Optica Compression has a special sonic character that audiophiles can really appreciate. The technology behind its behavior and the way it achieves gain reduction is very ingenious and at the same time quite simple: the core of the circuit is an electro-optical attenuator, whose light source intensity is directly proportional to the signal level. input. The second part of the gain reduction circuit is a photoconductor cell, which reads the intensity of the light and in turn, adjusts its resistance being applied to the signal. As a result, the output amplifier adjusts its gain, thus creating compression.
This analog modeling module faithfully recreates that specific (and extremely musical) "movement" that characterizes only the best optical compressors.
An important feature of optical compression is the total absence of distortion and coloration during gain reduction, and you can expect the same character and performance from this digital recreation.
Taking these features into account, vocals are one of the most common applications for this module, but the compression quality is very light, but still so effective that the Opto-Compressor can be used on any source where clean gain reduction is required. , stable and without distortion.
