It will offer them several tools that can help them attenuate the level of their audio signal when a certain threshold is exceeded.

Having as its main prerequisite a compatible VST host application, the plug-in will be easy to access in its respective VST folder, which is automatically created in the root directory of users’ PCs. People will benefit from a graphical interface that features multiple adjustment knobs, sliders and pressure-feedback buttons, which will help them add the preferred effects.

Compared to conventional compressor utilities, Big Blue Compressor was created to allow one to add individual signatures to the compressed files. It will enable users to control the character of the compression algorithm and the characteristics of the output sound.

People will be able to either achieve transparent, very clean and smooth output results or dramatically reshaped sound transients. Joining characteristics from both the digital and analogue world, the plug-in provides features such as “Look Ahead” or saturation of transients respectively.

Some of its main features include a tube-compressor-style dynamic saturation, stereo imaging, peak/RMS compression mode, variable-knee limiting with proprietary tube modeling. Big Blue Compressor supports sample rates of up to 384 kHz.