Collection: Compressors / Limiters

Compressors / Limiters

Control dynamics, enhance clarity, and achieve polished professional sound with Compressors / Limiters, essential audio processors used in studio recording, live sound, broadcasting, mixing, and mastering. These tools manage signal levels by reducing excessive peaks, improving consistency, and protecting audio systems from overload.

This category includes studio compressors, limiters, compressor-limiters, single-channel and multi-channel units, analog compressors, digital compressors, VCA, FET, optical, and tube-based designs. Compressors shape dynamics and tone, while limiters act as a safeguard by preventing signals from exceeding a set level.

Compressors and limiters are widely used by recording engineers, producers, musicians, broadcasters, podcasters, worship teams, and live sound professionals. They are essential for processing vocals, drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, speech, and full mixes, helping maintain clarity and balance across different audio sources.

Modern compressors and limiters feature adjustable threshold, ratio, attack, release, makeup gain, and sidechain controls, offering precise dynamic shaping. Some designs provide transparent control, while others add musical coloration and harmonic character, making them valuable creative tools as well as technical processors.

Compressors and limiters are commonly paired with microphone preamps, channel strips, EQs, audio interfaces, mixers, studio monitors, and DAWs, forming a core part of professional audio signal chains.

From subtle dynamic smoothing to aggressive peak control, compressors and limiters deliver consistency, impact, and professional sound quality for any audio application.