Compressors / Limiters
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2254 Ltd-2
£1085 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire
The Chandler Limited LTD-2 is a hand-wired 2254/2264/33609 that has been handmade using parts and build techniques from the original manufacture of the modules. Grounding, wiring techniques, original transformers, transistors, and much more attribute to the special sound of these units and have been painstakingly recreated in each LTD-2. We even make our chassis to resemble the old modules-...
Abbey Road Tg12413 Limiter Native
£199 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire
Native version supports: LE/AU/VST The TG12413 plug-in is an authentic emulation of the compressor / limiter from the legendary EMI TG12345 mixing console, which was used on many classic recordings such as The Beatles' Abbey Road and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. The TG12345 consoles were custom-built for EMI's studios and were never sold commercially. The plug-in brings the...
Abbey Road Tg12413 Limiter Tdm
£345 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire
TDM version The TG12413 plug-in is an authentic emulation of the compressor / limiter from the legendary EMI TG12345 mixing console, which was used on many classic recordings such as The Beatles' Abbey Road and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. The TG12345 consoles were custom-built for EMI's studios and were never sold commercially. The plug-in brings the sound of this rare and...
Alpha Compressor
£5995 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire
The alpha compressor is a mighty tool for professional dynamics processing. Featuring innovative functions with perfect technical implementation and an absolutely uncompromising quality of sound, it sets new standards for mastering applications and for cultivating any kind of audio material. It offers M/S processing, parallel compression as well as sidechain and audio filters, just to name a...
Alpha Plugin
£190 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire
The alpha compressor plugin is the software reincarnation of our famous mastering compressor. It gives you a painstaking emulation of the sound and features the hardware is known and popular for – programmed by the code experts from Brainworx.But not only the final stage of mastering will profit big time from this ultimate dynamics processor. In fact, the compression section alone is ...
Dynax2 Stereo Dynamic Sound Shaper
£2495 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire
The Dynax2 is more than an ordinary compressor, it is designed as a Dynamic Sound Shaper, a creative tool meant for the creative sound engineers. Conceived around very low distorsion circuits, the Dynax2 allows for a wide range of effects, starting with the smoothest and most transparent compression, and going to the harshest and most spectacular sound designs. Both "attack" and "release"...
El7 Fatso
£1545 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire at £70 per day.
The EL7 FATSO is a modern digitally controlled analog device that offers many of the "musical non-linearities" exhibited by the older tube, class A discrete, and magnetic tape mediums. This two channel audio processor will musically integrate frequencies and transients and increase the apparant volume without actual increase in peak levels. In addition, two channels of famous Empirical Labs...
El8 Distressor
£975 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire
The Distressor is an automatic gain (or volume) control device (AGC in engineering terms) designed for pro audio (music) applications. Basically, it electronically controls the volume of just about any source in a very pleasing, and "musical" manner - adding fullness, intelligibility, and especially in the Distressor's case - excitement. This type of device is often called a "limiter" or...
El8s Distressor
£1945 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire at £90 per day.
Stereo pair of Distressor EL8's (two mono units, factory calibrated, including stereo link cables) Click here for EL8 details...
El8xm Distressor
£1099 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire at £50 per day.
Single channel Distressor (as per the EL8) including the British Mode & Stereo Image Link option. Click here for EL8 details...
El8xs Distressor
£2199 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire at £90 per day.
Stereo pair of EL8XM Distressors (two mono units factory-calibrated, inc stereo link cables) including the British Mode & Stereo Image Link options. Click here for EL8 details....
Es-8 Remote Cut-off Tube Limiter
£2470 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire
The 6386 and ES-8 are modern two channel limiters designed to have the compression characteristics of a vintage unit, but with a higher level of sonic accuracy. Rather than trying to recreate the past, we've taken an entirely different approach. The 6386 uses the gain control tube (remote cutoff triode) found in the vintage Fairchild limiters to provide the classic feedback response unique...
Germanium Compressor
£1099 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire at £40 per day.
The Germanium series continues with the GERMANIUM Compressor. The GERM Comp starts with the same all class A amp found in the GERM Pre and Tone Control and is transformer balanced in and out. The Compression circuit uses a FET gain reduction element but with the tricks and flexibilty of all the GERM units. Some of the most notable additions include a WET/DRY mix (for "submixing" tracks...
