Hello KVR!
It's been a while since we released the Islander and it's time to post it here, as well.
We think we really have something that can help your workflows.
Wavegrove x Handcrafted Labs x Tape Over Mastering present:
HCL ISLANDER v1.1
Islander Vari-Mu compressor with a clipper
Compressor features
- Stereo and Mid-side modes, Linking or Dual Mono.
- Two controls for gain, one for WET and one for DRY.
- Gain Link to inversely mirror your movements between the gain controls, to allow you to blend between wet and dry.
- Threshold to control where the compressor starts to react.
- Attack from 0.2 ms to 40 ms.
- Release from 50 ms to 2000 ms.
- VU meters to gauge your compression.
- Feed-back and feed-forward compression modes.
- Side Chaining with Feed Back and Feed Forward, at both 75 Hz and 150 Hz, and also of course Full Range.
- Mastering-grade clipper allows you to push your LUFS to the limits, and maybe over them.
- Different emphasis styles for wet and dry. The wet side saturates to a brighter tone, while dry saturates to a smoother tone.
- As everything isn’t completely linear, we include Level Calibration too.
- Input and Output gains with +- 16 dB of gain
- Control linking to allow you to control both sides of the compressor with just one set of movements.
- Delta monitoring to let you hear the change from the original signal.
- Oversampling to allow you to get the smoothest operation at the cost of a bit of performance.
For the first time ever there is a Handcrafted Labs based plugin!
Handcrafted Labs is a Ukrainian high end audio company known worldwide for their tube equipment. Their bestseller devices such as Varis and Thermos can be found in numerous studios around the globe. Sergey Rakovich and Gennadii Burzak started their company over twenty years ago in Ukraine, Kiev and since the occupation of Crimea in 2014 they have relocated their business to more stable grounds.
Gennadii has worked in world class classical studios in Kiev as a main technician and his passion shows in every wiring he does. Point to point old school soldering combined with innovative ways to approach the modern needs of engineers.
Tommi Langen from Tape Over Mastering is a mixing and mastering engineer from Finland. His merits include nine #1 albums in Finnish national album chart, mixing and mastering of Emma and Teosto Award-winning records and over fourty releases that have gone gold, platinum or double platinum.
Tommi is also known for his solo music, co-founder of critically acclaimed group Ruger Hauer and in his downtime Langen has toured over forty countries as a FOH engineer. Langen has also wrote an album titled Ukraina in 2013.
Handcrafted Labs and Tommi share a long history together, but first and foremost it's based on sound and engineering quality.
Jussi Jäppinen alias Wavegrove is an entity dedicated to furthering the digital music and audio production process. With insights derived from physics and mastering processes, Wavegrove intends to take the sweat out of the audio work. For now you’ll be left with the blood and tears.
After chasing the sound for a good ten years, Jussi noticed patterns that kept repeating, and thought about automating parts of his mixing process. When you do the same thing over and over again in a mix, it’s clear there could be a tool to do just that.
Islander - the proof is in the name. Heroyam slava!
