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.

Westküste? Ostküste? Oder doch gar kein Synthese-Stil, einer bestimmten Küste zugehörig, da zu individuell? Der 0-Coast (Zero-Coast oder O-Coast, wie du willst) ist ein etwas anderer semi-modularer Desktopsynthesizer. Kein Filter und doch mit grandioser Klangbearbeitung; keine MIDI-Buchse und doch MIDI-fähig; mit Tempogenerator, aber ohne einen Sequenzer zu haben? Und das ganze auch noch voll spannungssteuerbar.

The Ch.Svr music synthesizer module is a small utility module, offering several channels of signal-processing that will be useful in just about any modular system. As a condensation/extension of the sum/offset/attenuversion aspects of MATHS, it continues the great tradition of sculpting the control signals we use to sculpt our sound signals.

Make Noises langerwarteter DPO (Dual Prismatic Oscillator) ist ein doppelter analoger VCO mit internen, vielfältigen Modulationsmöglichkeiten, FM, Wavemultiplier und so weiter. Von der Grundidee von Haupt- und Modulationsoszillator mit interner FM orientiert er sich grob am Buchla 259 Dualoszillator.

The Dual Stereo Gate (DXG) music synthesizer module is a Dual Stereo Low Pass Gate and Mixer. It follows in the footsteps of the QMMG, Optomix, RxMx, DynaMix, and LxD. Unlike its predecessors, the DXG is specifically oriented around mixing stereo signals, making it an important addition to any system containing modules like XPO, QPAS, Morphagene, Mimeophon, and other stereo modules by Make Noise or others. 

The Mimeophon music synthesizer module is a stereo, multi-zone color audio repeater by Make Noise and soundhack, coded by Tom Erbe.

Experimenteller Sampler – Morphagene kombiniert virtuelle Tonbänder nebst klassischen Schnitttechniken mit modernen Granular-Algorithmen, um Sound zu prozessieren. Klänge und Geräusche lassen sich mit wenigen Handgriffen aufnehmen, zerteilen, schichten und neu arrangieren.