Get on the Bus with Bettermaker
Bettermaker has built its reputation on a simple promise: creating great-sounding tools that elevate your mixes. The Bettermaker Bus Compressor plug-in is a perfect example — a powerful, intuitive processor that can instantly enhance any mix or master. Far more than just a software version of its acclaimed hardware unit, this powerful tool offers flexible control and musical results. You get Peak/RMS detection modes, a sidechain highpass filter (HPF), a midrange emphasis option, and a VCA Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) control to add tasteful saturation. Other thoughtful features include Auto-release, a Mix knob for easy parallel compression, stepped or continuous knob behavior, and factory presets that can solve common mix issues with just a few clicks. With its combination of precision, warmth, and usability, the Bettermaker Bus Compressor plug-in is a versatile mix bus tool you’ll reach for again and again.
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Glue it all together
Sweetwater studio engineers have found that the Bus Compressor plug-in's Peak compression mode is perfect for taming drum transients. Meanwhile, the RMS mode provides natural-sounding compression on vocals, bass, synths, and more. De-essing sibilance and hi-hats is also a cinch, as is reducing low end "pumping" artifacts, thanks to the sidechain HPF. The Auto-release function handily sets the release time according to your musical content, and an ever-useful Gain knob lets you apply positive/negative make-up gain as needed. Add it all up, and you've got a bus compressor that is applicable for any and all situations where some "glue" is needed.
Bettermaker Bus Compressor Features:
- Versatile, musical bus compressor with comprehensive controls to achieve flexible, musical results
- Peak compression mode tames drums and other material with strong transient information
- RMS compression mode provides natural, smooth-sounding compression to more legato sources such as vocals, basses, and synths
- Ubiquitous controls for threshold, Ratio, Attack, Release, and Gain give you intuitive operation
- Easy parallel compression via the Mix knob
- Auto-release mode chooses the Release time based on the source material you provide it
- Internal/external sidechain HPF plus midrange boost option gives you extra sound sculpting options for de-essing, "pumping" artifacts, and more
- VCA THD knob gives your sounds some gentle harmonic saturation if desired
- Freely adjustable or stepped knob options let you work however you prefer
- Incredibly useful factory presets for a wide variety of common scenarios
- Visual feedback via Input, Output, and Gain Reduction meters