Voxengo Elephant
Friendly greetings Aleksey!
I wanted to thank you directly for Voxengo Elephant. Every time a new limiter comes out on the market, I test it thoroughly versus Elephant, but ALL contenders to date (over the last four years) have been crushed at Elephant's massive feet. Despite compelling marketing copy, those competitors simply can't handle the extreme dynamics and transients I throw at Elephant, which rides the peaks a lot more transparently. The TRANS TIME knob is magic — if I hear unwanted distortion in a saturated track rich with ambience, I simply turn it up and the ugliness is gone. I can retain a good balance between punch and clarity, something which is unintuitively difficult in "other limiters".
You should know that I used Elephant on my album that won the Spectrasonics-Bob Moog Foundation's OMG-1 Grand Prize: http://www.spectrasonics.net/contest/winners.php From phat breakbeats to eloquent arpeggiators, Elephant is versatile and able to treat it all. Elephant's high-quality at low-latency makes it possible to use in a "realtime mastering chain", which is essential to my workflow and makes it easy to hear the near-final result instantly. Plus, auto-oversampling works like a charm.
What's more, EVERYONE out there should know how mature and stable Elephant is. It's almost a decade old, wow! Long ago, I grew irritated with lesser limiters that didn't keep backward compatibility modes in mind, since that inconsistency wastes time. But I'm glad that although Elephant continues to be in active development, it has really settled into a beautiful place in my creation process.
On top of all this, Elephant's price continues to provide the best bang-for-buck. What incredible value for a truly versatile tool!
Keep being creative — you've truly made it easier for musicians like me to make our music shine.
Torley Wong (Whidbey Island, Washington)I was at an awards evening a few days ago and it occurred to me just how much I have come to rely on the Elephant Limiter.
Like most professional mastering engineers, I own a range of top quality limiters (including the old L2 hardware even). However, in my chain anyway, nothing seems to equal the Elephant in terms of getting the best out of the song. I chose it almost 100% of the time.
And it has served me well … in the last little while alone it has seen songs I have mastered go to #1 iTunes, sell double platinum, #2 hot 100, #1 iTunes metal, make the ARIA charts (our equivalent of the RIAA), #1 country radio, over 15 million streams on Spotify alone, win song of the year, artist of the year and so on. All with the Elephant as limiter.
I just wanted to say how much I genuinely appreciate your work on the Elephant. Thank you so very much for such an outstanding limiter!
All the best
Paul Blakey, Mastering Engineer, 12th & Vine Post