New Stillwell Audio Bus Compressor!

[AdamWathan]

"Bombardier is our most ambitious project to date – a premium quality buss compressor, tailored for smooth and musical processing of complex audio such as drum groups, vocal stems and your full stereo mix, lending a controllable sense of weight, fluidity and cohesion.

Bombardier gives a nod to the non-linear and frequency-variant subtleties of a wide range of Grade-A hardware buss compressors, and should you wish these can be pushed almost into the realms of a character compressor.

Due to its RMS compression engine (and unlike The Rocket, which uses peak compression), Bombardier is ideally suited to final mixdown and mastering usage, as well as for those who like to set up buss dynamics first and then mix ‘into’ the buss compressor.

Bombardier’s party piece is the new and unique ‘bomb’ processing algorithm which, when selected, gives attack and release settings that are effectively instantaneous while yielding exceptionally smooth gain reduction. Bomb mode is sure to become a firm favourite with mastering engineers the world over, but can also give extremely satisfying results in single track and buss applications

Five different and highly effective pre-emphasis filter modes vary Bombardier’s response to the frequency spectrum and are key to preserving transparency during full-mix compression.

Bombardier is very flexible, offering forward/feedback topologies, variable and automatic release behaviours, sidechain operation, parallel processing and variable gain reduction range limiting. Choosing appropriate settings for the task at hand is critical to getting the best out of Bombardier, so a full range of well chosen presets are provided."

http://www.stillwellaudio.com/?page_id=342

 

[Metaltastic]

Looks like a cheap Aiwa stereo from the 90s, but I'm intrigued

 

[Machinated]

looks good! cant wait to try it out!

 

[MetalJonesy]

whats their Event Horizon softclip limiter like?

 

[~BURNY~]

Mode 1 + Forward= yummy.
I will buy it now.

 

[Jaymz]

This looks like it could be a winner

 

[FIXXXER]

Looks like a cheap Aiwa stereo from the 90s, but I'm intrigued

that was also my first thought
that wood thing...i can't understand
why the hell people put it on technics or cars...uke:

 

[006]

whats their Event Horizon softclip limiter like?

BUY IT NAO. YOU WILL NEVER RGRET MY WIZDOM ADVICES.

 

[MetalJonesy]

haha do u use it Mike?

both a clipper and limiter, sounds tempting!

 

[006]

Man I use it alllll the time. Drum bus, snare drums, kick drums, tom bus, vocal bus, 2bus... Great deal for like ~$50!

Try the demo man, it's 100% unlimited (no pun intended HURR)

 

[Jaymz]

Just been testing this and it seems really nice! Ive just been using it on release: bomb, attack....bomb, 2.1 ratio, mode 1, about 3db GR and it sounds pretty good.

Can't tell for sure atm, try it out and let us know how its working out.

 

[arv_foh]

Can't wait to try it. I love Stillwell Plugins. I use the Rocket comp and Event Horizon all the time.

 

[t-rave]

gotta try this one... Love most of the Stillwell plugs... pro quality at hobbyist prices!

 

[Nebulous]

Stillwell products don't need an iLok do they?

 

[arv_foh]

Stillwell products don't need an iLok do they?

Nope

 

[Nebulous]

F0ckin sweet!

 

[Pedro Teixeira]

This looks mighty impressive, mainly being a rms comp. A lot to tweak, any of you guys been messing with the demo or bought it? Anyone knows if the Reaper only version is "gui-less"?