Free OTT Compressor

Audio Damage has released Evil Otto, an OTT compressor. This is what they have to say about it...

OTT compression has become one of the most recognizable sounds in modern music production. If you've listened to anything in the EDM, pop, or hip-hop worlds in the last decade, you've heard it -- that hyper-present, larger-than-life quality where every detail of a sound is pushed forward and nothing hides in the background.

The technique itself is straightforward: take a multiband compressor, apply downward compression to tame the peaks in each band, and simultaneously apply upward compression to boost the quiet parts. Do this across three frequency bands and you get a sound that is dense, detailed, and aggressively "right there." The name says it all -- Over The Top.

Evil Otto is our take on this idea. It's not a clone of any particular implementation. We started from the core concept -- simultaneous upward and downward multiband compression -- and built a processor that gives you meaningful control over the behavior without burying you in parameters. You get the essentials: how much compression, how fast it reacts, independent control of the upward and downward amounts, per-band thresholds, per-band output levels, and a sidechain input for ducking. That's it. No hidden menus, no pages of settings.

Pricing and Availability:
Evil Otto is a free download on desktop; iOS has a small price due to the cost of supporting that ecosystem.

More information:

• Evil Otto

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