The dbx 160 Compressor / Limiter is a fully licensed, faithful emulation of the legendary studio hardware, capturing the in-your-face sonics of its colorful VCA compression. As the first solid-state VCA compressor ever made, it has a character unlike any other dynamics processor: distinctive, slightly aggressive, and immediately recognizable. The plugin adds controls for modern workflows while retaining the original's simple control set and at-a-glance metering.

Its applications are broad. It is prized for fat compression textures on bass guitar, drum buses, and synths, and for giving acoustic guitars and snare drums real "thwack". Assigning it to a parallel drum bus to crush the signal, or using it subtly to inject fatness, are both standard uses. Modern additions include a Mix control for quick parallel compression, a sidechain hi-pass filter so kick and bass retain full low end, linked stereo, dual mono, or mid-side operation, and transparent performance with ultra-low distortion. It runs natively on macOS and Windows without UA hardware, or accelerated on Apollo interfaces or UAD Accelerators, in VST3, AU, and AAX formats.

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