The Tidewaves interface, one detector, no multiband guesswork.
Transparent broadband glue compression, the standalone compressor the lineup was missing. One coherent detector, zero added coloration.
The Tidewaves interface, one detector, no multiband guesswork.
VCA-clean, opto-smooth, or vari-mu-slow gain-reduction dynamics, attack shape, release, and knee shift with no added distortion in any mode.
Attack derives from smoothed crest factor (8–25ms); release blends two time constants, 120ms and 850ms, by how sustained the gain reduction is.
A ±6dB shelf pair pivots at 800Hz to bias the sidechain toward lows or highs, still one detector, not a multiband split.
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 is finished and release-ready, with ballistics and detector tuned on real program material. $49 USD individually, or $169 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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