Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor Plugin Torrent
Ermengardi Atkisson
Where do I start with this nightmare purchase? I purchased Shadow Hill Mastering Compressor along with the Avalon VT-737. Went through the whole download process on the UA Console. Was only able to download the Avalon plugin and never received the Shadow Hill Compressor although I was charged for both. I reached out to support and still have not receive neither an phone call nor a follow up email going on two weeks now.. Never buying anything from UA what a con job!!!!
le compresseur gauche est un opto et le cot droit plus polyvalent ,ce qui le rend tres particulier. sur le master faut y aller tres cool car il est tres musical et meme sur les voix ca sonne tres bien
An excellent sounding compressor! This compressor is extremely versatile: it can sound extremely clean, clear or also strongly coloring, saturated. The possibilities that this compressor opens up are remarkable and extraordinary! One of the best-sounding compressors currently available. Highly recommended!
This compressor is a whole other alternative to Neve, SSL, API and Chandler. I own all those but this still on a number of songs is just right. It has a different, more subtle, yet beautiful feel to it.
I've tried many different mastering compressors, and while they all sound great and have their unique qualities, I always come back to the Shadow Hills. The naturalness and transparency are second to none.
I generally use slow attack and fast release times when applying compression to an entire mix, and only want to be applying 1-2dB of gain reduction as to not introduce pumping or compromise the mix. The Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor can be very transparent, or it can be pushed to get a huge, modern, in-your-face sound.
The Vintage Compressor in Ozone 7 does a great job of combining the precise digital controls typical to the entire Ozone 7 Suite with a warm, vibey tone. I immediately notice a pleasant bump in the high end when using this compressor.
When I saw that mastering engineer Bob Katz recommended DynOne for its transparency, depth, and ability to preserve transients, I figured it was worth a shot. Upon putting it through its paces on a wide variety of styles of music, Bob was right. This multiband compressor allows you to boost perceived loudness without compromising the source material to a degree that few, if any, other plugins do.
It's an unpredictable bug. It happens to me from time to time (once ever fifty times?) too. What you can try is: 1. save your current setting as a preset 2. uninstantiate the compressor 3 save & 4. close the project 5. reopen the project 6. reinsert the compressor and 7. choose the preset and the the meters might work again. Simply quitting and restarting Logc may also do it. As I said, it is an unpredictable bug. I think it is graphical, because, as you said, the compressor is still working when this happens.
It's much more helpful if you can provide *actual details* that people can check. What plugins cause this, is it all of them, or do some of them work ok? Mono or stereo channels? What software versions you are running etc.
Make sure you haven't done something like enabled "Output ess only" as in these modes these plugins will only output parts of the audio that you have targetted them for processing (which might be nothing at all). Are you hearing *audio* on that channel when the compressor meters are not working (double-check, you're sure what you are *hearing* is *that* channel, and not some other routing...?)
Also, when the RX plugin is bypassed, and you're playing audio through it, and you can see the compressor meters move - when you enable the RX plugin, do the compressor meters slowly return to zero, or do they just freeze in place where they are?
(The problem is very obvious here. I just have one audio (guitar) track with a compressor on it. The meter does not work at all. The effects are clearly heard but the meter (or graph) is dead. This is the case during listening, recording and playback. It seems to be a bug. **)
Example...my Shadow hills mastering compressors vu needles will not move until I grab the plugin and move its position on screen, as I am moving it the meters spring to life. When I stop moving it and continue to hold the mouse button it works as it should. When I release the mouse button vu stops moving.
I demo'ed this, and when (if?) this goes on sale it will be mine. The price is steep for me. The sound is great though. It does take a bit to figure out how to use it though. I absolutely LOVED this on mixbuss.
This is not a tool for squashing and smashing stuff. Although I'm sure it can do that (I've never tried yet) what it really shines at is mix bus processing with 1-2dB of gain reduction on each side. The transformer switching is nice but it is subtle (like the real thing) and you're going to need great monitoring to truly appreciate it. The fact that the DSP load is so low makes it an ideal choice when DSP is being consumed by other effects or users with less than a Quad/Octo.
Although I can't compare the plug-in version to the hardware, I know that the Shadow Hills Mastering compressor makes incredibly good things in my mixes. I fondly use it for drum ambience, vocal compression, and of course in master bus. The optical and discrete sections give me great independece in the usage of the tool. You can enchant a mix with it.
I use this plugin on 90% of everything I master, and just about every track on drums. You wont find a compressor plugin that can be tweaked as much as this one. The Nickel/Iron/Steel switch is amazing as well. It boosts cleanly, but on high gain settings you can still use this plug, and it can distort musically if you need that sound.
The interface can seem to have an overwhelming amount of options at first but it actually has neither too few or too many parameters to deal with. This plugin left me in disbelief at how I could get such good results so quickly without a heavy price tag.
My final, go-to compressor and general "transformer" colorizer. I am constantly comparing it to other UA and different vendor compressors and it never fails to impress me with its capabilities and musical character. I think it is especially good on group or master buss applications that need its power. I almost always use it in a mastering situation as well. Paired with the Manley Massive, the Neve 1073, the LA2/1176/Pultec trio and the Ampex plug, it is one of the must have components from UA. In my book, it justifies the purchase of a quad (or octo) card, alone. Well done!
I used to work on the hardware version in a big studio in Egypt three years ago , and since that time I'm trying to find that sharp attack and sweet release in all plugins that I found but no one can reach that peak.., untill I found UAD version of shadow hills and I must say you'll be shocked if you know what did the hardware do coz every knob is doing 99% the same ... Fantastic emulation
I make Big Room, Melbourne Bounce and Trap Music. I've had to demo this plug-in many times before being convinced. It is not one of those "plug and play"/"abc" compressors. It is very clean and unique sounding but requires a lot of experimenting to get satisfactory results. It's basically 2 compressors and a very subtle transformer emulation in one. It Takes a while to figure when to use each of it's parts individually or in combination. I recommend this only to Producers who like to look under the hood and figure how things work otherwise it's a waste of money.
I have been blown away by this plugin. I love the detail you get from this compressor and you don't have to push it all that hard to see big results! I love having three transformers to pick from and in my opinion it's like having three different compressors in one. Even though it's technically a mastering plugin I've had great success with placing it on almost any stereo bus.
Even at high ratios this is one compressor (Mastering or Not) that doesn't Dull or Round off your Transient tips. All compression on or offline does this to your music but companies like Shadowhills and others noticed this is something the future can do without. So a huge Shout to them & Universal Audio for a spot on emulation. The ability to master in different metals is genus in itself. How they made that happen over at Universal Audio is more proof when I spend my money, I get what I paid for 1000%!
This plug in is excellent and very difficult to make it sound bad from what I have heard so far. Only used it on my master so far and I'm very happy with it, it adds a nice "character" to the mix and really smooths everything out and tames the top end. I've tried from minimal amounts of compression to large amounts and so far it hasn't sounded bad when used in extreme ways. Really impressed.
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