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A Versatile Do-anything Compressor

Looking for a great sounding and flexible stereo compressor? You'll find the elysia xpressor can easily handle any compression task. The discrete Class A circuitry keeps your sound intact, just like you want it, without crossover distortion. The xpressor sounds wide, open and punchy and will keep your audio pristine. You'll especially love the Auto Fast feature, a switchable semi-automation that lets you achieve the perfect attack. What's more, the xpressor features stepped pots, so you can always repeat your results.

elysia xpressor at a Glance:
  • Parallel compression
  • Stepped pots
  • Sidechain filter
Parallel compression

Parallel compression lets you dial in a mix of compressed and uncompressed signal. This is a built-in feature on the elysia xpressor. Parallel compression, sometimes called New York Compression, lets you maintain the subtleties of the performance while controlling and taming the dynamics.

Stepped pots

The elysia xpressor features stepped pots, each pot has 41 steps. This makes recalling precise settings very easy, and even experimenting with new settings. No more guessing on where the knob was exactly set to, the xpressor makes it simple.

Sidechain filter

The sidechain filter on the elysia xpressor lets you dial in compression on specific frequencies while avoiding others. For instance: you can compress the bass drum frequencies to your liking without having to compress the entire mix, which would likely lead to over compressing the song. You can really dial in your compression with the xpressor.

elysia xpressor Features
  • Stepped potentiometers for repeatable results
  • Versatile compressor with discrete Class-A topology
  • Auto Fast feature
  • Sidechain filter
  • Parallel compression
  • Analog dynamic LED meter
Put the elysia xpressor into your rack for versatile compression flavors!

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Tech Specs

  • Number of Channels: Stereo
  • Controls: Threshold, Ratio, Attack, Release, SCF, GRL, Gain, Mix
  • Threshold: 22 dB to -42 dB
  • Ratio: 1.2:1 to -1.6:1
  • Frequency Response: 10Hz-400kHz (-3 dB)
  • Inputs: 2 x XLR, 2 x 1/4"
  • Outputs: 2 x XLR, 2 x 1/4"
  • Sidechain I/O: 2 x TRS
  • Rack Spaces: 1U
  • Height: 1.75"
  • Width: 19"
  • Manufacturer Part Number: xpressor

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Customer Reviews

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Rated 5/5

FANTASTIC!

In love is an understatement. Going to be purchasing other processors soon.
Rated 5/5

Great comp

This thing is great. Extremely versatile clean pristine signal that enhances the sound. Make up gain sounds awesome too. Easily one of my first choices for anything in the mix. A great choice for mastering and mix bus as well. This is like the waves R comp of the analog world lol.
Rated 5/5

The xpressor rocks!

I've been using the xpressor on the mix bus for about a year now with good results. It's got some interesting and useful features, and it sounds great. Hard to find anything else to compete with it at this price.
Rated 5/5

Does it all quite well.

I've had it on the master, drums, synths, vocals -- pretty much everywhere. There was never a place that I didn't get a sound I wanted. While it's true the device has a particularly clean sound, there's something about it that kind of puts a 'halo' on everything, for better lack of explanation, a slight hifi sweetening is what I hear.

The SCF, GRL, MIX, and warm button are some honorable mentions that others have also gone into great detail explaining. Truthfully makes this thing bend audio with ease.

Now days I'm using it for tracking and pairing it with my great river. Compliments it very well.

I sold quite a few pieces of hardware last year for lack of use, but I kept this one.
Rated 5/5

G.O.A.T

It's amazing… it's hands down the best compressor in that price range and I would put it against anything above.

It is extremely well designed, starting with its true stereo design which makes it perfect for mastering, the variable SCF, GRL and MIX functions make this compressor incredibly flexible and that's what I love about it, there's just nothing I can't do with it.

It's truly a perfect unit to me, I can't recommend it enough
Music background: Mastering Engineer
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