You'll need to tweak the 'Density' slider (basically a "drive" control, pushing into the compressor) and the 'Aggression' control which manipulates the attack/release stages. You only need to tweak two basic sliders. A few minutes ago I think I stumbled upon quite magical settings. I just tweak the parameters (in expert mode) and try to slowly build up an understanding. I have absolutely no idea at all what I'm doing or how this thing works. I'm absolutely baffled by how good it can sound, especially as a mixbus compressor! Today I've mainly been exploring the Single Band compressor as a solid candidate for bus compression duties. There's also some sort of automatic EQ system available but I haven't got that thing to work satisfactorily yet. Perhaps even post some sound examples.Īt this moment I can for certainty say that Stereo Tool excels at dynamics processing (both single and multiband operation), stereo field manipulation and final output limiting/clipping. I hope we can share presets and ideas in this thread.
It also features some declipping and restoration tools. It has an amazing collection of stereo manipulation tools, dynamics processing and saturation/clipping. Lately I've been spending more time with this thing and explored it's potential as a general purpose audio processing tool.
I think it's high time we made a separate topic for this absolutely amazing tool. I'm just an enthusiastic user of this piece of magical code since many years back. Nor am I in any way affiliated with the author.
Also available as a standalone software suite for broadcast, which it was originally created for. Unfortunately it's available for in VST2 and experimental VST3 (windows only?) versions. The basic version (which is more than enough for anybody!) costs 35 euros.