Omnipressor® 2830*Au
50th Anniversary Reissue
Your Omnipressor Loves You…
Introduced in the early 1970s, the Omnipressor was the first dynamics effects processor of any kind, suddenly making possible a new, wide range of dynamics effects unlike anything that had come before it.
And Wants To Be Your Friend!
Originally invented by Eventide’s founder, Richard Factor (and later redesigned for production by Jon Paul), the Omnipressor made a host of effects possible. It featured variable control of all aspects of dynamic modification. It also introduced the notion of the ‘side chain’ and foretold techniques that today we take for granted like ‘look ahead’ processing. One of our first customers was a young Brian May, lead guitarist of Queen. With the Omnipressor in his rig, his sound was never the same.
“The Omnipressor goes so far above and beyond your standard compressor, that I’m now able to be creative with how compression can really enhance tracks and mixes. It’s a go to unit for me on just about everything.”
Saul Zonana
Musician, Multi-instrumentalist, Producer, Engineer
Features:
- Dynamics Processing— capable of creating otherworldly sounds
- Dynamic Reversal— the first of its kind, soft signals come out loud and loud signals come out quiet, simulating tape reversal, a near unique attribute of this versatile compressor
- Function Control— sets a ratio over a continuous range allowing extreme expansion, to infinite compression, and is even able to push further into dynamic reversal
- Variable Controlof attack and release time
- Variable Controlof maximum gain and maximum attenuation
- Gating— amplitudes of signals that fall below a set threshold are ‘squooshed’
- Expansion— widen a signal’s dynamic range, louder gets louder, softer gets softer
- Compressionoffers variable control of compression ratio
- Infinite Compression— if you want everything to come out at the same level, this is the feature for you
- Limiting— a fast, versatile limiter, useful for maintaining a loud sound
- Intuitive Interface— clean and easy to operate
Original Data Sheet from 1974 illustrating some of the “unusual” capabilities of the Omnipressor.