DC1A is the little brother of the compression
monster DC8C. I've taken a few of my favorite settings from DC8C and tried to make it work in a two control
context. Sound wise it's comparable to the PUNCH mode
in DC8C but offers a few additional
features, such as negative ratio and stereo unlink. I've
always wanted to do a compressor with just an input and
output knob, a compressor that just works: gentle,
faithful, from almost invisible, smooth leveling to
heavy pumping with a nice crunchy saturation and punchy
enough to treat drums with.
DC1A looks like a one
trick pony. But don't get fooled by the lack of
additional controls. You may be surprised on how many
different material this little thing works. DC1A has a
few tricks up its sleeve: negative (over) compression,
parallel (New York style) compression, option to
compress left and right channel independently (via the
DUAL MONO switch), peak and RMS compression (RELAXED
switch on) and DEEP activates a high pass filter to
reduce pumping on bass heavy material
DC1A
is free! So try it out for yourself.
Download DC1A (version 3.5.0)
Windows
Win Installer
macOS
Mac Installer
Wanna check out the manual
first? Download the manual (pdf)
Wanna check the system requirements? Go to the FAQ section
Note: Since DC1A 3 has a
unique plugin ID and filename, you can use the original
DC1A 2 and the new one at the same time. You can still
download the older versions here