The Boz Digital +10db Bundle is a channel strip plug in bundle meticulously modeled after one of the industries most iconic hardware compressors. Unless you refuse to listen to any music after Beethoven, you most certainly have heard this unit in action. Best yet, this is the first time this hardware unit has been available in plugin format.
+10db is the first of itβs kind channel strip plugin. This plug in is modeled after a very highly sought after compressor hardware unit. We didnβt just use the hardware unit for inspiration, we dug in deep and made sure that it sounded just like the original.
+10dB Compressor
Hereβs the deal. It seems like everybody is modeling hardware these days, but Boz wanted to do something a little different. They didnβt want to model any hardware units that have been done a million times. They wanted to do something that had never been done before but has been an icon in the recording industry, and the only way to do that was to team up with producer/mixer David Bendeth. He just happened to have a few of these in his rack, so he sent us one to pour over.
Unless you stopped listening to music after βJohnny B Goodeβ then you have most definitely heard this hardware unit many many times. Think of Led Zeppelin drums.
In order to get this same compressor in hardware, not only would you have to pay over $2,000, but youβd have to deal with all the other drawbacks of using analog hardware. For a very small fraction of the price, you can get that same sound in the much more convenient software format. There are really no downsides (unless you live in Alaska an need a room heater).
+10dB Equalizer
This EQ takes a different approach to equalization than your standard digital EQ. Instead of the standard series configuration, this EQ uses a parallel configuration, which makes for some very interesting effects, especially for bands that are close together. You will notice that you can use more extreme boost and cut settings without going into that harsh realm.
And of course, in order to preserve the spectral integrity of analog filters, there are no digital pre-warping tricks. Instead, each filter has a nice symmetric frequency response all the way up to Nyquist frequency, giving it a much more natural and musical response in the high frequencies.
The layout of this EQ makes you work with a different part of your brain than the standard parametric EQ. Working with this EQ definitely opens up the creative side of the brain, which can open up entirely new creative possibilities.
A few extra features
Since they werenβt bound by the limits of the analog hardware, Boz took the liberty of adding a couple features that make this even more powerful than the original hardware. For one, they added a βDry Passthroughβ knob that makes parallel compression super easy, without having to set up extra buses.





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