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The Herd Black Friday deal brings the Safari Audio compressor plugin to $49, 37% off, until Nov 30, 2026. The Herd V2 packs three compressors into one plugin, and you can run all three at once.
The maker pitches it as parallel compression pushed to the extreme. It is listed here with the reverb plugins, but the facts describe a compressor.
Three compressors share the box: Opto, VCA and Devil. Each has its own character and its own on/off LED.
That lets you stack an optical squeeze under a snappy VCA grab, then switch Devil in when you want the signal to misbehave.
Shared Attack and Release keep all three compressors moving together, so the stack behaves as one unit.
Blend mixes the compressed signal back under the dry one. The maker says this lets you smash a signal for character and punch while keeping every transient.
Tone sits before the compression and shapes the character going in. In V2, this control covers a wider range than before. That is useful on a mix bus, where you may want the middle held firm while the sides stay looser.
The gain-reduction meter switches between IN, GR and OUT, so you can see how hard the compressors are working at each stage.
The maker lists these changes for the second version:
Smart Gain and Link Gain take care of level matching, so you can judge the compression without the loudness jump fooling you.
The maker recommends The Herd V2 for drums, lead vocals, bass and mix buses whenever a source needs extra energy.
On a drum bus, for example, you could run Opto and VCA together and bring Blend up until the transients come back through. Dial it in by ear and watch the GR meter while you do.
Yes. The Herd V2 by Safari Audio is 37% off for Black Friday, which brings it to $49. The offer ends Nov 30, 2026. It is a compressor plugin that combines three compressors in one box.
The Herd V2 holds three compressors: Opto, VCA and Devil, each with its own on/off LED. Around them sit shared Attack and Release, a Tone control, Mid/Side processing, IN / GR / OUT metering and a Blend control.
Yes. The maker built it so the Opto, VCA and Devil compressors run together. Shared Attack and Release keep them moving as one, and Blend rides the compressed signal back under the dry one for parallel compression.
V2 adds improved algorithms, an extended Tone control, Mid/Side processing, Smart Gain and Link Gain, A/B compare, a short-term LUFS readout and a new oversampling algorithm. It also has a redesigned interface with a new preset system.
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