It captures that harmonic warmth I remember from that lonely hardware unit that sat at the bottom of the rack back in the day. Don't get me wrong, when I want the smoothest plug compression, this is the one I reach for. This plug in is really close to the hardware in that it captures the warmth of the hardware but its not as smooth when you start to get into the 5dBs and more of compression range. Now almost 30 years have passed and I own this plug but plan to purchase the UA re-issue in 2022. The vocals were being compressed 5-10dB and it sounded magical. A few days later we recorded vocals and ran all of them through the La-2A. The difference was subtle but noticeable and dearly missed when bypassed. He told me to sit in the engineers seat and listen while he bypassed the unit on and off. He ran some bass through it, getting 2-3dBs of compression. I had absolutely no idea what it did so I asked him and he just said, "Its butter." LOL The young in house engineer never touched it but one day an older gentleman was mixing an album there and turned that lonely La-2A on.
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