🆓 Analog Obsession releases LAEA FREE vintage optical compressor emulation

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PETER’S TAKE: If you’re not familiar with indie developer Analog Obsession, he’s on Patreon and makes high-quality effects free plugins and has, deservedly, built quite a following. This is an  LA-3A emulation which is suitable for drums, guitar, and vocals. If you’re looking for excellent free effects plugins, Analog Obsession should be on your shortlist. Of course, if you find these tools valuable, be sure to support the developer. He’s using resources and time that isn’t free, and if you want to see these effects updated, it’s the best way to ensure that will happen.

Solid-State Optical Compressor

FEATURES

– REDUCTION : Will set gain reduction

– GAIN : Clean output

– LIM : Will set compressor mode to limiter

– HPF : Engage side-chain high pass filter

– EXT : Engage external side-chain

– I/O : Bypass

(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 – 20.3.2026

– Initial Release

Available Formats

VST3 / AU / AAX Native – Audiosuite | Mac 10.11 or Higher | Intel / Apple Silicon

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[jeff (jeffdrawscomics)]

Nice! I’ve been looking for a free LA3A compressor. I have the purified version. Looking forward to this.

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[jude77]

I’m glad to see you give this guy a shout-out.  He has a ton of plugins that really do sound good.  If you want to support him, but don’t want to go the full patreon route, you can also just make a donation of any amount you choose.

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On jude77 said

I’m glad to see you give this guy a shout-out.  He has a ton of plugins that really do sound good.  If you want to support him, but don’t want to go the full patreon route, you can also just make a donation of any amount you choose.

I’ve been recommending Analog Obsession for a long time. They’re included in the LinkedMusicians Curated List of Best Free Effects Plugins.

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