Voxengo Elephant - User Testimonials
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!
Quite simply, Elephant 3 is the best limiter I have ever heard - vastly outperforming my current one in terms of transparency (I'd better not say which one it is - but it costs a lot more than Elephant!)
It has so many excellent features which make it very easy to tailor the perfect sound for my masters. And yet, despite having so many variables, the clear layout, innovative metering graphs and incredibly well designed preset modes make it an absolute joy to use straight away.
The only downside is that now - I'm redoing the last CD I mastered. Not because my client was unhappy, but because I know it will sound SO much better with an Elephant sat on it. Thanks very much to Aleksey and his team for this marvelous piece of software.
Hi.
Just wanted to say thanks, Voxengo. Since I discovered the Elephant, and later the Stereo Touch, I use these plug-ins almost exclusively in their respective fields. Can't imagine living without those anymore. A huge thank you.
After much research into digital limiters, i kept on reading how in test after test voxengo's elephant was always rated as the best.
After demoing it i soon came to the same conclusion. It is highly flexible and ideal for situations where punch and clarity are needed at modern volume levels. It can also be very transparent.
Elephant is now our mastering studio's default limiter. Thanks for a great product!
I got surprise when I listen to it. I guess I have to get it for my studio for sure :-)
Congratulations!
Thanks so much for the HarmoniEQ update. It sounds amazing. I'm finally getting the sounds on my songs that I've been trying to get for years. I use it in my mastering chain. It gives me a airy presence that's not harsh. The compressed settings are just great. They give me a smoothness that I've been looking for for my solo classical guitar pieces that have been difficult in the past.
The mastering chain I've been using recently, all Voxengo, is Tapebus, CurveEQ, Polysquasher (also a great update-wow!), HarmoniEQ, Elephant. I've been having a lot of success with that combo but I'm wondering if you have any suggestions or feedback about it. Thanks for your great work.
Woaaa - I just updated Elephant to the latest version as well as I purchased the new Harmony EQ... I am completely blown away by the Harmony EQ - there was always that cryptic "boost" knob in the old version - which usually sounded great, but was not really controllable - so I usually ended up not using it. Now with the new Dynamic Section as well as the realtime analyzer.. Wow!
In addition I just stepped over the graph feature in Elephant. Great great great!! Ok - watching a waveform has nothing to do with mastering.. But I do love to watch that. I am most sure we all do that.. Before I had to open an exported masterfile in Wavelab, haha - now I can see what is going on :)) Now that is really a cool feature!!
Cheers,