The Acme Opticom XLA-3 is a vintage style optical compressor which combines just enough control to be more flexible than some better known optical compressors with bags of character and old school vibe.
In this free video tutorial, brought to you with the support of Plugin Alliance, Pro Tools Expert team member Julian Rodgers demonstrates the XLA-3 on some drums, electric piano and bass. The drums benefit from some parallel compression via the the easily overlooked mix control. the bass is the perfect place to audition the smoothness of the slow response and the gritty roughness introduced by the fast setting and the electric piano gets some saturation without any compression at all courtesy of the amp control.
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