The plugin can also be driven to pretty extreme settings without generating noise or other problems.
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When testing this plugin I have been amazed by the sound quality: there are many competitors (some free and some paid) in the peak reduction realm, but this one is particularly good I have use it on a drum overhead buss in order to tame the snare sound, give more body to the snare and raise the cymbals level, but I have also tried it on a vocals and on a bass track, and it adds a very warm and pleasant saturation.
Sidechain: a switch and a knob made to handle sidechain with low end material Autogain: a switch that sets automatically the makeup gain Lookahead: it helps anticipating peaks and attenuating them properly Colour: it's a switch that adds some saturation to the signal, to give more life to some weak recording take Aggro: it alters the release envelope (obviously there is a release knob too), and it's particularly useful with drums Hard and soft mode: it changes the way transients are mantained: with soft mode they are preserved more. The Advanced version instead is a much more complete plugin, which takes the lite version and adds many more controls. The Lite version is a streamlined version, more similar to the hardware machines it emulates, that has basically four knobs: threshold, output, input and mix (this one lets you choose the amount of processed signal to be mixed with the dry one).
This plugin, Finality, is a Peak Limiter (click here for an in depht article about mixing and mastering with peak limiters), which is basically a compressor modeled after the way they used to make them in the 60s and 70s: with a threshold knob to decide from where to start compressing, an output knob to even out the output with the dry track, and a VU meter to check out the amount of gain reduction going on.įinality comes in 2 versions: Lite and Advanced. Today we're reviewing a vst from JST (Joey Sturgis Tones), a line of plugins created by the producer Joey Sturgis, one of the most known modern rock/metal producers in America. This is one of the few that I’ve tried that does not do this, which is why I use it religiously now on guitar DI’s.Hello and welcome to this week's article! Some will create weird glitching artifacts as the signal nears the threshold. Be warned though that not all expanders are created equally.
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You can download the preset in the files section of Nomad Factory Audiophiles! on Facebook, or try your own expanders to achieve the same result. The Nomad Factory AS Gate-Expander, with a preset I made just for guitar DI’s. The noise level has a much further journey to travel to become a problem. That’s because it drastically increases the signal-to-noise ratio in our favor. With the expander in the picture, it practically eliminates the need for gating on heavily distorted guitar tones. Anyone who has used JST Gain Reduction knows that the default setting is quite loud and quite squashed, so this would be a good emulation of what a guitar amp sim would do to the noise level when you’re not actually playing any notes. With the expander pushing down the noise floor to such a low level, it takes a lot more heavy handed compression to make the noise floor of our converters become a problem. And reaching to just below -80dbfs in a manner that is audible at mixing volume, you see how high the compressor brought up the noise floor. Right above that is the 7db boost provided by HoRNet Track Utility. I’ve bypassed the expander, and now you see our original noise floor is the lowest signal on the analyzer. MeldaProduction MMultiAnalyzer Noise Floor Analysis With Expander In Bypsass With the expander in the picture, even after being heavily compressed the noise is only reaching back up to the original noise floor level. Since there is no signal, and it’s all noise, this is to be expected. That’s how much JST Gain Reduction is bring up the noise floor.
Then you’ll see a brighter green band that’s being pushed back up to near the original noise floor. The dark green band right above the orange one at the bottom is how high Track Utility brought up that noise floor. I usually use HoRNet Track Utility to bring the overall level of my DI’s up to -6dbfs after I’ve passed my converters, that way the signal hitting the amp sim is hotter. The dark orange band at the very bottom is where the expander is pushing that noise floor to, down around -170dbfs. The red band is the noise floor of my interface, and it’s reading down around -110dbfs. In the first picture, you’ll see 4 colored bands on the analyzer. MeldaProduction MMultiAnalyzer Noise Floor Analysis With Expander Engaged
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