Plugin Alliance have released Bettermaker plugin, a VCA bus compressor for your instrument buses, vocal bus, and stereo bus, available at the intro price of $229.99, increasing to $299.00 after the promotion. Owners of ACME Opticom XLA-3, Bettermaker EQ232D, bx_opto, bx_townhouse Buss Compressor, elysia mpressor, Kiive Audio Xtressor, Lindell Audio SBC, and Purple Audio MC77 will receive an additional discount, reducing the price to $119.00 for a limited time.
Use the Bettermaker Bus Compressor to add bus compression to your drum, vocal, guitar, and stereo buses. This VCA bus compressor plugin is designed to preserve transient material and maintain “punch” while glueing your mixes together. The Bettermaker Bus Compressor will add the warmth and vibe that your submixes have been missing, especially when applied to raw studio recordings.
The hardware version of the Bettermaker Bus Compressor uses an entirely analog signal path with settings that are saved and recalled digitally; this has led to the unit’s widespread popularity amongst professional mixing and mastering engineers. While the Bettermaker Bus Compressor plugin sounds very similar to the hardware, it’s slightly more forgiving and surgical, allowing you to de-ess vocals and hi-hats. Furthermore, the VCA Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) knob generates additional harmonic content, subtly saturating your music.
When processing bass-heavy sounds, many compressors often respond too aggressively to low-end transients. As a result, you may end up with undesirable pumping effects. The Bettermaker Bus Compressor includes a sidechain high-pass filter and midrange boost option. Use these features to target the punch of kick drums and the sibilance in vocals.
The Bettermaker Bus Compressor plugin features both Peak and RMS detection modes, making it an incredibly versatile compressor. Peak mode is intended for tight dynamics control and is perfect for taming aggressive drum transients. RMS mode provides smoother compression, ideal for sustained sounds like pads, basses, and vocal textures.
Features include:
- Threshold, Ratio, Attack, and Release controls
- Auto Release mode that sets the release time based on musical content
- Mix knob to apply parallel compression
- Gain control to add positive or negative makeup gain
- Internal/external sidechain filtering options
- VCA THD that applies subtle saturation
- Peak and RMS detection modes
- Input, output, and gain reduction meters
- Choose between freely adjustable or stepped knob settings
- Factory presets
Watch the walkthrough video HERE.
Bettermaker is available to PC and Mac users (VST2, VST3, AU and AAX).
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