Technical information

McDSP plug-ins
Theovershoot range allows the compressor to ‘miss’, or ‘overshoot’ the desired
compression ratio and ultimately recover to a linear compression curve.
This effect creates pumping/breathing effects found in such compressors
as the Neve 33609C. The overshoot with ‘tail’ range continues the overshoot
response, and adds a compression ‘tail’. This ‘tail’ reduces compression ratios
for signals that greatly exceed the compression threshold. Such an effect
gives compressed signals more ‘presence’ or ‘top-end’ as some strong signal
transients are allowed to pass with less gain reduction from the compressor.
Such characteristics are common in devices like the Teletronix LA2A and other
‘optocompressors’.
It is important to note how these three variations of knee control transition
smoothly from one to the other. The MC2000 plug-in allows the user to choose
di erent knee shapes, even changing compression paradigms (from a dbx 165
to a Neve 33609), in a single continuous control change.
ML 4000 Mastering Limiter and
Multi-bandProcessor
The ML4000 is a mastering limiter and multi-band processor. There are two
plug-ins – the ML1 Mastering Limiter and the ML4 Mastering Limiter with the
Multi-band dynamics section.
ML1
The ML1 mastering limiter uses a  exible brick wall look-ahead design coupled
with multiple stages of limiting for superior peak detection. The unique Knee
and Mode controls allow the ML1 to handle any kind of material, with settings
ranging from clean, transparent limiting to serious dynamic crushing!
The ML1 has meters showing the input into the mastering limiter itself, the
amount of gain reduction applied to signal peaks, and the master output levels.
Controls include output Ceiling, Threshold, Knee, and Release and a mode
selector that lets you choose the type of limiting – Clean, Soft, Smart, Dynamic,
Loud, or Crush.
1. Clean is the most transparent limiter mode. Signal levels are adjusted
with the least amount of measurable distortion. This is great for general
mastering, and other uses where the e ect of the limiter is ideally inaudible.
2. Soft mode is slightly louder than the Clean mode, but is also very transparent.