Sound Magic has released Neo Loudness, a comprehensive tool designed to control loudness.
Neo Loudness not only includes traditional compressors and limiters, but it also features a new type of Maximizer.
Sound Magic says "For years, producers have wanted their music to be louder and louder. So the brickwall limiter became the main weapon for getting to that maximum volume. However, there is always a price to pay when pushing to the extreme. The music would tend to lose its "breath" and sound too "tight". Sound Magic has spent years designing a solution for this issue and has developed a new algorithm that can make the sound as loud as a brickwall limiter (even achieving within -5dB Average RMS), without destroying the original natural sounds. Neo Loudness keeps the "breath" of the original music."
The Sound Magic Neo Loudness Algorithm is based on psychological acoustics, the science that shows how human ears are less sensitive to loudness when it reaches certain ranges. Neo Loudness uses this area to compress the audio signal. When using traditional limiters - and under heavy limiting - music will sound very tight and breathless. The main instruments will sound like they are being pushed way forward. With Neo Loudness, the overall result is a more natural sound while the imaging of the instruments is hardly changed.
With heavy limiting and clipping, a traditional limiter tends to generate more odd harmonic distortion than even harmonic distortion. Overall, Neo Loudness tends to generate less harmonic distortion altogether and the harmonics that are generated tend to be the even ones, giving a warmer and more natural sound.
Neo Loudness is also an all-purpose dynamic processor which could be the ideal choice for many situations.
- Users can combine compressors, limiters and a Maximizer within Neo Loudness gives them an excellent dynamic processor in a mixing project.
- In a recording session, Neo Loudness will help users better control the loudness of their recording. The low CPU usage and fast response time make Neo Loudness great for real-time dynamic processing.
- Neo Loudness will give users more controls on the overall sound with its meticulous envelope controls in a mastering project.
Neo Loudness is priced at €69 and is provided as a Windows VST effect or Add-on for Supreme Piano 2.
