The Pawn Shop Comp 2.0 is a fabulous hybrid tube circuit compressor that is made and designed by Korneff Audio. This pro tool with a great impact on your mixes and the overall sound quality of any sound source you pass it through. If you are looking to get a simple and effective solution to some punchy, gritty, warm or smooth sounding tracks, this plug-in has to be in your armoury. Even though the main feature of this plug-in is a compressor, there is much more to it than just that. With this efficient tool, you will have access to an adjustable tube preamp, a two-band EQ and some swappable components in the interface that will give you great parameter control.
One of the main features surrounding the Pawn Shop Comp has to be the punch and snap you an get out of drums, and this can be a single drum or an entire bus. The plug-in is also built for bass sound, will giving the ability to dial your own parameters and to control over the various principal tweaking options there are onboard. You can also try and use the plug-in with other instruments like electric guitars, with is vintage amp overdrive and saturation capabilities you can get some really nice results. You can also use the Pawn Shop Comp to get some seriously good vocals with the PSC channel strip.
Pawn Shap Comp can also be used with sampled pianos to add colour and character with a wide range of adjustability. You can also use it to give some harmonic structure to pads and use it as a glue to give definition to instruments. If you want to get creative, use the operating level to the top and emulate it as if you were blowing the gear up but without the real thing happening.
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