Compression with attitude for guitars, vocals, and drums.

The Teletronix LA‑3A compressor is an iconic “secret weapon” limiter, famous for pushing sounds right to the front of your speakers with a unique, aggressive character.

Modeled from a unit in UA’s vintage collection, the Teletronix LA‑3A Audio Leveler plug-in gives you all the tone and pugnacious dynamics control of the rare hardware.

Key Features

• Get the unique tone of the definitive solid-state optical compressor
• Add energy and harmonics to vocals and acoustic guitars
• Inject grit and texture to bass guitar and soft synths
• Punch up your drums using the HF Emphasis sidechain filter and parallel Dry/Wet Mix

Get In-Your-Face Optical Compression Tones

By giving you faster limiting than the tube-driven smooth operator Teletronix LA‑2A with the clarity of the iconic solid‑state 1176, the Teletronix LA‑3A plug-in offers bold, mid‑forward compression, guaranteed to make your sounds pop.

Easily Get Pro Limiting on Drums

Use the HF Emphasis sidechain filter to punch up your drum bus with legendary LA‑3A tone, without triggering the threshold of the compressor with the kick drum. Plus, the Dry/Wet Mix control gives you quick parallel compression on a synth or piano track, seasoning your productions with legendary Teletronix LA‑3A attitude.