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Graphic-heavy GUIs tend to pull me out of reality when I'm working in the same window for more than twelve minutes. A cool geeky-feature award goes to the Perceived Loudness meter. With a few quick adjustments to the Opto compressor and the Linear Phase Equalizer, I was ready to print my first pickup-truck commercial master in less than five minutes! All joking aside, I did not expect the Brickwall Limiter to be so versatile it smashes without squashing-if that makes sense.Дirectly below the processing-rack pane is an advanced metering section. A cool compare function levels the volume of the original audio to match the processed chain so you can toggle between the mix and the chain without the distracting volume bumps-a great tweak-enabling tool.

I dialed my release time out to about 550 ms and selected a 'clean' algorithm. As expected, the Brickwall Limiter freaked me out. Processor parameter adjustments must be made in Module View. Surprisingly, drag-and-drop reordering of processors in the chain is not supported. A Global View mode displays the processing modules graphically in the chain for reference purposes. Below the processor slots, a large GUI pane is reserved for viewing and manipulation of the individual processor modules. A/B'ing and bypassing features were easily controlled individually or globally. Modules in the mastering chain appeared in processor slots at the top of the GUI. Because I like to start fights when listening to that style of music, I loaded the Super Loud preset suite. The mix I loaded was somewhere in the acoustic/country-pop/cliche genre. Audio files appear inside the T-RackS player/editor window located at the bottom of the GUI. Using the T-RackS standalone application, I loaded a mix by simply dragging it to the interface. T-RackS includes a healthy set of global 'mastering suite' and module-specific presets that offer excellent starting points when setting up your mastering chain. The EQ sounds great, but the plug-in suite behaves like a virtual instrument-taxing the CPU while nearly eclipsing the DAW window.

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For example, when inserting the EQP-1A processor on a piano track in Pro Tools, my only option is to load the entire T-RackS suite as an RTAS plug-in. Unfortunately, individual processors cannot be loaded as plug-ins. Other new additions include an Intelligent Brickwall Limiter and a 'surgical' Linear Phase Equalizer. Of all the new processors, I was most impressed by the Opto compressor's gain reduction stage-very smooth. Though I've never seen or touched a real Fairchild 670, in my opinion, the T-RackS processor model holds its own against other 670 plug-ins I've heard. The EQP-1A processor performed faithfully to my ears. IK integrates their Dynamic Saturation Modeling (DSM) technology with a new process called Sonic Character Cloning (SCC) used to digitally create a model of the Fairchild and Pultec units. The T-RackS 3 Deluxe version features three new vintage processor models: a Fairchild 670, a Pultec EQP-1A, and an Opto compressor ambiguously modeled from the best of vintage analog units.

While still offering a 'mastering for the masses' approach with DAW plug-in integration, significant improvements in processor modeling, oversampling, and customization/automation options push T-RackS 3's standalone application towards a more advanced user-base.

#T racks brickwall limiter free manual#

The manual read like a 'mastering for dummies' quick-start guide-helpful, informative, and most of all, very encouraging for the uninitiated. My first lesson in audio mastering consisted of reading the documentation included with an early standalone version of T-RackS 24 that I purchased in 1999.

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