This is by no means the only de-esser to work in this way, but it makes a welcome addition to the package, and its wide control range makes it useful on instruments as well as voices. All the usual listen modes are available, so you can hear what the filter is doing and how the processing is affecting the audio in the selected band.
You can adjust the upper and lower limits of the band being processed in three-band mode using a simple slider, and careful setting of these limits can help minimise the lisping artifacts that heavy de-essing often creates. The de-esser can be set to two-band operation, where everything above the crossover frequency is dipped on encountering sibilance, or three-band operation, where frequencies both above and below the sibilance region can be left untouched. Its compressor section also works predictably and smoothly, making it a very practical means of polishing individual tracks or bus mixes. This has a very capable EQ section that is straightforward to operate and sounds musical, as well as being adequately assertive. The first new module I tried was the console strip. Practical benefits of the shell approach include not only its metering, parallel routing and ability to save processor combinations, but the fact that the master bypass button bypasses all the plug-ins in one go, so you can do a true A/B comparison without having to bypass plug-ins individually. A comprehensive metering display resides at the bottom of the window and shows phase, loudness and a spectrum analysis, as well as levels. The first four slots can accept two modules each these will then work in two parallel chains before being summed prior to feeding through the final four slots.
T RACKS 4.9 COMPATIBLE OSX PLUS
The shell has eight insert slots, plus global metering, and an area where the controls of one module at a time can be viewed and adjusted. Once CS Grand has been authorised by the new and more efficient online system, you have the choice of using its modules either as independent plug-ins or within the CS Grand 'shell', which can operate as a stand-alone program or plug-in. These modules join the existing plug-ins, which include emulations of classic gear such as the Fairchild 670 compressor, Pultec's EQP1A tube programme equaliser, and compressors inspired by the classic Universal Audio 1176 and LA2A hardware. The last emulates the dynamics and EQ section of a well-loved British console that I might hazard is solidly built, stately in appearance and logical in operation! British Channel offers four-band parametric equalisation with high- and low-pass filters, a VCA-type compressor and a separate expander/gate. The new modules are the Quad-series multi-band processors, which comprise Quad Comp, Quad Lim and Quad Image, plus De-Esser and British Channel. The five new modules in the CS Grand version of T-Racks are, from top, British Channel, De-Esser, Quad Image, Quad Comp and Quad Limiter. VST, RTAS and Audio Units formats are supported, and T-Racks can be used stand-alone, but there's currently no AAX version. There is 64-bit native support, and oversampling is used in the plug-ins to avoid aliasing distortion that would otherwise occur with non-linear processing. IK have extended their Custom Shop model, first seen in their Amplitube amp simulator, to allow users to demo and buy additional modules from within CS Grand. In its latest CS Grand incarnation, it comprises 10 dynamics processors, three equalisers, a 'British' console channel strip, a de-esser and a multi-band stereo width controller. IK's flagship suite of plug-in processors continues to grow, with the addition of a channel strip and several handy multi-band modules.ĭeveloped originally for mastering, but also very useful for mixing, IK Multimedia's T-Racks is one of the best-known plug-in suites around.
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