Stam Audio SA4000+

Jesus Christ it's that damn good. I wish it had a frequency knob for sidechain filter but that's about it. I tried it against my favourite plugin The Glue and this thing beats it like 10-1, which I personally didn't want it to. I was expecting no big deal maybe a little better but holy ******* s hit its incredible.

Have to give it a perfect score. Sounds exactly like what you'd expect, easy to use and priced very well. I have two of them. If you're using the plugin version of this all the time the hardware version will be just a little sweeter sounding. Very worth the price of admission if you're going to use it on entire mixes or groups. Yes there's a wait time, I think Josh has done everything one would expect in dealing with wait times. Just know there's a wait going in and it's no big deal.

Bought it used as the offer was too good. This thing sounds really good. Never used a grey 384, but several new SSLs and the Stam stands tall and proud. I realized it had an issue with the detector circuit and got it repaired by the European tech in France with Joshua paying. Now it's running perfect. What sets this apart the most from software is the low end. It just gets solidified and glued together and is kept in place beautifully. The trannies are subtle, but definitely a "betterizer". A keeper for sure.