Eventide Omnipressor

Launched in 1972, it was the very first dynamic control device ever made and such was the potential for mystification that the manual began thus:

“Your Omnipressor loves you and wants to be your friend. If you don’t understand it, if you don’t fondle its controls properly, it will cause you hours of confusion, and tempt you to dash it on the rocks or put it in a sack and drown it. PLEASE READ this applications section before blaming your Omnipressor for malfeasance or deviltry.”

Find more information and documentation on the Eventide website here.

Invented by Richard Factor, founder of Eventide, it introduced us to such staples as side chaining and look ahead processing: it was and is a truly revolutionary device that changed the face of recorded music forever.

It covers many bases from infinite compression to extreme expansion and, perhaps most importantly, the dynamic reversal function which allows you to increase the decay portion of a sound’s envelope while decreasing the attack. This is a very big part of this unit’s appeal and something that still sets it apart from all the Johnny come lately compressor/expanders out there. Famously used by Brian May of Queen, but don’t hold that against it, also thoroughly abused by Portishead.

Will be serviced before shipping including replacing all tantalum capacitors.