TL;DW: Overheads is for compressing only part of the sound, strangely! Overheads.zip(501k) I could say this was a compressor for putting on drum overheads to take out the drums and leave only the cymbals, but that would only be scratching the surface… Overheads is one of those old Airwindows plugins built on really strange ideas. […]
TL;DW: Pop2 adds control and punch to Pop. Pop2.zip(628k) Back in the day, I said I would get an Allen and Heath compressor to do Pop2. That is not what happened here, and Pop2 is not a hardware emulation (even though I’m demonstrating it against a Heritage Audio Successor using a sidechain filter on the […]
TL;DW: Dynamics is a combination compressor gate. Dynamics.zip(946k) Dynamics started with a request: the gate, from CStrip, on its own. Then I thought, what if I included the compression too? I could tweak both and see if I could make ’em better for the new plugin. And then I thought, what would it be like […]
TL;DW: Pressure5 expands Pressure4 with after-boost and built-in ClipOnly2. Pressure5.zip(616k) Yup! It’s here. Happy solstice, and welcome to Pressure5 :) This plugin builds on 2017’s Pressure4 in numerous ways. I made it for my own use: I was mixing an album in Console7 that had to follow a previous album I’d mixed on an analog […]
