Voxengo Elephant
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Voxengo is one of these rare plugin developers who offers high quality professional audio software at a really fair price. I tried their limiter, Elephant 2 some years ago and I just bought Elephant 3, released in September 2008.
Voxengo Elephant is a mastering limiter plug-in for professional music production applications. I tried some other limiters but Elephant, despite is name, is really transparent and discrete and can add some loudness without the usual side-effects, used sparingly like with every limiter of course!
For The Field Where She Died, I’m using another Voxengo plugin which is a mastering comp called the Polysquasher (I love this name!!). It’s a “glue comp” which is really transparent and brings more cohesion to the mix. I find that Elephant and Polysquasher work really great together and are a great and low cost way to finalize your songs, preserving their natural feel and dynamics.
There’s also a free EQ which is quite interesting: The Overtone EQ.
I’m really curious to try other plugins from Voxengo like the GlissEQ, a mastering EQ which seems to be really appreciated here and there!
Spleen Arcana (Facebook User Note)I am using quite a few of your plugins as bus masters for film & TV sound post. Elephant after Polysquasher is fantastic to envelope the final mix and peak limiter for broadcast specs. Voxformer is an excellent way to control and punch vocals without sounding over processed. Soniformer is my preferred plugin for music pre mix stems but until recently, I wasn't quite happy with a compressor for FX stem control, but the new Drumformer is perfect for this.
HarmoniEQ and GlissEQ are both really useful to enhance without fatigue and also interesting EQs to use on denoised material. Great plugins and so reasonable priced. They work perfectly in my Fairlight host.
Michael Gissing , Digital City Studios, Australia.