Boz Digital Labs The Hoser XT And +10db Bundle

With the Hoser XT and +10db bundle you will have all you need in the way of meticulously modelled analogue equalisation and compression.

The Hoser XT takes a classic hardware equaliser and places it firmly in the digital realm providing the incredibly smooth sound of the original unit but with all the bells and whistles that only software can deliver.

The +10db bundle includes two of the industry's most iconic hardware units, a compressor and an EQ, both of which have been heard on countless recordings since their inception. These are available individually and as a single channel strip for your convenience.

The Hoser XT

The second in the series of David Bendeth signature plugins. Modelled on a Ward-Beck Systems M462B hardware EQ unit, The Hoser makes a great channel EQ to give that cohesive feel to your mixes.

The Hoser takes advantage of some of the benefits of working in the digital domain, all while staying true to the analogue sound. It is really the best of both worlds.

When you buy Hoser XT, you get its little brother, The Hoser, for free.

Analog Sound – CPU Friendly

When Boz Digital Labs built The Hoser, they had two objectives:

• It must sound just like the hardware
• You should be able to use this plugin on every track without worrying about your CPU overheating.

After much trial and error, they finally accomplished this. The plugin stays true to the analogue sound, allowing you to add extreme amounts of gain without adding the harshness of digital EQ. It does all this while using small amounts of processing power, to preserve your CPU for other plugins. It’s really the best of both worlds.

3 Channel Modes

While they were using the hardware, they couldn’t help but wish that they could use it in a mid/side configuration. It was just begging for it. So what was stopping Boz Digital Labs from making the plugin work in mid/side mode? Nothing, that’s what.

You can also process your left and right channels separately, which is a great way to add some stereo width to a mono track or match the tone of a stereo source.

The Hoser vs The Hoser XT

When you buy The Hoser XT, The Hoser also comes with your download, but what is the difference?

The Hoxer XT

• Separate Mid/Side and stereo control, as well as standard stereo/mono mode
• Comes with The Hoser

The Hoser

• More compact design
• Stereo/mono mode only

Learn more about The Hoser XT.

+10db Bundle V2

+10db is a channel strip plugin meticulously modelled after one of the industry's most iconic hardware compressors. Unless you refuse to listen to any music after Beethoven, you most certainly have heard this unit in action. Best yet, this is the first time this hardware unit has been available in plugin format.

Why model this unit?

Here’s the deal. It seems like everybody is modelling hardware these days, but Boz Digital Labs wanted to do something a little different. They didn’t want to model any hardware units that have been done a million times. They wanted to do something that had never been done before but has been an icon in the recording industry, and the only way to do that was to team up with producer/mixer David Bendeth. He just happened to have a few of these in his rack, so he sent them one to pore over.

Unless you stopped listening to music after “Johnny B Goode” then you have most definitely heard this hardware unit many many times. Think of Led Zeppelin drums.

In order to get this same compressor in hardware, not only would you have to pay over $2,000, but you’d have to deal with all the other drawbacks of using analogue hardware. For a very small fraction of the price, you can get that same sound in a much more convenient software format. There are really no downsides (unless you live in Alaska and need a room heater).

A few extra features

Since they weren’t bound by the limits of the analogue hardware, they took the liberty of adding a couple of features that make this even more powerful than the original hardware. For one, they added a “Dry Passthrough” knob that makes parallel compression super easy, without having to set up extra buses.

3 Plugins in 1

When you buy the +10db bundle, you actually walk away with three separate plugins:

• +10db Compressor
• +10db Equaliser
• +10db Channel Strip

 +10db Compressor

+10db Compressor is meticulously modelled after one of the industry's most iconic hardware compressors.

+10db Equaliser

+10db Equaliser is meticulously modelled after the EQ section of a very highly sought after hardware channel strip. +10db Equaliser takes the EQ section from the +10db Channel strip plugin and puts it in a dedicated plugin. This plugin faithfully recreates the curves and subtleties of this hardware equaliser unit.

What is so special about this EQ?

This EQ takes a different approach to equalization than your standard digital EQ. Instead of the standard series configuration, this EQ uses a parallel configuration, which makes for some very interesting effects, especially for bands that are close together. You will notice that you can use more extreme boost and cut settings without going into that harsh realm.

And of course, in order to preserve the spectral integrity of analogue filters, there are no digital pre-warping tricks. Instead, each filter has a nice symmetric frequency response all the way up to Nyquist frequency, giving it a much more natural and musical response in the high frequencies.

The layout of this EQ makes you work with a different part of your brain than the standard parametric EQ. Working with this EQ definitely opens up the creative side of your brain, which can open up entirely new creative possibilities.

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System Requirements

Available Formats:

• Windows (32/64): VST2, VST3, RTAS, AAX Native
• Mac (32/64): AU, VST2, VST3, RTAS, AAX Native