The word “iconic” gets thrown around pretty loosely in the world of vintage pro audio, where nearly every analog dynamics processor made before 1979 is attended to like a holy relic.

It’s been a crazy month, and we’ve received a lot of emails from folks asking for a little more time as paychecks and income from sessions come in. (We’ve been inundated- if you haven’t been replied to yet, please know you will be!)

In the meantime, we’ve found a temporary solution we hope will work for everybody. Our projected price increases, as stated in our last newsletter, will be cut in half for the month of August. Come September, we’ll raise them to the full amount in our projected price list. We’re hoping this gives a little extra time to everyone who needs it. We truly are trying our best to meet all of you where we can, and keep bringing you kickass gear.

As a reminder: we now have small shipping costs added for our US customers starting this month. They range from $7.50 to $25 based on product size and weight. Those may eventually have to go up as well, but we are starting as small as we can.

Below is the updated base pricing for August only…

UPDATED: 07/25/2025

As many of you have heard by now, we are looking at an across-the-board price increase for our products. Over the years, we have truly tried to keep our prices as low as humanly possible, even as costs have steadily increased. (A lot of our products are still at 2016-2019 pricing, if not lower in some cases.) In today’s climate, with just about everything under the sun increasing in cost, it simply isn’t sustainable (or responsible) to keep them at the same pricing. These increases will take effect August 1st.

The LA-2A was built on the bones of an earlier design utilizing a unique optical attenuator created by Jim Lawrence, founder of the Teletronix Engineering Company. In the late 1950’s Lawrence wanted to build an audio “leveler” that would ride the gain automatically during radio broadcasts.

Technology and music have always followed along with each another, with each inspiring the other to push beyond the boundaries. But despite that, the classics still remain for a reason, and the 1176 style compressor is one of them.