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Bute Limiter provides high fidelity pro-audio limiting. Smooth and transparent with its True Peak Brickwall Limiter, you’ll find superior sound quality for use on a final master or individual tracks during mixing.
November 23, 2021
Company: Signum Audio
Product: Bute Limiter
Price: Stereo - £59 Surround - £99
Our Rating: 4.8/5
Bute Limiter provides high fidelity pro-audio limiting. Smooth and transparent with its True Peak Brickwall Limiter, you’ll find superior sound quality for use on a final master or individual tracks during mixing. We previously reviewed Bute Loudness Suite which includes the Limiter as part of it's punchy package.
Bute limiter supports common mix formats from Stereo up to 10 channel Dolby Atmos. An algorithm was built from the ground up to ensure no true peak overshoots while retaining a transparent and smooth limiter sound. It includes a variety of release modes which are suitable for different types of music or mixes. Some of these include pumping, linear and transparent.
Of course, this plugin is ideal for Audio Post Studios and Sound Designers, and in our opinion is best paired with the entire Loudness Suite. Priced at the same level as budget limiters, you get a simple and intuitive tool that performs the same functions with the latest algorithms. It is also useful for mastering sound effects or music.
Very little can be said to improve this limiter, it’s price point is excellent and it gets our recommendation for post production mixers who are mixing in surround or stereo formats.
It would be amazing to see the loudness analysis tools for LUFS implemented into the limiter, but that is a big stretch considering it's price point. You will need BUTE Loudness Analyser for that.
We have been working on a piece of software that will revolutionise filmmaking and the sound effects/design workflow in post production.
November 23, 2021
We have a really big announcement to make. We have been working on a piece of software that will revolutionise filmmaking and the sound effects/design workflow in post production. This software is VIRTUAL SOUND DESIGNER.
A culmination of 5 years of solid work, testing and development have led to this creation, and now that it has been given the seal of approval by huge companies in Hollywood, it is time to share this with the world and not leave it in the hands of the elite.
No longer will you have to go through the creative process of developing sound effects and design for your films, as our AI system can analyse footage and search our huge online database to lay in sounds effects in sync with the picture, accurately synced and mixed. And it is compatible with every industry leading software from DAW audio editing systems to NLE video editing systems.
Click the following link to join our public beta, and take your film's sound design to the next level!
https://www.344audio.com/virtual-sound-designer
FreeAMP is a free, stripped-down version of Klevgrand's popular analog audio gear modeler REAMP*
November 23, 2021
FreeAMP is a free, stripped-down version of Klevgrand's popular analog audio gear modeler REAMP*
Even if FreeAMP looks simple at the first glance, all the algorithms from REAMP are still present. In this version, Klevgrand have mixed their favorite profiles from REAMP into one single profile. When processing audio through FreeAMP you’ll get the sound of tape- and tube saturation at the same time.
To get a copy of FreeAMP, it is mandatory to sign up for a user account on Klevgrand's webpage: https://klevgrand.se
*REAMP, released in December 2018, is a complex spectral saturation processor, simulating a set of different analog gear in a unique way. Read more: https://klevgrand.se/products/reamp
Features
YouTube Video link: https://youtu.be/gWpFKrUBh5A
Read more at https://klevgrand.se/products/freeamp
Stringache is a modern horror library delivering over 570 high-quality sounds made of processed string instruments noises. This collection has a great variety of elements that you can use for terrific stylish sound effects as well as to create horror cinematic music.
November 23, 2021
Company: Silence + Other sounds
Product: Stringache
Price: $29.50 (usually $59)
Our Rating: 4.4/5
Stringache is a modern horror library delivering over 570 high-quality sounds made of processed string instruments noises. This collection has a great variety of elements that you can use for terrific stylish sound effects as well as to create horror cinematic music.
This 1.8GB sound library has been created by recording high quality 24Bit 96kHz WAV. string instruments such as Violin, Cello, Guitar and Double Bass; it offers 300 designed sounds and 270 + raw sounds. All these instruments were captured by using close microphone techniques and playing styles such as pizzicato and staccato; therefore, the library contents a great number of sources to create terrific soundtracks and grab the viewer's attention.
The library is divided into 5 designed samples section and 1 raw source recording folder. The designed folder contains a great variety of designed sounds that will allow you to have a great starting point if your time is limited, bonus point!
Stringache is compatible with Kontakt (v 5.8.1 FULL), therefore you would be able to modify certain parameters in order to meet your criteria but don't panic if you are not a Kontakt user, you can also import every sound into your DAW or use your favourite audio sampler, as all the WAV. files are available in a separate folder.
Our favourite samples are probably the Cello Strokes, The Grain Viola and the Lament Reverse; these all are pre processed; if you are using them as WAV. file, it might limit your workflow to some extent as the sound already contents embedded reverb and it won't probably match what you are aiming for.
Stringache would be definitely a great addition to your sound library if you are working in a horror project, it contains a high quality audio content and it has been perfectly designed if you are aiming to complete a task in a short period of time. We at 344 Audio would be certainly using this product for our upcoming projects.
It is on sale for $29.50 (usually $59) until April 2019, don't miss out!
Visit silenceandothersounds.com/products/stringache/ for more details.
The waterphone combines elements from many abstract instruments and can be played in a variety of ways to generate ethereal, ethnic and ghostly sounds.
November 23, 2021
We have just built a replica of the infamous and rare Sound/Musical Instrument called the Waterphone for use in our projects.
Having been used on films such as Star Trek, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Matrix, The Shadow Conspiracy and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon the waterphone combines elements from many abstract instruments and can be played in a variety of ways to generate ethereal, ethnic and ghostly sounds.
Here are some examples of what it can do:
