Retro Sta-Level

The Official Plugin

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$49.99 USD

"I can’t imagine a better collaboration than the greatest analog / tube current gear manufacturer on the planet, Retro Instruments, and a plugin company that can truly capture the essence of the Iron, tubes, and analog path, in only the way Kazrog can. What they’ve come up with is truly stunning, I’m using this Sta-Level plugin all over the place.” 

- David Kalmusky

Producer / Songwriter / Musician / Engineer
Shawn Mendes, Joss Stone, Justin Bieber, Keith Urban, Motley Crue, Carrie Underwood, John Legend, Journey, Keb Mo, Mickey Guyton. 

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Iconic Tube Compression

Retro Sta-Level gives you:

✔️ The only official plugin version of the Retro Sta-Level hardware, officially endorsed by Phil Moore of Retro Instruments.

✔️ Modern Mode - emulates a Retro Sta-Level Gold Edition, the definitive modern, deluxe made in USA, all-tube recreation of the classic design from 1956.

✔️ Vintage Mode - emulates an original Gates Sta-Level from Devin Powers' collection, modded by Phil Moore of Retro Instruments to offer the full feature set of the Retro Sta-Level for a vintage, mid focused, harmonically rich alternate voicing.

✔️ Workflow enhancements such as sidechain HPF/LPF, wet/dry blend, and Analog Entropy (adjustable component tolerance drift modeling.)

✔️ 100 pro presets from industry legends like Michael Brauer, Ross Hogarth, David Kalmusky + many more (including new presets added in future free updates.)

The Long-Awaited Official Retro-Sta Level plugin is here.

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What makes Kazrog one of the biggest no-brainer choices in all of audio?

Retro Sta-Level

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Retro Sta-Level

Retro Sta-Level

$39.99 USD Sale Save $40.00 USD
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Retro Sta-Level is an official emulation of the hardware, developed by Kazrog in close collaboration with Retro Instruments. Noted for its musicality, the Retro Sta-Level easily achieves a "larger than life" signature sound when dynamically processing individual instruments and vocals. Professional music producers and engineers all over the world admire and rely on the Retro Sta-Level for the euphonic qualities it brings instantly to any sound source.

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Customer Reviews

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Marcin
STA-Level – the name doesn’t lie :)

I try not to drown in the multitude of plugins, so I made a strict selection, keeping only the tools that let me achieve concrete, audible, and predictable results. I mainly work with acoustic sounds, so the quality of the virtual signal chain matters a lot. This is one of those compressors I reach for in every session.

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stephen n.
SO TRANSPARENT

i’ve used this on everything including the mixbus but it really shines on vocals. whatever it’s on you can sometimes push 20dB of gain reduction before you even hear the compression. i don’t know how they did it.. but they did it with this one.

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Darren N.
Great emulation!

Sounds great just from turning it on! Also works well on a lot of different
sources.

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Roland C.
Has that special sonic "thing"

Sounds most like hardware; whis is why I spent money again to purchase this version by Kazrog and deleted my other one I recently purchased from another company.
It has that special sonic "thing" that is lacking in other recreations of this famous hardware compressor. I am satisfied with my purchase, and the money spent !

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KB
Surprisingly smooth!

Still learning how it sounds on different tracks, buses, and sends. So far, I'm loving it. Like the sauce sez, "I put the sh*% on everything...".