Customer Reviews

  • Analogue 2 go

    ★★★★★
    by Reto Rausch
    I immediately fell in love with this compressor. Just throw it on your master or any other bus. It makes things sound more appealing even without any compression.

  • Incredible tone box

    ★★★★★
    by Ben Collier
    Adds instant vibe to everything I've put it on, injects life into lacklustre vocals, works really well on orchestral busses for gentle squeeze and colour, definitely a secret weapon!

  • Character and color!

    ★★★★☆
    by Francesco Scarpa
    La-2a type compressors have always had little color, which is why their use has never been creative type in my workflow.
    In the case of Opticom XLA-3, the character and color make a compressor similar to La-2a a very effective, creative and rich sounding plugin.
    With extreme settings, the audio material has a lot of difficulty being used for use outside the creative sphere, but at intermediate settings, you get an excellent compression for the three tracks and add color and harmonics enriching the sound.
    Beautifull!

  • VIBE

    ★★★★★
    by Nick F
    Unique, can be subtle, but shouldn't be used like that. It's a monster on any source. Recommended.

  • is great

    ★★★★★
    by riley
    I've never used the actual Opticom, so i don't know about how it sounds compared.... but as far as emulating the way real tube compressors and circuits are this is very very good. It can be clean and transparent or SUPER hairy. I've never heard a more interesting tube circuit modeled in software. TONS of tone shaping possibilities.
    Love it on vocals, parallel squishy drum crushing, guitar bus. Just tried it to blow up a reverb send and it was amazing. It's actually quiet versatile, I'm sure I'll find many uses.
    Be warned it's pretty heavy on the CPU but it's not unreasonable. I do sorta wish it had a "headroom" or "THC" switch like a lot of the other bx models have. I've gotten used to that on the townhouse and bx_consoles.

  • Yesyesyes

    ★★★★★
    by LongHalloween
    Bought this and had it slamming my busses within 5 mins of downloading, love it!

  • Super Tank!

    ★★★★★
    by Mchangani
    The amp, response,mix knob and output trim work on any material.
    this thing if the input is driven hard it can be gritty, on slow and slight input drive its clean! I use it on my drum buss,bass,vocals and instruments. its a secret weapon!

  • Essential

    ★★★★★
    by Sol
    Simply amazing! Use this on a lot of different prog material 5/5

  • Acme Opticom XLA-3

    ★★★★★
    by André Luiz
    The Acme Opticom XLA-3 is a fantastic tool. Simplicity of use, versatility and super musical results are their main trademarks - specially on vocals, where it definitely shines. Pull th trigger; you simply can’t go wrong with this one!

  • xla-3

    ★★★★★
    by kjm2239
    realgoodshit
    Plugin Alliance response
    Shortest 5 star review ever! :-)Thanks.