Hi all. A few weeks ago, before the multiband compressor was added to radioboss, I had vibe coded a plugin to be used in podcast, broadcast, and mastering scenarios, and released a small free version on github, called Optilab Core. Although it has 3 parameters, the audio goes through 6 stages as part of the processing. The main highlights include a 2 band AGC, fed in to an adaptive base system that will add or remove base depending on the level of the midrange, a 6 band compressor/limiter section, ran in to a final limiter that sends transients to saturation and tonal information to a limiter. With this plugin, you can master audio pretty well despite only given 3 parameters. The first parameter is simply An input level, the second is an option to choose the processing type, podcast, stream, or master limiter. Finally, you have an auto-adapt control which makes the processing more aggressive as its value is increased.
Although radioboss now has a multiband compressor, which you can add as an effect, you may find that optilab core is still useful as the final effect in the chain because of how hard you can drive its limiter. In my experience, I've always needed a limiter after multiband compression because some samples can still go over 0db, even with high ratios. This is due to either a slow attack time in order for the compression to sound natural, or due to audio that isn't as agressively compressed due to it being at a crossover point between bands.
For more information, go to https://github.com/dgl1984/optilab/
I can promiss you, this is not just another compressor plugin. Let me know what you think.
Although radioboss now has a multiband compressor, which you can add as an effect, you may find that optilab core is still useful as the final effect in the chain because of how hard you can drive its limiter. In my experience, I've always needed a limiter after multiband compression because some samples can still go over 0db, even with high ratios. This is due to either a slow attack time in order for the compression to sound natural, or due to audio that isn't as agressively compressed due to it being at a crossover point between bands.
For more information, go to https://github.com/dgl1984/optilab/
I can promiss you, this is not just another compressor plugin. Let me know what you think.
