Voxengo Sonic Finalizer

An innovative advanced mastering compressor (spectral compressor).

Here's the site blurb from Voxengo for the Sonic Finalizer...

Voxengo is pleased to introduce a new PC VST plug-in called Sonic Finalizer. This plug-in is an innovative mastering tool for DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) that allows the user to finalize the sonic structure of any sound material. Many of our tests at Voxengo have revealed that even a professionally mastered audio track can be adjusted by Sonic Finalizer, resulting in a new level of sonic excellence.

The main idea behind Sonic Finalizer is a spectral balance. A perfectly balanced mix can be seen on a spectrum analyzer as a spectral curve with a downward slope towards the high end. There can be some deviations from this rule, but generally it always applies (at least the higher frequencies are usually less powerful than lower frequencies). Sonic Finalizer uses compression to adjust the spectral balance of any sound material being processed in a way that its spectral curve fulfills the aforementioned rule. Thus, Sonic Finalizer could also be called a spectral compressor.

For simplicity purposes, Sonic Finalizer has only two blocks of compression controls. One block is called "Low End" and its settings affect lower frequencies. The other block is called "High End" and it affects higher frequencies of the spectrum. Settings for middle frequencies are interpolated.

Sonic Finalizer implements both compression and expansion, which allows a variety of different sound structures to be created, including classical tape compression, unobtrusive bass expansion, and general mix compression. And it all sounds pristine! One could say that Sonic Finalizer brings a classical warm analog compression to a digital workstation. This is true, because even at very subtle compression settings, Sonic Finalizer brings a strong feel of a professionally balanced mix. In fact, Sonic Finalizer allows the user to produce professional sounding mastering in a budget environment. Spectral balance is almost a universal thing, and every mastering engineer has to master it, while Sonic Finalizer brings it the easy way. Sonic Finalizer's adjustments of the spectral balance actually reveal details of the mix being processed.

Features

Innovative spectral compression technology
Gain change meters
"A-to-B" comparisons
Factory presets (where available)
Mono -> Stereo, Stereo -> Stereo processing modes
44.1k and 48k sample rates supported
Highly optimized DSP
64-bit internal precision

Demo processing must be restarted after 1 minute. Preset change also works as a demo time reset.

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