Music, videos, games, calls in the browser — everything your computer plays runs through two glowing dual-triode tubes and a studio compressor. The tubes add warmth and rich harmonics, the compressor brings everything together and gives it punch.

The tube stage is a real circuit simulation in 64-bit: two triode stages with their resistors and capacitors, calculated sample by sample at four times the sample rate. Turn up the drive and you hear — and see — the tubes work harder: they glow brighter the more they are driven.

Two VU meters with real needle movement show the input, the output or the gain reduction.

Pick one of the ready-made settings or build your own and save it under a name. One click switches it off, and the sound goes straight to your speakers again.

• Tube preamp with drive, bias and fat
• Tone controls: bass, mid, treble and presence
• Compressor with threshold, ratio, attack, release, knee, make-up and mix
• Live compressor curve and gain-reduction meter
• Two VU meters for input, output or gain reduction
• Built-in limiter protects your ears and speakers
• Works together with jsBudbrainEqualizer and jsBudbrainsFxStudio
• Mute button, choice of speakers or headphones
• Small window that stays on top, starts at login if you like
• Light and dark design

Available in 44 languages.

Also available as .deb, RPM, Flatpak, AppImage and for Arch at www.budbrain.de

Keywords: tube amp, valve, warmth, compressor, loudness, bass boost, VU meter, music, speakers, headphones, sound enhancer

Also available as .deb, RPM, Flatpak, AppImage and for Arch at www.budbrain.de

Developed by Josef Sejrek / Budbrain Software Contact: jsbudbraincompressor@budbrain.de