TheBus
No clone, no variant! Fully custom!
TheBus is my own custom compressor with well-known UI. It's usable with any source. Not only busses!
Soft character and knee with linear frequency response. Especially, great from drums, percussions, choirs or anything needs glue!
FEATURES
- ATTACK : Fast to slow. 0.1ms, 10ms, 30ms
- RELEASE : Fast to slow. 50ms, 400ms, 800ms
- THRESHOLD : Will set compression. You can simply combine it with INPUT and get smooth leveling or heavily saturated compression.
- SC FILTER : HPF filter up to 500Hz.
- OUTPUT : Clean output volume control.
- EXT SC : Will engage external side-chain.
- MIX : Will blend wet and dry signals.
(No oversampling. Embedded light-weight anti-aliasing)
Resizable interface. Simple "Bottom Right Corner Handle" to resize. 50% to 200%.
*Resizing Tip: When you duplicate plug-in, it will remember current state of GUI size. But if you load new instance, it will be opened at default size. To get rid of this issue, simply follow these steps;
1. Open plug-in for the first time
2. Resize GUI according to your screen resolution or you liking before setting any knobs
3. Save this state as default preset with your DAW
Now, you will be able to load new instances with same size.
(If you want to go default size, simply double click to resize handle.)
Version 1.0 - 7.7.2026 - Initial Release
Available Formats
VST3 / AU / AAX Native - Audiosuite | Mac 10.11 or Higher | Intel / Apple Silicon
VST3 / AAX Native - Audiosuite | Windows 10 - 11
Mac Versions require a graphic card that supports “Metal”
Windows Versions require a graphic card that supports “OpenGL”
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Comments (22)
Wowwww... I love this one. The compression is very natural and the saturation when you really dial it up is incredible sounding!
Windows 11: If Analog Obsession plugins, such as The Bus, are not working, disabling Windows SmartScreen solved the problem for me. Windows was blocking the plugin files. After disabling SmartScreen, the plugins work properly.
I am a Central European electronic music producer, and alongside my day job, I have been making music professionally and independently for decades. Throughout my career, my financial circumstances did not allow me to invest in very expensive hardware or proprietary DSP systems. We used the TC PowerCore back in the day, but I never really liked having to rely on additional hardware connected to the computer. I always hoped that one day comparable quality would become available through truly native plugins. That is why I consider the release of a freemium plugin like The Bus such an extraordinary achievement. The quality is simply phenomenal. The console-style character, cohesion and processing remind me of the kind of SSL console sound I have always admired. My Ryzen 9 system handles The Bus beautifully, and for the first time I feel that we can achieve the kind of polished, large-scale, major-label sound that we have always aspired to — without expensive DSP hardware or proprietary systems. Thank you very much for making this level of processing accessible to producers like me. It genuinely makes a difference.
Közép-európai elektronikus zenei producer vagyok, és a civil munkám mellett évtizedek óta foglalkozom zenével. Mindig is korlátozottak voltak a lehetőségeim arra, hogy nagyon drága hardvereket és algoritmusokat vásároljak. Annak idején használtuk a TC PowerCore rendszert is, de soha nem szerettem a számítógéphez kötött hardveres megoldásokat. Mindig arra vártam, hogy egyszer natív plugin formájában is elérhető legyen hasonló minőség. Ezért tartom rendkívüli dolognak, hogy megszületett egy ilyen minőségű freemium plugin, mint a The Bus. Számomra valóban fenomenális az a karakter és konzolszerű összetartás, amit az algoritmus biztosít – számomra egyértelműen az SSL-konzolok világát idézi. A Ryzen 9 alapú rendszeremen ráadásul gyönyörűen teljesít, így végre olyan minőségű mixbus- és csatornafeldolgozást tudunk használni natív környezetben, amely korábban számomra lényegesen drágább hardveres vagy DSP-alapú rendszerekhez kötődött. Nagyon köszönöm, hogy ezt a minőséget ilyen formában elérhetővé tettétek. Sok olyan producer számára jelent valódi lehetőséget, akiknek korábban nem volt hozzáférésük ehhez a szintű hangzásvilághoz.
ilove
Going to be on my overheads on every mix from now on.
Hi, I really love these Plug ins. I am working in 3D Atmos. The Bus is adding some body to the instruments, like I never heard it before. Even in 3D. I tried this one, Atrractor and MUChil. And they all do somethings special. GREAT WORK! I found that a few plug ins don't exist as AAX. Would be great to have them there as we.. THANKS!
A-TONE
Some of the knobs and the VU meter don't show up in waveform 13. They're just blank black squares. Unusable.
Thank you
Amazing Plugins ! But can you guys PLEASEEEEEEEE make a noise gate plugin i really need one and I dont like using different plugins from multiple ppl if that makes sense I record in my room and Im buildong this chain and a Noise Gate/Reducer would really come in handy from you guys!!
https://www.patreon.com/analogobsession/posts/drgate-116225259 try this one...
Bravo, it's harder to impress folks with a comp today but this Beauty sounds really really good, an absolutely classic older vibe to my ear.
Greetings from Brazil
merciii
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL WHAT U DO FOR THE COMMUNITY
awesome plugin
cheers
Thanks!!
Esta muy bueno, gracias por este complemento. Queria preguntar que nivel de ratio usa el complemento a nivel interno, fuera sido genial la opción de poder configurar manualmente el ratio, el plugin esta bonito y lo mejor es que es de muy bajo consumo de cpu.
Tambien tengo esa misma duda… Sería bueno una selección de ratio o por lo menos saber cuál es el que viene por defecto.
Thanks so much for this! Assuming this works in stereo and mono situations?
