A community member pointed us at a post on Gil Griffith's Facebook wall where he has updated his profile picture with a small teaser image of a plug-in version of Empirical Labs Distressor, with a link that takes you to a thread on Gearslutz where Dave Derr, who describes himself as 'Distressor's Daddy', has announced an official plug-in version of Distressor to be shown for the first time at Winter NAMM in January 2016. David Derr said....

"We started conceptualising the plugin 5 years ago, and have been working hard on it for the last 3 years and have spent oodles of money developing & testing it. So it will be an expensive plugin, but we are going to offer some amazing incentives, and I dare say, I don't think anyone will regret spending the money, especially compared to what similar hardware costs, and especially with the feature set and ease of use this little gal offers. The price to be announced in a couple of weeks.
We created a new division called Empirical Labs Digital Inc which designed this software, and will also do future plugins. You have to have a good math guy to do the DSP that makes "pretty" digital audio. We have a great coder, and I love him because he is a perfectionist also, as well as a musician. But there is no such thing as perfect, and trying to attain it comes at a very high price.
I was lucky to have worked for many years at Eventide, and have always loved digital technology. It's very comfortable for me and I love that some stuff you do in digital is soOOoo easy, but impossible in Analog. And of course, some stuff in analog is almost effortless, but impossible in current digital audio. For instance, the hardware Distressor passes 200KHz. That just isn't going to happen in current digital technology, even at the highest sampling rates. But I say Viva La Difference! Take the best of both worlds".​

We understand it will be a Native plug-in supporting all the usual formats like AAX, VST and AU.
Are you looking forward to this? What price would you pay for an official Distressor plug-in?

 

I'm currently using Sknote.it Disto. It would be so interesting doing a compares.

 

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Yes, I haven't tried Disto but I have read really good things about it. It will be interesting to see the comparisons.

 

It was basically ready to be launched, but then the iLok was cracked and they've put it on hold while they figure out how they can protect it.

So it might be a little while before it appears...

I have the UAD Fatso for a little Empirical flavour...

 

Cool! Sold my uad card (Fatso included) recently so a new replacement shouldn't be that bad. :-P

 

A most have for sure

 

You should also Try SOR8

Pretty nice emulation

 

Anybody tried the Sly-Fi Deflector version? I know it is iLok protected, let's not start that discussion again.

 

the deflector seems to be very nice, made by the same guy from kush audio

 

This would be nice to try I hope its not stupid ilok thanks for the info

i Don't Know Why WAVES Has Not Made a Distressor Plugin you would think that it would have been on the Top of there list of Plugins to do

 

Last edited: Jan 26, 2016

Exactly. Seems to be a very nice plug-in. Just like anything else he touches, by the way.

 

Well, they will only do it if it will look like a Distressor, and can be branded as "Distressor", both trade marks that Dave Derr owns, and seeing as he's doing his own, he's hardly likely to agree to let Waves do it as well, is he?

 

In that case, we will do him.

 

Last edited: Feb 2, 2016

100 Eu if it's half as useful as waves cla 76

 

http://www.empiricallabs.com/arousor.html



can't seem to find a price or a way to buy it, but there is a demo download available

 

Yep...looks like they want you to try the demo to get the bugs out before they start taking money from people. I think we call that beta testers...

 

UAD Fatso is awesome.....Deflector is nice also

 

AudioUTOPIA - are you listening

 

From what I know, this plugin will cost about 350$... that's pretty high IMO.

 

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