HoRNet HCS1 is the faithful recreation of a very famous guitar pedal effect that has been produced from mid seventies to mid eighties, it’s designed to give more sustain to your guitar, and it does it acting like a compressor. The plugin recreates the peculiar effect the pedal has on the dynamics and give you that particular sound, made famous by guitarist al over the world, in your computer. This specific compressor has a fixed threshold and it acts for signal that are both above and below that threshold, in fact if the input of the circuit is very low (like a note that is naturally decaying) the internal volume gets boosted a lot, while if the signal is above threshold (like the initial pick of a note) it gets gradually decreased. This kind of action is very particular and differs from the classic compressor used in audio, the result is a very distinctive sound that works magically on guitar, but it’s also very interesting on other sources (like keyboards or drums).
