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With so many plugin recreations to choose from, doing something different with such a genuine classic might be bold, but most importantly Slate Digital’s Custom Opto sets out to bring something new. In the video I use this and the other custom controls on drums so you can hear them for yourself Final Thoughts A mix control borrowed from Slate Digital's FG-2A module is also there for parallel processing, further expanding the Custom Opto's versatility.įor many fans of the classic opto compressor sound, this level of control opens up the unit’s usefulness for a wider range of sources than previous incarnations of the LA2A and its clones. The obligatory screwhead control is there for Tone tweakage. The Tone control gives us several shades to choose from which appears to filter the sidechain among other things. The Speed control gives us a single dial that sees attack and release linked, so if you set the control to “pinch” the fronts of sounds, you live with the release you get, and conversely setting the release to taste gives you a set attack. Slate Digital first alluded to their Custom Opto module being in development back in November 2020, with the final release version bringing Speed, and Tone controls, as well as a Ratio knob that replaces the original’s Limit/Compress switch to hand us exact control of the compression curve in concert with with the slightly enigmatic Peak Reduction knob which is retained. Users did not have a Ratio control, or any control of time constants. The original hardware LA2A’s controls are simple to say the least: two large controls for (output) Gain, Peak Reduction (this combines threshold and compression slope), plus limit/compress switch and meter mode knob.

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