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
Voxengo Elephant impressed me the first time I used it. Very clean and natural sounding, extremely versatile and useful for any audio source, very transparent limiting, great dither section, light and reliable. I made few tests with my other limiters and Elephant was the most clean and natural sounding. Definitely a top level mastering limiter and my favourite one. Another great plugin from Voxengo!
Julian Janev - mastering engineer (JJmastering)
Year after year after year, Voxengo Gliss remains the heavy-weight champion in all my work when it comes to surgical and dynamic EQing (linear-phase 8x oversampling settings). I repeatedly pit Gliss against new contenders. It always comes out on top, taking out Waves C4/C6 without breaking a sweat and has dominated every dynamic EQ that has emerged since. It just sounds better in every way, whether it's a shelf or a node or a low/high-pass filter. Plus it's more flexible. People don't realize that every node is potentially a powerful transient shaper. Also, the harmonic saturation mode is not to be underestimated. For thrills, I once opened Gliss EQs on every track of a mix with a wide saturation Q and a few tenths of a dB gain. It sounded better than all but one of the console emulations on the market at that point in time, crushing many expensive well know console knock-offs.
I cannot say enough good things about Gliss. It is a legendary classic in my view that may well be the end all be all of linear-phase EQs. And now that it is compatible with AAX, there's no excuse for everyone not to be using it.
loadestone.audio
Very warm, very clean, very useful! I didn't expect such a great warm sounding tube drive from a free plug-in! I'm using it on almost every project and now I'm gonna get Voxengo Warmifier for sure :-)
Julian Janev - mixing and mastering engineer
I would like to add that your free plugins are among the most useful in the world. I regularly use MSED, SoundDelay, and others. Just want to show my deep appreciation for your generosity. These are not gimmicky plugins. They are stalwart workhorses in my toolbox. ...and they sound vastly superior to Logic's plugins of similar purpose.
M Olsen
Simple and useful utility, a quick way to go tool, good product, thanks.
userone
I have so many EQs and I was thinking that I don't need one more. When I heard it, I said "I must have it"! Voxengo GlissEQ impressed me with very clean and natural sound, without adding extra air or thickness to the sound. With it's dynamic filtering it works very nice and transparent to any audio source. Great plugin - my favourite one for final mastering EQ!
Julian Janev - mastering engineer (JJmastering)
Absolutely the best free EQ that I have used! Very warm "tube like" sound, very useful. Unbelievable free plug-in from Voxengo again!
Julian Janev - mixing and mastering engineer
Great professional encoder and decoder for free! Very clean and transperant sound, very useful! Hi quality and natural sound from Voxengo as always! :-)
Julian Janev - mixing and mastering engineer
Its a very transparent brickwall limiter with a very high accuracy. I was immediately convinced at first hearing and my productions sounds much better now !
Romerium