BRAINWORX Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor

Formed around the year 2000 by punk and underground producer Peter Reardon, Shadow Hills Industries is a somewhat mysterious company. Those who have heard of it know of the impressive reputation the company’s boutique pro-audio hardware commands, not to mention the serious price tags associated with it. But Shadow Hills tends to avoid advertising and marketing, relying instead on reputation and word-of-mouth alone – it’s almost like a secret society where if you know, you know.

This mask of secrecy slipped a few years back, however, when Brainworx developed a model of the Shadow Hills Industries Mastering Compressor, a high-end dynamics processor with several unconventional features. This was released as a UAD plug-in for use with Universal Audio interfaces and satellite DSP hardware, where it rapidly became one of the most popular and respected dynamics plug-ins available on the platform. Brainworx has now updated its model