PSP Impressor is an incredibly accurate, full-featured, high-precision compressor designed to process entire mixes, busses or individual tracks. The PSP Impressor emulates the magical characteristics of classic valve and optoelectronic compressors as well as classic modern compressors.
The PSP Impressor also features an easily customizable side chain. The side chain filter has a significant impact on the sound and performance of the PSP Impressor. Depending on your sidechain filter settings, the filter also allows you to use the compressor as a de-esser or to reduce the effect of pumping heavy kicks and the like.
The PSP Impressor also works very well in combination with the PSP Saturator. With the PSP Impressor in front of the PSP Saturator in the signal path (think of it like putting a bus compressor in front of a tape recorder), you can use both plug-ins at the same time (using fine tuning!) to give a very cohesive sound, as if your mix was created on an expensive analog equipment. Of course, you can also change the order by placing the PSP Saturator before the PSP Impressor – never be afraid to experiment!
• A wide range of soft knee characteristics
• Peak or RMS level detection
• External or internal side chain signal with a smooth bell-type filter
• An output algorithm which can operate as either a brick wall limiter or soft saturation algorithm to preserve peaks above 0dBFS.
