A modern way to smash
Whether you’re a vintage hardware voyeur or a modern-day plugin maestro, everyone loves slamming the living daylights out of an audio signal. Let’s compare and contrast two heavy-handed compression plugins that work in different ways, but have similar uses: Soundtoys’ Devil-Loc and Xfer’s OTT.
Devil-Loc is the plugin ode to Shure’s Level-Loc, a consumer-grade brickwall limiting amplifier that was first used in PA systems in the '60s, and later in studios for distinctive, trashy and dense distortion. The Level-Loc worked like a washing machine full of grit on a spin cycle, and became a producer’s secret weapon for getting seriously dirty
