Pressure2 is Pressure, but revamped with antialiasing. This was an interesting experiment: it gained some slickness but lost some purity of tone. Making things fancier doesn’t always make them better. Bear in mind that this isn’t a peak limiter, so don’t expect any incarnation of Pressure to control overs, they’re sound shapers not utility plugins…
NC-17Demo is a universal binary Audio Unit plugin that takes the lead in the new breed of loudenator plugins typified by the Slate FG-X, but louder, more musically coherent, much less CPU hungry and at one-fifth the price. (yes, that’s going to be considered the bar: this copy was written at a time when I had […]
The original ADClip was invented to deal with an issue with clipping: you get a hard, fatiguing sound. Soft clipping reduces this problem, but makes things sound more trashy and grungey. What ADClip did to fix this was, keeping track of the surroundings of a clipped sample. If it’s in the middle of a batch […]
DigitalBlack is something special from Airwindows: a variable-attack gate. It’s free. Here’s how it works. When signal is going through above the threshold, a special sensor’s being triggered. It’s keeping track of the longest wavelengths of signal, and that determines the ‘crest factor’ over the gate. When signal drops, the gate waits for that crest factor […]
