Universal Audio Teletronix LA-2A Studio Compressor

The legendary optical tube limiter that shaped countless classic recordings is now available as a pedalboard-ready studio compressor. The Teletronix LA-2A Studio Compressor faithfully recreates the hand-wired hardware that made history, bringing all the inspiring tone and classic feel directly to your feet.

This pedal excels at enhancing ringing clean tones and single-note guitar lines, while adding remarkable focus to bass, synths, and keys in ways no other compressor can match. You get all the big, three-dimensional sound of the original hardware — complete with its transformers, tubes, and T4 optical cell distortions — right on your pedalboard.

The tube thickening capabilities alone make this pedal worthwhile, easily pushing your already-cooking tube amp into juicy overdrive that’s full of harmonics and colour, even without engaging the compression. Built for years of trouble-free performance, the LA-2A features switchable true/buffer bypass, a Stock/Fast switch for quicker attack time, and a Mix control for easy parallel compression, giving you legendary limiting effects for decades to come.