Waves has introduced the Jack Joseph Puig Collection, a collection of audio plug-ins based on some of the most sought-after vintage pieces of gear in audio history.
“As time goes by, there are fewer and fewer examples of these heirloom processors for artists, engineers or producers to have access to,” stated Jack Joseph Puig. “Not every [...]

Crysonic have introduced SpectraPhy LE, a highly optimized look-ahead Brickwall Limiter and Loudness Maximizer based on it’s bigger brother SpectraPhy VST.
SpectraPhy LE has been designed to be used for tracking, mixing, mastering and live use or whenever a large quantity of limiters are required per project.
SpectraPhy LE Features

Proprietary Physics based Peak Limiting and Loudness [...]

Blue Cat Audio has released a new version (1.4) of Blue Cat’s Dynamics all-in-one dynamics processing DirectX and VST plugin for Windows, introducing a new user interface design and many performance and ergonomics improvements.
This plugin can act as a compressor, limiter, expander, gate or distortion unit, making it one of the most complete dynamics processor [...]

Crysonic has announced the release and availability of Spectraphy, the first Mastering grade look-ahead brickwall limiter of its type to utilize the principals of mechanical physics for audio processing.
The approach represents a paradigm shift in the way these types of DSP effects have been designed to date. The unique method employed easily allows the mastering [...]

Waves Ltd., developer of the first audio plug-in, has created a new class of limiter to follow the company’s L1 and L2 limiters, the L3 Peak Limiter.
The L3 Peak Limiter begins by using a linear-phase crossover with user-definable frequencies to divide the audio into five bands without phase distortion between bands. The signal then enters [...]

Voxengo has updated Elephant, a mastering limiter plug-in in PC VST format, to 2.0.
The key feature of this brickwall limiter is its transparency. Unlike many limiters, it does not adjust the dynamic structure of the processed audio material, but instead brings sound limiting and loudness maximization without any audible “pumping” effects.
With the release of version [...]