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NEOLD

U2A

An homage to what is rightfully considered the ultimate opto compressor of all time, based on sophisticated analog modeling with a couple of nifty tweaks.

Product Type:

Compression, Saturation, Mixing, Mastering, Hardware Emulation

User Groups:

Mixing Engineers, Mastering Engineers, Producers, Sound Designer

2-Buss Dry
2-Buss Wet
Acoustic Guitar Dry
Acoustic Guitar Wet
Beat Booster Dry
Beat Booster Wet
Electric Bass Dry
Electric Bass Wet A
Electric Bass Wet B
Electric Guitar Dry
Electric Guitar Wet
Horns Dry
Horns Wet
Live Drums Dry
Live Drums Wet A
Live Drums Wet B
Percussion Dry
Percussion Wet
Stab & Pad Dry
Stab & Pad Wet
Strumming Dry
Strumming Wet
Synth Bass Dry
Synth Bass Wet
Synth Booster Dry
Synth Booster Wet
Vocals Dry
Vocals Wet A
Vocals Wet B
U2A Sound Examples

Electro Optical

The U2A is an homage to what is rightfully considered the ultimate opto compressor of all time. It celebrates the bold minimalism and beautiful nonlinearities which built the legend, while providing unique access to system relevant component conditions for unconventional flexibility and control.

Through the Decades

In the analog world, there is a wide variety in how the individual hardware units sound and behave due to physical aging effects. The U2A makes use of this phenomenon, allowing to blend from a freshly serviced unit with a new opto cell to an age-old vintage device in its original state. Meanwhile, the near magical program-dependent release character of the T4B attenuator can be tweaked with an individual knob.

NEOLD vintage compressor plugin in DAW

Two in One

The U2A assigns makeup gain and THD injection to separate controls, so opto compression and tube saturation can be adjusted independently of each other. Rounded off with onboard parallel processing and the usual suspects like the infamous R37 sidechain filter network and a limiter mode switch, the ultimate tool for beefy and most musical leveling just got… complete.

NEOLD U2 compressor plugin part guit shot
Downloads

Download this plugin and all other Plugin Alliance installers HERE, using the PA Installation Manager desktop application.

Download the product manual for U2A here

Specification

Supported Plugin Formats
AAX Native, AU, AAX AudioSuite, VST2, VST3

Supported Operating Systems
macOS 12 down to macOS 10.11
Windows 11 down to Windows 8

Mac
Intel, or Apple Silicon architecture

PC
x64-compatible CPU

System requirements

Display resolution: 1440 × 900px or 1280 × 960px or higher
Memory: 2 GB RAM

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