1176 Peak Limiter

The 1176 Peak Limiter is an audio compressor introduced by UREI in 1967. Derived from the company's earlier 175 and 176 vacuum tube-based compressors, it marked the transition from tube to solid-state technology.

The limiter featured Class A amplifiers, input and output transformers, fast attack and release times, and different compression ratios and modes. The 2019 book Innovation in Music states that the 1176 was immediately appreciated by engineers and producers and established as a studio standard through the years. At the time of its introduction, it was an early studio peak limiter to use all-solid-state circuitry, built around a then-newly invented field-effect transistor (FET) as its gain-reduction element.

The 1176LN was inducted into the TECnology Hall of Fame in 2008.