Vac Rac TSL
The Official Inward Connections Vac Rac Compressor/Limiter Plugin
Vac Rac TSL - At a Glance
✔️ The official Inward Connections emulation— Developed in close collaboration with Inward Connections and Vac Rac* builder Steve Firlotte, who worked directly with our team to capture the distinctive way the TSL's tubes bloom under program material.
✔️ Four legendary units in one plugin— Choose the TSL-5 or TSL-4 voicing (both from Devin Powers' collection) or the TSL-3 (from Ross Hogarth's personal unit), then blend in the transformerless sound of JJ Blair's original Vac Rac TLM-1.
✔️ Part compressor, part tube saturation box— Go from gentle leveling to heavy limiting with ratios from 2:1 to 12:1 and up to 40 dB of reduction, then use the THD control to drive the tube stages anywhere from subtle warmth to extreme distortion.
✔️ Built for the mix— Sidechain high-pass and low-pass filters, stereo link, mid/side processing, wet/dry mix for parallel compression, and Kazrog's Analog Entropy feature for authentic component-level variation between channels.
Vac Rac TSL - Audio Clips (Level Matched)
Hand-built tube optical compression from Inward Connections.
Now available as the official plugin.
The Vac Rac series are modern-day boutique tube limiters, hand-built by Steve Firlotte of Inward Connections. Rather than chase a single vintage design, Firlotte draws on the lineage of classic tube optical limiters while making his own tonal choices — and he worked with us directly to bring that sound to Vac Rac TSL.
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Vac Rac TSL
Vac Rac TSL
Official Inward Connections Vac Rac TSL emulation: a two-channel tube optical compressor with variable HPF sidechain, stereo link, and mid/side processing.
Mac
- macOS 10.13.x or higher required
- VST, AU, AAX (64 bit) compatible host required
- Pro Tools 12 or higher required for AAX version
- Apple M1 (or Intel i5 "Ivy Bridge") CPU or newer strongly recommended
- All Kazrog plugins are Universal Binary 2 (native support for both Apple Silicon and Intel architecture.)
Windows
- Windows 10 or higher strongly recommended
- VST or AAX (64 bit) compatible host required
- Pro Tools 12 or higher required for AAX version
- Intel i5 "Ivy Bridge" CPU or better strongly recommended
Linux
- VST3, VST2, or LV2 compatible host required.
- Tested with Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, and Manjaro. Most modern distros and hosts should work.
- 100% perpetual license for multiple devices
- no iLok authorization required
- no challenge/response keys, dongles, or license files to back up
- ZERO subscription fees EVER
- Random silent output every so often, followed by a gentle fade.
- Preset save disabled.
Demos are time-unlimited but have the above limitations. Purchasing the plugin and reinstalling via the Kazrog Plugin Manager while signed in removes these restrictions.
Trademark Notice
*Vac Rac® and Inward Connections® are trademarks of Inward Connections, Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
