SOFTUBE CHANDLER LIMITED Zener-Bender

Thanks to its close association with Abbey Road Studios, Chandler Limited is a name that’s always had a particular resonance within the pro audio community. The seminal sound and character of early rock ’n’ roll recordings were shaped by the enviable richness and punch of Chandler designs, and knowledge of that pedigree has endured. Over the past decade, Chandler Limited and Softube have become keen collaborators, offering emulations of the Germanium Compressor and individual versions of the combined plug-in reviewed here. Both the Zener Limiter dynamics processor and the Curve Bender EQ have been available for some time but, until now, the two have never been combined into a single channel strip.

The Zener-Bender fuses these two classics into a single interface. By Softube’s own admission, the idea behind this plug-in was to act as