The product that started it all for Empirical Labs. Born of founder Dave Derr’s love of classic compressors like the 1176, LA-2A and Gain Brain (among others), the Distressor incorporates his favorite sonic characteristics of these, along with other unique and interesting features that have made it a staple for audio engineers all over the world. With over 28,000 units in the field, it’s safe to say that the Distressor is one of the best selling high end compressors of all time… if not THE best selling. A prominent recording engineer recently wagered that there probably was not a top 40 record made in the last five years that didn’t have at least one Distressor on it.

The product that started it all for Empirical Labs. Born of founder Dave Derr’s love of classic compressors like the 1176, LA-2A and Gain Brain (among others), the Distressor incorporates his favorite sonic characteristics of these, along with other unique and interesting features that have made it a staple for audio engineers all over the world. With over 28,000 units in the field, it’s safe to say that the Distressor is one of the best selling high end compressors of all time… if not THE best selling. A prominent recording engineer recently wagered that there probably was not a top 40 record made in the last five years that didn’t have at least one Distressor on it.

Arguably the coolest and most unique device in the Empirical Labs arsenal, the FATSO (Full Analog Tape Simulator and Optimizer) is a digitally controlled analog device that gives musicians and engineers easy access to many of the desirable characteristics exhibited by older tube and Class A electronics and magnetic tape mediums. This two channel audio processor musically integrates frequencies and transients, increasing the apparent volume while keeping tight control over peak levels.

In today’s modern age of digital recorders, DAWs and software plug-ins, Mike-E is the ultimate solution for getting a clean and strong, yet warm and musical signal into the box…and it couldn’t be easier to work – its front panel layout is so straight ahead that even inexperienced engineers will have no problem moving around on it right away.

As with ELI’s other signal processors, the Lil FrEQ Equalizer takes a somewhat unique approach to its job. Instead of daisy chaining several equalizers and frequency processors, we combined most of the sound sculpting tools an engineer needs into a compact single rack space box, while still offering the highest performance of any design in its class.

Drummer From Another Mother (DFAM) ist ein hochinteraktiver, semimodularer analoger Percussion-Synthesizer und eine erfrischende Abwechslung zur traditionellen Drum-Maschine.

Inspiriert von den klassischen Moog-Modularsynthesizern von früher, sind Grandmothers Sound- und Modulations-Engine sowie der interne Federhall zu 100% analog, was zu einem uneingeschränkten Klangvokabular von unermesslicher Schönheit führt. Darüber hinaus bietet Grandmother einen einfach zu bedienenden Arpeggiator/Sequenzer für jede Menge zusätzlichen Spass.

4-stimmiger paraphoner Analogsynthesizer mit Sequenzer, Arpeggiator, Stereo-Ladder Filter & Stereo-Delay

Mavis ist ein einfacher, analoger Synthesizer-Bausatz, der die enorme Klangfülle, für die Moog bekannt ist, in einem kompakten und funktionsreichen Instrument bietet.

Mehr als ein halbes Jahrhundert nach seiner Erfindung wird der Minimoog Model D in der Moog-Fabrik in Asheville, North Carolina, wieder produziert. Als aussergewöhnliches Klangwerkzeug und einer der beliebtesten und ikonischsten Synthesizer, die je entwickelt wurden, kehrt er in die Hände von Künstlern zurück und dient als Inspiration für die nächste Generation von Elektronikmusikern.