Boz Digital Labs Plus 10dB Compressor Plugin (VST/AU/AAX/RTAS) Boz Digital Labs

+10db Compressor is meticulously modeled after one of the industries most iconic hardware compressors. Unless you refuse to listen to any music after Beethoven, you most certainly have heard this unit in action. Best yet, this is the first time this hardware unit has been available in plugin format.

Why model this unit?

It seems like everybody is modelling hardware these days, but Boz Digital’s designers wanted to do something a little different. They didn’t want to model any hardware units that have been done a million times. They wanted to do something that had never been done before but has been an icon in the recording industry, and the only way to do that was to team up with producer/mixer David Bendeth. He just happened to have a few of these in his rack, so he sent one to pore over.

Unless you stopped listening to music after “Johnny B Goode” then you have most definitely heard this hardware unit many many times. Think of Led Zeppelin drums.

In order to get this same compressor in hardware, not only would you have to pay over $2,000 to get one, but you’d have to deal with all the other drawbacks of using analog hardware. For a very small fraction of the price, you can get that same sound in the much more convenient software format.

Since they weren’t bound by the limits of the analog hardware, they also took the liberty of adding a couple features that make this even more powerful than the original hardware, such as adding a “Dry Passthrough” knob that makes parallel compression super easy, without having to set up extra buses.