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Important: For hygiene and software licensing reasons, some items are only eligible for our Money Back Guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging with all software still "unregistered." Details of exclusions are shown within the product descriptions. Products include:
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This table provides an overview of your statutory consumer rights, compared with our standard returns policy and optional extended money back guarantee and warranty.
| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 30 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
We are unable to accept returns of any custom made items designed to work together as a unique package and some items are only eligible for money back guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging. For full information on our returns policy, please refer to our returns and refunds information guide.
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Key Features
The Apogee Opto-3A is an immaculate plug-in recreation of a vintage optical hardware compressor. Featuring the same classic two-dial interface, the Opto-3A is the perfect compressor plug-in for producers, mixing and even mastering engineers. Boasting an exact sonic performance, the Apogee Opto-3A is transparent and seamless, allowing you to process multiple tracks simultaneously or even entire mixes to extreme degrees without affecting the tone of your audio.
Going beyond what was possible with hardware outboard equipment, the Opto-3A features an extended high-frequency emphasis functionality, to alter the dynamics of your high-end in more detail. Additionally, a high-pass side-chain allows you to tailor the response of your compressor to other tracks within your mix for a clean low-end as well as a mix dial to fine-tune the amount of wet and dry processing in your audio.
Product Ref: 219564
In any session, the first processor you will reach for when mixing down tracks is the compressor. It's the beating heart of all studios that allows you to make your tracks cohesive and 'glued' together. It's therefore vital that you have an array of world-class compressors at your disposal and this is exactly what the Opto-3A is. Whether it's a single vocal track, multiple guitar layers or even an entire mix, the natural transparency and ultra-low distortion of the Opto-3A make it the ideal studio compressor. A jack of all trades, master of everything!
Run a clean recorded vocal through it to add harmonic saturation and colour that will take your dry sound to mix ready instantly, or run an electric bass guitar through to tame the wide range of dynamics to keep your playing consistent and powerful or even try it with drum shells to tame transients or add a huge amount of impact and punch.
An optical compressor is the most common compressor type, using a light element and optical cell to alter the dynamics of your audio. Simply put, it's a very fast and responsive compressor type that's ideal for the studio. The Opto-3A harnesses the true power of vintage hardware optical compressors to deliver authentic dynamic performance. With only two dials, it's a simple and easy compressor to understand that allows you to get the sound you want quickly, without worrying too much about fine-tuning several parameters.
The Apogee Opto-3A features the trademark slow attack and release times of the hardware counterpart, making it perfect for large instrument busses, vocal groups or even on a master bus to process every track simultaneously. Using it on your mastering chain is ideal due to the extremely low distortion character and ultra-transparent compression artefacts. Whilst even under extreme settings, the 3A remains transparent, compressing only the dynamics of your audio and being careful not to completely alter the tone of your audio.
