I can't answer any of your questions directly but I do know that SKnote recently did a similar "Dolby Trick" high end enhancer plugin that sits within your budget:LGK_Dude wrote:Just tried the demo for Overloud Dopamine and this thing sounds noticeably better than my usual suspects for this type of thing (Exciters, EQ, Saturation) especially on vocals, but I dont know if I can justify the price as an artist and not a professional mixer. Do Overloud ever have better sales, or are they the type of company that only have intro sales and thats it? If this was priced in the $50 range it would have been a no brainer. Any chance it will eventually get there?
http://www.sknoteaudio.com/wp/index.php ... ur-tracks/
I can't compare it to Dopamine as I don't have either, though!