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While traditional optical compressors are often relegated to vocals and bass, OptoRED is a workhorse across the board: OptoRED includes a 12dB/octave low-cut filter (up to
Tame dynamic peaks in expressive synth patches without killing the movement.
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The team at Tone Empire didn't just stop at cloning the circuit; they expanded the feature set to solve real-world mixing problems.