Out now · Saturation bench

win win. loudness that shows its work.

An ecosystem of six reorderable modules works as one chain. Shape punch, texture and density, steer the frequencies that matter, and build loudness with controlled peaks. Learn tests different chains on your audio to find a direction.

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Focus view. Click a station to open it, hover a knob to read what it does.

The rack

Six stations at a glance.

Each module displays its gain change and contribution to the chain's crest reduction. Hover a module to read what it does.

See all six working together →

Mirror EQ

Shape what hits the processor.

Cut or boost frequencies before a module and Mirror applies the inverse EQ after it. Change how the compressor or saturator responds to those frequencies without leaving the same static EQ curve at the output.

Point it at one station or the whole rack. On the Limiter the EQ steers only what its detector hears, and on Fast and Slow Comp a High Pass band keeps bass out of the detector without changing the tone.

Drag the band and the Mirror amount. At 1.00 the band steers the station and is undone on the way out.
Pick a root note and set the Q: narrow lands on each harmonic, wide covers the space between.

Musical bands

Process by notes, not just frequencies.

Turn any band Musical and it stops being one frequency. Pick a root note and the band repeats up the harmonic series of that note, so the processing lands on the music instead of across it.

Automate the root and the whole shape moves with the progression - saturation, compression and tone that jump around inside the key rather than sitting still.

Before and after

Hear it at a matched peak.

Choose one of ten real before and after clips. Switch between Dry and Win Win as it plays, then compare their measured peak and integrated LUFS below.

Bring out the room and make the drums louder without losing punch or low-end weight.

Pick a source and press play.

The delivered files are matched to within 0.1 dB at their decoded sample peaks. The bars show peak level; LUFS shows whole clip integrated loudness.

From the home lab / 11 short films

A little watching.
A lot more hearing.

Eleven short lessons in colour, punch and loudness. See the moves, hear the difference, then try them in your own mix.

Made by Amit. Best with headphones. Neap on YouTube ↗

Amit Levy, who makes Neap plugins Low Tide Studio

The maker

Made at the home lab

I'm Amit Levy. I mix records at Low Tide Studio, and every plugin here started as a move I already make by hand.

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