Warm AudioWA76-A Vintage-Voiced Compressor

Warm Audio WA76-A

Warm Audio's WA76-A is a single-channel, vintage-voiced discrete FET compressor, serving up fully-analog dynamics control and coloration to dutifully deliver the tone of the original 1176 compressor. Enjoy the same speedy attack and raw analog character of the compressor that helped shape modern music for multiple decades, used by studio legends like The Beatles, Bowie, and Jack White. Warm has spared no expense in achieving an accurate recreation of this classic circuit, implementing custom Cinemag input and output transformers and premium components for the authentic blue-stripe sound.

Using the WA76-A in your studio brings life to dull sounds with vintage analog saturation, and manages dynamics with snappy response to enhance vocals, drum overheads, and more. The WA76-A features the same classic controls and settings from the original 1176, with attack, release, multiple ratio modes, input level, and output level all awaiting your considerate tweaking in view of its dancing VU meter. Just like the original, the infamous "all-buttons in" mode is available, adding dramatic coloration for vintage hard-limiting techniques. Bringing this vintage unit into modern workflows, Warm has also added stereo linking functionality, dry/wet mix control, external sidechain input, and a variable sidechain high-pass filter.

Recorded music wouldn't be the same without this classic studio compressor. With the WA76-A from Warm Audio, you can hear this circuit's unrivaled vintage character for yourself, and join in on the legacy into a new musical future.

WA76-A Features

• Single-channel vintage-voiced analog compressor
• Faithful recreation of the original 1176 compressor with CineMag transformers and premium components
• Classic controls like the original: attack, release, ratio, input, output, and VU meter display
• New modern features: stereo linking, dry/wet mix, external sidechain, selectable input impedance, active or true bypass, and variable sidechain high pass filter
• "All buttons" mode accessible for hard-limiting techniques