Hellax - All-purpose Mono Compressor
£1475 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire
Designed by Olivier Bolling, HELLAX is an all-purpose compressor based on the DYNAX?. This quality-manufactured unit offers a very low distortion with powerful features, from light compression to sound shaping, for a competitive price. ...
Little Devil Compressor
£740 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire at £30 per day.
New! CHANDLER LIMITED enters the 500 race furiously with its new LITTLE DEVIL Equalizers and Compressors. Using all discrete circuits that combine Chandler's best designs with the hottest designs from the past, transformer balanced everything, and the American hand made quality you expect from Chandler, the LITTLE DEVILS will take the lunchbox UP (or DOWN:-) to the next level......
Mpressor
£2695 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire at £60 per day.
The mpressor is a new tool for creative dynamics processing. On top of the tried and tested standard features, this creative compressor provides several special functions that produce fat and freaky sounds by employing a punchy control behavior, colorations full of character and extreme settings. Besides classic tracking applications, its favorite domains are groovy effect compression and...
Ocl-2 Electro-optical Compressor/limiter
£2075 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire
The OCL-2 is a two channel electro-optical compressor/limiter designed for the utmost in transparency, detail and versatility. Our short signal path design uses a custom optical input attenuation network in front of an all tube class A gain stage. Since the signal path is entirely transformerless, we've eliminated the coloration inherent in traditional transformer-coupled tube designs. The result...
Pl-2 Jfet/mosfet Peak Limiter
£2,258.40 exluding VAT
The PL-2 is a stand-alone two channel version of the very popular peak limiter in our Quartet II Tube Recording Channel. It uses a novel approach to brickwall limiting in the analog domain, one that is fast enough to prevent digital overs without using time delay or phase-shift delay techniques. This allows us to keep the analog signal path short, and keep the limiting circuit 'switched out' of...
Tg1 Abbey Road Special Edition Compressor
£2695 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire at £120 per day.
The Chandler Limited TG1 is a recreation of the classic EMI TG12413 Limiter used in custom EMI and Abbey Road recording and mastering consoles from the late 60's. The TG Limiter was originally designed to be like the Fairchild 660/670 which was loved by many EMI engineers, including Geoff Emerick, but ended up with a very special sound all its own. These rare pieces were never commercially ...
Tg12413 Zener
£3299 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire at £140 per day.
The EMI TG12413 Zener Limiter is the ultimate TG Limiter issued in celebration of the 75th birthday of Abbey Road Studios. The Zener Limiter was conceived by Chandler Limited designer Wade Goeke and is based on the vintage EMI circuits used to record The Beatles and Pink Floyd. This newest EMI Limiter continues the tradition of EMI Limiters started in 1956 with the RS114 tube limiter, and...
Thc
£3349 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire
The THC is a two channel hybrid compressor that employs eight valves and four discrete amplifiers to achieve a unique level of control over dynamic range, harmonic distortion content, and tonal balance. After the transformer coupled input, audio is split into two separate parallel processing paths. The first stage is a pair of variable transconductance EF183 valves operating in a push-pull...
Ubk Fatso
£1750 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire at £50 per day.
A completely retooled compressor section is what sets the UBK Fatso apart from a stock ELI Fatso. Designed to give the operator the most unflinchingly musical compression regardless of the sounds being processed or the amount of compression being applied, it will never pump or fold. The UBK Fatso makes easy work of the most difficult and mysterious process in sound engineering:...
Xpressor 19
£870 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire at £60 per day.
You're looking for a stereo compressor. You want pristine sound and can't accept compromise in terms of signal quality. You don't want a one trick pony, but a flexible machine that covers all the standards and then some. And ruining yourself in order to get it is not really an option... You're looking for the xpressor. Its discrete audio path running in constant class-A mode...
Xpressor 500
£595 exluding VAT
This product is available to hire at £30 per day.
The xpressor 500 is an extremely versatile stereo compressor available in API's 500 series format. With its many unique features taken from our flagship products, you not only get great compression, but an amount of control on processing which is hardly ever experienced elsewhere. No matter if you want to set and forget or plunge deep into the secrets of compression, the xpressor 500 is...


