Introduced in 1971, the Omnipressor rack unit was widely used on hit records throughout the last four decades. One of our first customers was a young Brian May.
Dynamics Processor with Attitude!
Introduced in the early 1970s, the Omnipressor was the first dynamics effects processor of any kind. Invented by Eventide's founder, Richard Factor, the Omnipresssor, 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.
Factor's original design, the "white-face" Omnipressor 'featured' controls that made the unit virtually impossible to use. In fact, here's the opening paragraph of the original user's manual:
"...if you don't fondle it's controls properly it will cause you hours of confusion and tempt you to dash it against the rocks or put it in a sack and drown it."
Engineer Jon Paul was brought on board to tame the beast and the "black-face" Omnipressor was born. It has been used on hundreds of hit records throughout the last four decades and many of the original units are still in service and cherished.
The Omnipressor plug-in is a faithful emulation of the "black-face" unit and is popular among some of the world's leading producers and engineers as a dynamics-modifier with variable expressive controls of all aspects of a signal's dynamics. The Function control allows you to set compression and expansion ratios over a wide, continuous range from extreme expansion to infinite compression and beyond - dynamic reversal which reverses a sound's envelope, making loud sounds quiet and quiet sounds loud.
