INVIGORATE
Sound Bigger
ADD GLUE AND ENERGY
Invigorate is a unique dynamics processor purpose built to add glue and life to your mix, drum bus, or any other element. The intuitive radar control allows a seamless transition from energetic compression, through aggressive limiting, to rich overdrive; gluing your mix and giving it presence.
The result brings your mix forward and gives it the energy you need for a finished record.
ELYXR - La Di Da
This is an example of how Invigorate was used while mixing ELYXR's beautiful La Di Da. I'll let Kasson Crooker put it in his own words...
"ELYXR normally doesn't use much compression or limiting on the main mix groups, and reserves the more aggressive limiting to the final mastering process. However, as a test we employed 4 individual Invigorate plugins on each of the main mix groups: Drums, Bass Synths, Lead Synths, and Vocals. I could dial in the exact amount of push, presence, limiting, and even a bit of overdrive to get a more powerful sound out of each of those groups that was more custom-tailored for the mix needs of each group. The result was a more powerful final mix going into the mastering process where we already had a stronger unified mix, more presence and power, and ultimately needed much less hard-limiting in the final mastering stage. Very happy with how Invigorate improved the overall sonic quality of the busses, had a very intuitive UI to get to the right sound quickly, and prepped the final mix for lighter touch during mastering. Definitely going to use this method on all my mixes moving forward!"
Over 200 Presets, Including Many From...
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Justin Hergett (FINNEAS, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Ashe)
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John O'Mahony (Marina, Coldplay, Sara Bareilles)
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Damian Taylor (The Prodigy, Bjork, The Killers)
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Matt Lange
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Scott Gershin (Pacific Rim, American Beauty)
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APS Mastering (Vampire Weekend, The Shivers)
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David Gnozzi (MixbusTv, MC Solaar)
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Count (Radiohead, Tycho, DJ Shadow, Zoe Keating)
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John Nathaniel (OneRepublic, Shawn Mendes)
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Maor Appelbaum (Faith No More, Yes, Sepultura)
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Jacob Shea (Planet Earth, Inception, Battleship)
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ROCASound (Sting, Seal, Donna Summer, Iron Man 2)
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Matthew Wang (Tiger King, Glow, Reno 911!)
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Ronit Kirchman (The Sinner, Evil Eye, Limetown)
FEATURES
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Combines the best elements of compression, limiting, and overdrive to make your audio sound bigger and more energetic
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Unique Radar control allows you to set the perfect amount of gain while morphing from compression, through limiting, to distortion
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Prominent MIX knob allows you to dial in just the right amount of character
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SENSITIVITY tone controls allow you to tailor the frequencies of the sidechain signal
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INPUT EXCITER tone controls allow you to overdrive the dynamics processor
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OUTPUT TONE controls allow you to tailor the sound of the wet signal before the mix control
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SHAPE, SQUASH, and GATE controls for the gain curve give the perfect amount of control over your tone
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An aggressive level detector makes the compression pump and breathe when desired
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Innovative gain compensation algorithm allows you to dial in the perfect sound without tricking yourself that "louder is better"
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Oversampling and Anti-aliasing assure clean sonics with no digital aliasing
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(NEW) Multi level undo/redo for easier workflow
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(NEW) True A/B comparison for making better mixing decisions
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(NEW) Preset librarian adds Categories, Tags, Descriptions, Artist links, Favorites, and Search to presets
TECHNOLOGY
Invigorate is the result of in depth research into the nature of "glue" compression. Learn more about what mix glue is and why it sounds good.
In order to make Invigorate do all that we wanted we needed to invent a novel compression topology that combines the best of compression, limiting, and overdrive.