SoundToys Plug-In

The SoundToys Devil-Loc Deluxe Plug-In is an Audio Level Destroyer - A crushing, pounding, aggressive compressor for massive drums. Devil-Loc Deluxe is SoundToys' spin on an old classic. It's an extreme effect, and can create huge sounds with drums and room mics, and in small amounts can add sizzle to things like vocals or acoustic guitar. The SoundToys Devil-Loc Deluxe Audio Level Destroyer is a limiter effect plug-in inspired by the Shure Level-Loc (Model M62 Audio Level Controller), a podium mic limiter from the late 1960's. The Level-Loc (and later the Model M62V Audio Level Controller; basically an M62 with an added input level knob) was a consumer-grade brickwall limiting amplifier, designed to keep audio in a PA system level. In the hardware units the output level would be “locked” (by heavy limiting) once audio reached a certain threshold. Pretty useful piece of hardware for a public address system, right? But why make a plug-in modeled off of this unit? Well, it's all about the way that the Level-...