Mercurial Tones have released Vanguard, available at the intro price of €39.00, increasing to €49.00 after the promotion.
Vintage is the slow, gluey response of a classic bus compressor that has been holding records together for decades. Modern is clean, fast, and transparent. Bass is custom-tuned for low-end glue. Switch in real time, watch the same VU needle settle, and hear the difference instantly.
Vanguard has three compressor characters. A pre-stage tube. RSX, our reactive spectral engine that adapts the saturation character to your audio in real time. Not just another bus compressor, a complete glue and color workstation built around the way real records sound.
RSX is Mercurial Tones’ own technology, the next step in the evolution of tube saturation. Most saturators apply the same character to every input. Vanguard listens to what you feed it and reshapes the saturation to match the source. The result feels alive instead of static, and it sits right on every kind of material without you reaching for a knob.
A full tube saturation stage sits before the compressor, not as an afterthought. Three voiced characters, harmonic shaping per mode, transient-aware drive, and a parallel mix knob. Add weight, edge, or shimmer before the bus comp ever sees the signal. RSX runs underneath it all, adapting the harmonic response to your audio in real time.
Bus compression lives or dies on what triggers it. Vanguard gives you a sweepable sidechain HPF, lookahead detection, and a stereo link control that scales from independent dual-mono to fully linked stereo, so kick drums never pump the vocal bus and stereo information stays exactly where you want it.
A post-compression clipper sits at the output stage with selectable modes, drive, and ceiling. Push extra loudness without ugly limiter pumping. Delta listen lets you hear exactly what the plugin is doing, in solo, at any time. Mix blend ties it all together for parallel processing.
Vanguard is available to PC and Mac users (VST3 and AU).
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