Vulf Compressor

A screenshot of the Vulf Compressor interface
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  • “I bought the compressor.”

    John Mayer

  • “Compression really is the salt of music mixing. It’s the ultimate tool of a mix engineer and the Vulf Compressor is a really boutique, top-shelf Himalayan pink sea salt.”

    Jack Stratton Vulfpeck, Vulfmon

  • “On the outside it may look like a Volvo, but under the hood it’s a monster truck!!”

    Michael Brauer Multi-Grammy winning mix engineer (Coldplay, John Mayer, Brazilian Girls, Bob Dylan, David Byrne, Paul McCartney)

  • “I use Vulf Compressor on pretty much every song I make. I love it for bass, drums, guitar, and keys in particular. It brings out a particular warmness that I have not found in any other compression. It makes everything so much more buttery and old-school without diminishing the quality of sound.”

    Salami Rose Joe Louis

  • “The Vulf Compressor is on every drum bus, many guitars, too many places to mention. It’s a plugin that I use on literally every mix, I love it so so much. I love your stuff so much, it’s really a huge part of my sound, and it was definitely a crucial part of this album [Snail Mail’s Lush]!”

    Jake Aron

  • “Probably every single Ableton session that I open up, whether I’m making my own music or enginering something — mastering or mixing for another artist or my own music — I put the Vulf Compressor on, usually the master.”

    Matthewdavid Musician & Co-Founder of Leaving Records

Vulf Compressor

Beastly compression, by Vulf.

Sometime around the turn of the century, an unknown Japanese DSP engineer engineered a radically weird compression algorithm for the Boss SP-303 Dr. Sample Sampler.

Years passed, and this “Vinyl Sim” compression languished in obscurity, a dark art known only to practitioners of instrumental beatmaking, producers like J Dilla and Madlib.

But then Vulfpeck’s Jack Stratton read about the compression algorithm on a forum and enlisted two friends, Devin Kerr and Rob Stenson (co-founders of Goodhertz), to bring that algorithm to life in a digital form.

But Devin did more than just bring it to life — he expanded the algorithm, fine-tuned the sound, perfected its oddity.

And now that compression is the Vulf Compressor.

Downloads 💾

Download the latest version of Vulf Compressor on the Downloads page.
Advanced Controls

Vulf Compressor has 1 page of advanced controls. Click on the image below to see the advanced page in detail. You can also read about the advanced controls in the plugin manual.

Looking for the mastering edition of Vulf Compressor? Head over to VCME.

Vulf Compressor in use