API 2500 Bus Compressor

About

The API 2500 Bus Compressor is a permanent fixture on the stereo bus of many of the world's top engineers and producers. Considered the best of the Paul Wolff-era API circuit designs, this famed compressor adds energy, movement, and tone to stereo mixes and subgroups unlike any other compressor.

The API 2500 Bus Compressor plug-in is a spot-on emulation of this classic compressor, capturing its all-discrete signal path with Thrust® circuitry — and features a fanatically detailed modeling of API's custom transformers and 2510 and 2520 op amps.

Poring over proprietary "for-your-eyes-only" schematics made available to Universal Audio by API, our team of DSP experts analyzed two classic API 2500s — rackmount and in-console — ensuring one of UA's tightest behavioral circuit models to date. Working together with API's engineers, we scrutinized every facet of the plug-in against its analog counterpart, delivering the definitive representation of this iconic compressor. Early beta testing with UA artists confirmed that the plug-in ranks among the most accurate analog emulations in UA history.

Features

• Use any audio interface, with both UAD Native and Apollo Realtime/UAD-2 versions included
• Glue together your stereo mixes and subgroups with the world’s finest circuit emulation of the iconic API 2500 compressor
• Select between "Old” and "New” compression, with feedback or feed-forward sounds
• Sharpen your workflow with plug‑in‑only Mix and Headroom controls
• Punch up low frequencies with API's patented Thrust technology
• Contour your mix's stereo interaction with percent-based L/R Link controls
• Mix with artist presets from Jeff Balding (Faith Hill), Vance Powell (Jack White), Ryan Hewitt (Red Hot Chili Peppers), and more
• Versions Included with your Purchase
• UAD Native:
• Runs on your Mac or PC without any UA hardware
• Apollo Realtime & UAD-2:
• Runs accelerated on Apollo interfaces and UAD-2 hardware