Free Music Software: Audio Damage has introduced Evil Otto, an OTT compressor plugin for iOS, Linux, macOS & Windows.

Here’s what they have to say about it:

OTT (over-the-top) compression has become one of the most recognizable sounds in modern music production. If you’ve listened to anything in the EDM, pop, or hip-hop worlds in the last decade, you’ve heard it — that hyper-present, larger-than-life quality where every detail of a sound is pushed forward and nothing hides in the background.

The technique itself is straightforward: take a multiband compressor, apply downward compression to tame the peaks in each band, and simultaneously apply upward compression to boost the quiet parts. Do this across three frequency bands and you get a sound that is dense, detailed, and aggressively “right there.”

Features:

• Three-band upward + downward compression with adjustable depth and time.
• Per-band threshold and level controls.
• External sidechain input for ducking.
• Sidechain listen mode for dialing in the duck.
• Input and output gain with smooth bypass.
• Resizable UI with two color schemes.

Pricing and Availability:

Evil Otto is available now as a free download for the desktop version, and is $2.99 for the iOS version.