Heritage Audio Successor Stereo Bus Compressor

Introduced in 2019, the Heritage Audio Successor stereo mixbus compressor was a first in its class, finally allowing creative engineers and musicians to apply warm, colorful and fat compression when all that was previously available was clean and transparent VCA-based processors for these duties.

Adopted early by top class engineers such as Chris Lord-Alge, the Successor will let you feel how your separate tracks interact and blend together in a way not possible when master bus compression duties are relegated to the mastering stage.

Traditionally, bus compression has been taken care of by VCA-style devices, based on ICs, which are wholly unrelated to the warmth, fatness and character typically associated with discrete Class A technology, including chunky transformers and diode bridge-based gain reduction.

• True Stereo operation on single controls with matched gain cells for extremely precise left/right tracking and nearly zero offset in between channels. Compression tracking works in Oxford mode (highest signal takes over compression opposed to summing left and right channels).
• Carnhill based, transformer coupled balanced inputs and outputs for added character and vintage vibe.
• ´73 style Class A output stages bring the desired ´73 sound to your mix or drum busses.
• Diode-bridge based compression excels in bringing 2nd order harmonic distortion characteristics and true vintage tone while eliminating nasty odd harmonic content.
• Ultra-fast attack and release time options impossible to find in vintage designs allows for far more flexible settings, including FET like sounds and volume maximizing without transient artifacts.
• Complex sidechain filtering options work with the already common high pass filters, introducing mid band peak type filters and high-frequency compression, allowing bus correction not possible before.
• Sidechain SEND and RETURN connections allow for external sidechain signals to control the processing.
• Blend control offers built-in parallel compression without the need for any external equipment. Blend ON/OFF button allows for instant comparison between WET and DRY signals.
• Stepped controls for easy recall of settings.