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The Pawn Shop Comp is really a channel strip.
More than a compressor, the Pawn Shop Comp also has a fully adjustable tube preamp, a two-band vintage equalizer, and swappable components that give you unprecedented control of every parameter of the plugin. The PSC is a workhorse, with plenty of FET punch as well as tube smoothness. You’ll use it on everything from vocals to buses, for drum parallels and room mics, waking up lame synth parts and it’s the ultimate killer on bass.
$99.99
- Windows, Mac and Linux Compatible
- VST3, AU, AAX, LV2
- Proprietary licensing system
- Licenses include all future upgrades—you purchase once, forever.
- Compress vocals to sit perfectly in your mix.
- Add saturation, brightness and warmth with the PSC's tube preamp.
- Get huge, rich bass sounds that work on any size speaker.
- Fine tune your sounds with switchable tubes, transformers, resistors and transistors. With no electrocution!
- Super-versatile—from vintage to modern to lo-fi, the Pawn Shop does it all.
A FET Compressor
Gritty, punchy, smooth, warm. All that, and more.
An FET circuit handles virtually any compression task you throw at it — gentle to brutal, smooth to punchy, vocals to drums. Wide-range attack, release and ratio controls let you craft the compressor to the dynamics of the track.
- FET is the transistors used in some of the most beloved compressor/limiters since the late 1960s.
- Fast response and feedback detector circuit have that classic FET sound and saturation.
- Adjust the components in the circuit for different compression curves.
- Full range of attack and release settings as well as a preset library.
- Run the PSC in parallel with DRY/WET for for your own “rear” bus style.
1
Threshold
Sets where the FET circuit starts working on the signal.
2
Ratio
Wide range—from 2:1 to 50:1
3
Attack
From a very fast .1ms to 200ms.
4
Release
As fast as 8ms, as slow as 1200ms
5
Gain Reduction
Metering shows GR and how well the compression is fitting the material.
6
Manual Makeup Gain
Sets the output level by hand, when Auto Makeup is off.
7
Auto Makeup
Keeps output level steady regardless of GR amount.
8
Power
Bypasses the compressor, leaving the tube preamp in circuit.
9
Korneff Nameplate
Click it to adjust the preamp, and more.
Tube Preamp
Bypass the compressor and it’s a vintage channel strip.Tube warmth, saturation and two bands of equalization turn the PSC into a channel strip. GAIN and BIAS take it from a touch of colour through to full-out distortion — and swapping tubes and transformers changes the saturation character entirely.
- Add saturation, brightness and warmth with the tube stage.
- Two bands of vintage inductor peak EQ gives you control of bass and presence.
- Switchable tubes, transformers, resistors and transistors.
- Emulate circuits from the 1950s to right now. No electrocution.
- Exclusive OPERATING LEVEL adds yet another creative tool to the PSC.
Drive
Preamp and Bias
Preamp
Ten positions of gain into the tube stage, clean through to saturated.
Bias
Shifts the tube’s operating point — colour at the low end, breakup at the top.
Tone
Inductor Peak Equalization
Weight
Low shelf, switchable between 63 Hz and 171 Hz.
Focus
Presence band, switchable between 1.6 kHz and 2.4 kHz.
Components
Hot Swappable Fun
Tubes
Pick between 12AX7, ECC83 or 5751 for different tonalities and saturation.
Transformer
Three different transformer cores — Nickel, Steel or Iron — contour the bottom end. Great for fine tuning electric bass.
Tweak everything
Down to the components
Choose between different transistors and resistors to tailor the compressor. And play with the OPERATING LEVEL for yet another layer of crush and saturation — turn this up 3 dB on a lead vocal and see what happens.
“A nice, vibey compressor plug‑in that should please those with a penchant for tonal tweakery!”
“your ears are greeted with optimum mojo... it never takes long to find something cool”
full review at Sound on SoundPros talking about the Pawn Shop Comp 2.0
The pawn shop comp kicks all the ass. Feels like the real thing. Does exactly want I want it to do. Love it on drums. Has been getting plenty of work on recent mixes. For the price this thing is a no-brainer.
My favorite thing about the Pawn Shop Comp is just how ridiculously hard I can push it without everything falling apart. Whether I want clean, pumpy, or totally annihilated, I know PSC will deliver.
Pawn Shop Comp is full of analog colour, it has been incredible for so many instruments, especially drums. With Dan putting his amazing electronics knowledge into the tweakable elements of the plugin, it has made this such a versatile compressor for me.
The Pawn Shop Comp 2.0 works with all DAWs
Real customer reviews Pawn Shop Comp 2.0
Love this thing. Super flexible tones, movement, and color. Will probably prove indispensable from here on out. Thanks for the great customer support and for making great quality tools!!!
Great action and color. Excellent support!
Both plugins sound excellent and great support 🙂
Thought I had enough compressors but obviously not ..Korneff You had me at Demo lol
What is this sorcery? Great work guys. Had me at the talkback limiter and now this!!!
Just played with the PSC for a few minutes but I already fall in love with the sound.
Really a great tool and I just started to play with it. Since I already saw how deep u can go, I know I will need a while to learn it in and out.
But it look like its impossible to let it sound bad, u can always decide between good and even better …
On top Luke and Dan are great people to deal with.
So I really looking forward what’s next …
Korneff Plugin Licensing
Software Based
Korneff Audio uses a software-based licensing system. No USB or hardware dongles, no special drivers are needed.
Four Activations
Our plugins can be activated on up to four (4) machines at the same time.
Connections
An internet connection is required to activate our software. Internet connection required for all demos.
Software Requirements Pawn Shop Comp 2.0
Current Version: 2.2.5
Minimum System
Requirements
- Intel, AMD or Apple Silicon i5 quad core processor
- 4GB of RAM
- Mac OSX 10.14 or later
- Windows 7 & Above
- Linux minimum: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or equivalent (x86-64)
- Linux recommended: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or later, Debian 11+, Fedora 36+, or any modern distribution using glibc ≥ 2.28
- Screen res: 1024 x 768 or higher
Supported Plugin
Formats
- Mac 64bit: VST3, AU, AAX
- Windows 64bit: VST3, AAX
- Linux 64bit: VST3, LV2