Classic VCA BUS compressor with modern features
HoRNet H4K Bus Compressor: Capture the Legendary ‘Big Console Sound’
Experience the legendary ‘big console sound’ that has defined countless hit records with the HoRNet H4K bus compressor. This powerful plugin emulates the classic VCA circuitry, enhancing your mix with cohesion, power, and clarity.
Glue at Your Fingertips
The HoRNet H4K bus compressor brings the iconic “glue effect” directly into your favorite DAW. By utilizing the same principles as the classic hardware, this plugin helps you achieve that coveted, solid sound in a digital environment.
Modern Features with Classic Controls
The HoRNet H4K bus compressor features traditional multi-position switches for RATIO, ATTACK, and RELEASE, alongside continuously variable potentiometers for THRESHOLD and MAKE-UP. Additionally, it offers modern parameters such as fine input/output trim control, Auto Trim, Auto Gain Reduction, Auto Attack/Release calculations, oversampling, and a dry/wet ratio. This blend of classic and modern controls allows you to achieve the best sound for your mixes effortlessly.
Control and Functionality
One of the standout features of the HoRNet H4K bus compressor is its ability to bypass the compressor while keeping the analog amplifier emulation active. This enables you to use the plugin as an analog saturation tool. The automatic gain compensation feature ensures smooth management of volume changes caused by gain reduction, providing consistent output levels without manual adjustments.
Precision Control
The HoRNet H4K bus compressor allows precise shaping of your signal path by individually controlling the pre and post-emulation gain levels. These can be automatically adjusted (Auto Trim) or linked together (Link I/O) to maintain consistent input and output levels.
Dynamic Reaction to Your Music
The HoRNet H4K bus compressor offers six attack rates (0.1; 0.3; 1; 3; 10; 30 ms) and selectable release times (0.1; 0.3; 0.6; 1.2 seconds, and AUTO). The AUTO setting dynamically adjusts the release time in real-time according to the incoming audio characteristics. This ensures effective, natural-sounding compression without manual adjustments.
Pristine Audio Quality
To guarantee the best audio quality, the HoRNet H4K bus compressor includes variable oversampling options ranging from 2x to 8x with automatic settings. This reduces artifacts like aliasing, automatically selecting the optimal oversampling amount based on your session’s sample rate.
Preset Management and Factory Presets
The HoRNet H4K bus compressor includes convenient load and save buttons for managing presets, making it easy to recall favorite settings or experiment with new ones.
The Ultimate Tool for Professional Audio Production
The HoRNet H4K bus compressor plugin is essential for achieving the iconic ‘big console’ sound and adding a unique sonic solidity to your projects. Whether working on music, film scores, or broadcast audio, the HoRNet H4K will become an indispensable part of your workflow.
Experience the transformative power of the HoRNet H4K bus compressor in your audio production today!
Demo
The demo is fully functional except for the fact that every now and then it will silence out, you cannot save parameter values with your session and the plugin will not respond to automation coming from the host.
Features
- Classic VCA BUS compression
- Full analog emulation of the VCA circuitry
- Ratio control with three preset values: 2:1, 4:1, and 10:1
- VUMeter for carefully checking the Gain Reduction levels
- Ability to disable the compressor with the IN button
- Automatic volume compensation for gain reduction
- Adjustable pre and post analog emulation input and output levels
- Automatic input level setting
- Ability to link input and output to maintain constant signal level
- Automatic input level setting to achieve the desired gain reduction
- Automatic attack and release times, with the option for manual adjustment
- Ability to blend the compressed signal with the original for parallel compression
- Oversampling from 2x to 8x with automatic setting
- Bypass button to completely disable the plugin
- Ability to disable analog emulation and noise separately
- Load and save buttons for managing presets
- Compatible with macOS 10.13 and later, and Windows 10 and later
- Available in VST3, AAX, and Audio Unit formats
- Freely resizable interface
- Available in both light and dark themes
- Apple Silicon native support
Copy protection
The HoRNet H4K Bus Compressor has no copy protection, we don’t believe in copy protection, they are always cracked and they are annoying for the users, we all know you are not going to give away the plugin on the internet…
So simply download the plugin and enjoy your recordings!
Hi Saverio,
Nice addition to the suite of HP compressors!
I'd say that the scale of the VU meter should focus on the increments closer to zero since bus compression will go rarely beyond 4dB of GR.
eg: 0 1 2 3 4 8 16
Regards