API 2500 Bus Compressor

The Finest API 2500 Emulation

The API 2500 Bus Compressor is a permanent fixture on the stereo bus of many of the world's top engineers and producers. Considered the best of the Paul Wolff-era API circuit designs, this famed compressor adds energy, movement, and tone to stereo mixes and subgroups unlike any other compressor.

The API 2500 Bus Compressor plug-in for UAD-2 hardware and Apollo interfaces is a spot-on emulation of this classic compressor, capturing its all-discrete signal path with Thrust® circuitry - and features a fanatically detailed modeling of API's custom transformers and 2510 and 2520 op amps.

Features

• Use any audio interface, with both UAD Native and Apollo Realtime/UAD-2 versions included

• Glue together your stereo mixes and subgroups with the world’s finest circuit emulation of the iconic API 2500 compressor

• Punch up low frequencies with API's patented Thrust technology

• Select between "Old” and "New” compression, with feedback or feed-forward sounds

• Contour your mix's stereo interaction with percent-based L/R Link controls

• Sharpen your workflow with plug-in-only Mix and Headroom controls

• Mix with artist presets from Jeff Balding (Faith Hill), Vance Powell (Jack White), Ryan Hewitt (Red Hot Chili Peppers), and more

Mac

• macOS Catalina 10.15 or higher
• Intel or Apple Silicon processor

Windows

• Windows 10 or higher
• 64 bit