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Evertone Compressor Black Friday pricing from Evertone Project is $76.45, 45% off, until Nov 30, 2026.
Evertone Compressor v2 is a compressor plugin built on the physical law F=ma (force = mass × acceleration). It is the second generation of the plugin, with the internal DSP completely refactored.
The maker says it keeps the V1 habit of following envelopes musically without crushing transients. It is meant for the master bus, a vocal bus, and the recording floor or stage.
The engine treats the audio signal as mass and applies acceleration to the conversion into electrical energy. The maker says this gives compression and recovery that conventional tools do not.
Its reasoning: a microphone partly attenuates or loses a signal's original transient acceleration, which leads to a flat sound image, peak-frequency build-ups and masking.
Four physics modes set the acceleration character:
In the F=ma controls, FORCE runs from 0.1 to 100.0 and DAMPING from 1 to 10000. The maker's recommended starting point for a purely physical response is FORCE 1.00, DAMPING 1, HOLD 0.
At a DAMPING of 1 you get normal recovery. At 10000 the recovery can overshoot its starting point, like a high-bounce rubber ball thrown at a hard floor.
HiDEF is the new precision mode in v2. It unlocks X8 oversampling and a higher-precision gain-curve calculation in the physics engine.
The maker says it suits mastering and works well with DRY/WET operation. With HiDEF on, envelope tracking is smoother and perceived distortion is lower.
With HiDEF off, behaviour matches V1 and the CPU load stays light. A new insert defaults to on, and V1 sessions open with it off. It can only be switched while playback is stopped.
Oversampling comes in two settings. X4 is available whether HiDEF is on or off. X8 needs HiDEF on and adds only a very small amount of latency, which is reported to your DAW's PDC so phase alignment with other tracks holds.
The main compressor controls and their ranges:
Release has two characters. BOX is a mechanical, tight release, which the maker points to for tight kicks. AIR is open and breathing, so the natural tail of the source rings on, as on an open snare.
EXTREME mode stretches the range. FORCE goes up to 200, DAMPING to 20000, and a second switch under RANGE lifts gain reduction from 40 dB to 80 dB.
The AUTO functions analyse the source and suggest settings: AUTO THRESHOLD, INTELLIGENCE AUTO (which can also adjust RATIO) and AUTO GAIN.
Yes. The Evertone Compressor v2 Black Friday deal takes 45% off this compressor plugin from Evertone Project, which brings it to $76.45. The deal runs until Nov 30, 2026.
HiDEF is a precision mode that unlocks X8 oversampling and higher-precision gain-curve calculation in the physics engine. The maker says it gives smoother envelope tracking and less perceived distortion. It can only be switched while playback is stopped.
Yes. When a V1 session opens, HiDEF switches off automatically, so the plugin behaves as V1 did. Light CPU load comes with that setting. A new insert of v2 starts with HiDEF on instead.
BOX is a mechanical, tight-feeling release, which the maker suggests for tight kicks. AIR is an open, breathing release that keeps the air around a sound and lets the natural tail ring on, for example on an open snare.
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