Baby Audio IHNY-2 Punchy Parallel Compressor with 4x Oversampling capabilities Plugin.
Unleash the Slam: Introducing IHNY-2, the Hardest Hitting Compressor You've Ever Heard
We embarked on a mission: to craft the most impactful compressor on the market, one that injects your tracks with bone-crushing power while preserving their soul. IHNY-2 achieves this through parallel compression, letting you push the boundaries without sacrificing dynamics.
Engineered for Maximum Impact:
- Modern, aggressive compression: Sculpt your sound with a potent sonic signature, perfectly suited for adding serious punch to any track.
- Parallel processing built-in: No need for complex routing – IHNY-2 streamlines parallel compression for a fast and efficient workflow.
- Surgical control: This isn't just brute force. IHNY-2 offers a range of new features for precise tweaking of your compression behavior.
Mix with Confidence:
Parallel compression is a secret weapon for achieving maximum impact in contemporary mixes. IHNY-2 takes the guesswork out of the process, offering a plug-and-play parallel workflow that seamlessly blends your dry signal with its heavily compressed counterpart.
Beyond the Features: The IHNY-2 Sound
Features are great, but a compressor lives and dies by its sonic character. IHNY-2 boasts a unique and powerful sound:
- Clinical and aggressive: A marriage of digital precision and analog-inspired warmth, with the ability to push into glorious saturation with the "Harmonics" control.
- Loud and clear: Optimized for modern genres, IHNY-2 delivers the punch you crave without sacrificing clarity.
- A touch of the 80s: Drawing inspiration from the legendary DBX units, IHNY-2 captures the "slammy" and "squashy" character of those iconic compressors, but with improved sonic fidelity.
IHNY-2 is not for the faint of heart. It's a dedicated tool designed to add explosive energy to your drums, mix buses, or even the master bus (use with caution!).
This isn't just an upgrade; it's a revolution. Experience the power of IHNY-2 and transform your mixes forever.
Preset Creators:
IHNY-2 comes loaded with 156 presets created by BABY Audio and friends of the house - including:
- Delbert Bowers (Lizzo, Icona Pop, Shawn Mendes)
- Matt Sim (Nicki Minaj, The Chainsmokers, Gucci Mane)
- M-Phazes (Eminem, Madonna, Demi Lovato)
- Preston "Prizzie" Reid (Kanye West, Alicia Keys, Muni Long)
- Rob Kleiner (Cee Lo, SIA, David Guetta, Britney Spears)
Features:
- CONFIGURATION - IHNY-2 splits the incoming audio into two duplicates. One remains untouched by the plugin (Dry track), the other is subjected to all the goodness IHNY-2 has to offer (Wet track). You balance the two signals on the vertical axis of the XY pad, while setting the compression amount of the Wet track on the horizontal axis. This allows you to operate the most important controls of the plugin in just one motion and find the sweet spot fast. IHNY-2 has an autogain algorithm working unde
- TWEAK PANEL - IHNY-2 is meant to be as fast and intuitive as its predecessor. But if you need to go deeper, the Tweak Panel gives you full control over the compressor. Here, you’ll find a number of new features that weren’t included in V1.
- Attack + Release - Sets how fast the compressor engages and disengages.
- Ratio - Sets the compression intensity from mild to aggressive.
- Punch - Heavy compression tends to suck the transients out of a signal. The Punch control works to emphasize attack transients in the compressed track, helping it cut through even at very high compression levels.
- Harmonics - Imagine a saturator that behaves like a compressor – that’s Harmonics. This feature introduces harmonic saturation controlled by the gain-reduction, meaning more compressed parts get saturated harder.
- Shape - Adds our custom ‘smiley EQ curve’ to bring out the lows and highs and make the compressed signal more present. (The smiley EQ curve is what sets “New York Compression” apart from regular parallel compression. IHNY-2 can do both).
- Tilt - Makes the compressor work harder on either the low or high end of your signal – which can be useful for controlling bass heavy material and letting the high end breathe (or vice versa).
- Lo + Hi Preserve - Prevents the low and high frequencies from being compressed above/below the cutoff points. This is a great way to preserve the kick while squashing the rest of your drum bus.
- Oversampling: Run the plugin in 1x, 2x or 4x oversampling modes. (We recommend 1x for better CPU performance).
- Solo: Monitor the wet signal in solo. Useful for finetuning – or for using IHNY-2 as a regular insert compressor.
- Tooltips: Turn on to get explanations of each parameter as you use the plugin.
- Save As Default: Save your own default preset, which will load whenever you open a new instance of IHNY-2.
- Reset To Default: Reset the plugin to your default preset.
- Baby Audio Logo: Bypass the plugin.
- Resize Icon: Resize the plugin.
- - Cmd+Click: Slows down mouse movement in the Tweak Panel for finetuning purposes.
- - Ctrl+Click on XY Pad Node: Horizontal movement only.
- - Alt (Cmd) + Click on XY Pad Node: Vertical movement only.
- - Double Click: Resets any parameter to its default value.
Tech Specs:
MAC
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OS X MacOS 10.7 and up (including Native M1 Compatibility)
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Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AU, AAX
WINDOWS
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Windows Windows 7 and up
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Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AAX
