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Distressor, DBX 165, SSL, whatever I can spare. Blue Thumb Productions-Audio Production Facilities

...a compressor with a soft or variable knee. There must be others, but in my experience that's the dbx 165, 160x/xt/a and 560a, and the Distressor. You can also do it in PT by routing your pre to an Aux Input track with the Digital/Avid stock compressor plugin inserted (using its variable...