Pulsar Audio - Smasher
Aggressive Dynamic Processor
Straightforward but extreme "British mode" compression – a faithful emulation of a uniquely modified 1176. All buttons in, all the time!
Smasher is an unprecedented custom modification of the classic Urei 1176 compressor circuit, a unique formula stumbled upon while fine-tuning other algorithms.
The original 1176 compressor hardware offered a selection of four ratios, but studio engineers soon discovered that pressing them all at once led to a distorted, explosive and highly compressed sound. It’s this "All buttons in" or "British" mode that Smasher was painstakingly designed to recreate.
While remaining very close to the original circuitry, the modifications built into Smasher will add definition to transients and make your tone more aggressive. Customers love using it to enhance the ambience in drum busses, but there are many more creative uses too. Smasher won’t work on every single track, but where it does, it works magic.
Smasher excels at raw and gritty sounds, calling to mind bands like Vulfpeck, The Whitefield Brothers and The Black Keys.
Features
- A faithful emulation of a uniquely modified 1176
- Topology Preservation Technology
- Low CPU Usage
- Parallel Compression
- Linked Sidechain
“Pulsar Smasher is a rockstar when you need to give energy to tracks and have that classic 1176 all buttons in compression style! Adding this on the drum buss and having a bit of the mix knob in can add so much energy!”
John NathanielProducer | Mixing Engineer | Songwriter
System Requirements
- an iLok Dongle or iLok Cloud is required
- Host application compatible with:
- AAX Native plugins
- VST plugins
- VST3 plugins
- CPU:Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 / i9 / Xeon or AMD Quad-Core minimum
- Memory: 4 GB RAM and 1 GB free disk space
- Operating System: Windows 7 with SP1 64 bit, Windows 8.1 64 bit, Windows 10 64-bit
- GPU: OpengGL 2.0 compatible GPU
- Monitor: Resolution: minimum 1024×768, recommended 1920×1080 ; Refresh rate: 60 Hz
- AAX Native (Windows: 32/64 bit), Audio Unit (64 bits only), VST 2.4 (Windows: 32/64 bit), VST 3 (Windows: 32/64 bit) compatible host DAW.
- Host application compatible with:
- AAX Native plugins
- Audio-Unit plugins
- VST plugins
- VST3 plugins
- CPU: Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 / Xeon / Apple Silicon (M1)
- Memory: 4 GB RAM and 1 GB free disk space
- Operating System: MacOS 10.10 - MacOS 10.15
- GPU: OpengGL 2.0 compatible GPU
- Monitor: Resolution: minimum 1024×768, recommended 1920×1080 ; Refresh rate: 60 Hz
- AAX Native (64 bits only), Audio Unit (64 bits only), VST 2.4 and VST 3 compatible host DAW (64-bit only supported)