Eventide and
Newfangled Audio have updated the
Elevate Mastering Bundle to v1.5.1
The bundle which included the
Elevate Mastering Limiter and
EQuivocate Auditory Graphic EQnow includes 2 new free plugins (added with v1.5.0)
Saturate and
Punctuate.
Download:
https://www.eventideaudio.com/support/product/10599/installers This release adds two new plugins:
- Saturate Spectral Clipper plug-in.
- Punctuate Auditory Transient Emphasis plug-in.
The bundle is on sale for $139; upgrade from EQuivocate for $99 thru September 5, 2018.
Saturate is a saturation plug-in made popular as the final Spectral Clipper stage in the Elevate plug-in. Saturate as two controls which belie a sophisticated signal processing engine which allows it to overdrive a signal without effecting the tonal balance or allowing the signal to get "tubby". This makes it ideal for overdriving an entire mix, but it works quite well on individual instruments as well. Consider placing it after Punctuate to transparently treat the transients that you may have boosted.
Punctuate is heavily based on the Transient Emphasis section of the Elevate Mastering Limiter. It is a multi-band transient modulator (sometimes called a transient designer) that uses, by default, the 26 critical bands in the human ear. In addition to using the critical bands it uses intelligent algorithms to set the parameters of the transient modulator for each band. This allows you to control the transient emphasis (or suppression) and timing across all 26 bands with just 4 controls