The Tidewaves interface, transparent by design.
Glue that holds a mix together, with zero added coloration.
The Tidewaves interface, transparent by design.
Whichever is driving at the moment sets the attack automatically. MOVE and CATCH shape how readily the body and transients take over.
VCA stays clean and exact, OPTO blooms with a program-dependent tail, VARI-MU's ratio blooms as it digs in. RELEASE steps from 100ms to 1.2s, or set AUTO REL to track how hard the gain reduction is working.
A ±6dB shelf pair pivots at 800Hz to bias the sidechain toward lows or highs, still one detector, not a multiband split.
FLOOD gently raises what's already quiet instead of only squashing what's loud, one detector and one curve doing both jobs.
Lock release to a note value at the host's tempo instead of a fixed time, so the glue breathes with the song rather than the clock.
No lookahead, no nonlinear stage, a smoothed gain multiply that doesn't alias.
100% Depth ties both channels to one shared detector, the safest, most image-stable setting. Pull it back for more independent per-channel gain reduction, trading a little stability for width and movement.
On a calibrated test tone, measured gain reduction (5.54dB) matched theory (5.49dB) to within hundredths of a dB.
Tidewaves ships with its MUSICAL circuit and ballistics tuned on real program material. $49 USD individually, or $199 USD as part of the Elemental Mastering Suite. The store opens shortly; join the list and we'll email you the day it does. $5 from every purchase goes to BC Children's Hospital Foundation.
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