In the first of a new series of production tips for musicians, Craig Anderton writes about how to balance audio in a mix - without the volume fader. Try it out on your next project!
Yet another limiter plug-in? Wait: Signum Audio's BUTE Limiter has a sleek yet informative GUI that might tempt you to download the demo to see if it sounds as good as it looks.
Kazrog announced version 3 of KClip, its highly-praised mastering clipper, loudness meter & multiband saturator. Rewritten from the ground-up, KClip 3 comes with a big list of new additions!
Developer Signum Audio introduced a seemingly compelling plug-in: Bute Loudness Analyser. It's a loudness analysis suite with a modern, colorful design and comprehensive feature set. Ouch at the price, tho!
TBProAudio released FinalLoud, a loudness and True Peak finalizer tool designed to help you reach a specific target loudness level during the mastering stage - and it's very reasonably priced.
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SoundSpot just released Velo, a modern brickwall limiter made for loudness maximization without the loss of transient information. And it's available at a hefty 90% off introductory discount...
Tokyo Dawn Records has released the TDR Limiter 6 Gentleman's Edition - "a modern dynamics compression and limiting toolkit". It consists of a compressor, clipper, high frequency limiter, output protection ...
Notable additions to SF Pro Mac 3 include loudness metering and the iZotope Plug-ins RX Elements and Ozone 7 Elements. MAGIX also added support for 64-Bit float/192kHz/32 channels...
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Got your eyes on an industry-leading loudness meter plug-in that looks similar to this one? Perhaps Youlean's free plug can save you hundreds of pounds. Perhaps.
How loud should your master be? How will the loudness treatment effect your mix? MasterCheck Pro is a metering and quality-simulator plug-in here to help.
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Slam Pro is a new all-in-one enhancement mixing and mastering plugin from BeatSkillz, with cues taken from their Slam Dawg 'beat phattener' plugin.
Supposedly at an affordable price, the MM3 MusicMeter is a new audio metering device designed for the music industry by renowned manufacturer RTW.
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I'm normally very skeptical of any signature plugin, but this one resonates with me: it aims to deliver the high standard for audio processing Infected Mushroom are renowned for.
Following the success of dpMeter, TBProAudio add manual loudness matching with version 2. It's unbelievable that this plugin is still free.
Sonnox Oxford have released an update to their famous limiter plugin, but exclusively for the UAD platform. Can we expect a native version?
