Rupert Neve Designs just dropped a serious piece of gear for studio nerds, immediately combining two totally different compression styles into one box called the OptoFET. This unit jams optical and FET circuits into a single hardware device while letting people stack them one after the other or split them across specific frequency ranges.
The 1U rack device gives each compressor independent knobs for messing with attack, release, threshold, and makeup gain. There are also parallel blend options alongside high-pass filters on the sidechain. The optical side gets a harmonic mode dubbed Grit, while the FET side sports a Bloom setting.
Users can run Dual Stage mode to put circuits in a sequence for heavy envelope shaping or light vocal control. A toggle switch swaps the signal chain order. They also threw in a Dual Band function that assigns low or high frequencies to each compressor using a crossover point between 50 and 500 Hz.
It is a mono unit but comes with 31-step detented pots which help match settings if someone buys a second one for stereo. Costs are sitting around 1799 Euros or 1858.80 pounds with tax added.
The 1U rack device gives each compressor independent knobs for messing with attack, release, threshold, and makeup gain. There are also parallel blend options alongside high-pass filters on the sidechain. The optical side gets a harmonic mode dubbed Grit, while the FET side sports a Bloom setting.
Users can run Dual Stage mode to put circuits in a sequence for heavy envelope shaping or light vocal control. A toggle switch swaps the signal chain order. They also threw in a Dual Band function that assigns low or high frequencies to each compressor using a crossover point between 50 and 500 Hz.
It is a mono unit but comes with 31-step detented pots which help match settings if someone buys a second one for stereo. Costs are sitting around 1799 Euros or 1858.80 pounds with tax added.
