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LUFS at a first sight! ❤

The visual effect looks like.. sandstorm

Just tried it. Fiddled with it for a literal minute and achieved something really nice instantly. It's like how my brain would compress something if it had its way. Very nice.

When doing a/b maybe consider looping a short part of the song so we can truely hear the difference. Since we aren’t familiar with the source material it’s hard to tell sometimes

Sorry about the noise, Wytse! :D

Holy crap. I do live music mix downs for radio as my day job, and this is a tool I have to use.

So glad you reviewed this! It’s excellent for orchestra.

Thanks for calling this plugin to my attention! With over 1,000 plugs in my studio, I always love finding something that actually compliments the other tools in my arsenal to let me tackle mixing situations better, and buying this supported a small company, which I always love to do! The workflow on this one is quite ergonomic: I'd recommend using this transparent compressor/expander early in the effect chain to constrain overly-dynamic material like vocals before contouring the transients with other compressors, to glue the drum bus or other stems together, or as an upward comp early on the master bus, but I'm sure I'll discover more uses on reverb, as well. Thanks for the vid! 👍

Hey, they have another plugin, The Optimizer, which costs 55 USD in bundle with this compressor. "The Optimizer uses the same compression engine as the APU Loudness Compressor, but benefits from the full audio waveform instead of real-time measurements."... I guess this will be the full audio file analyzer that you missed. :)

i like that instead of trying to fiddle your way into a result. you rather choose the result and it achieves it for you

Love your channel. You truly give us true feedback, no bs. Any time i want to buy a new plugin, you're one of the first channels i check before i purchase any. Cheers for the reviews and videos, you're a money and time saver

I just watched this video for the 2nd time, and your description IS actually mind-blowing. One of the best videos you have done! If you wanted to do a full tutorial on this product I think that it would be very helpful to many of us. It kinda changes how one thinks about compression itself. You mentioned just having it instantly scan the file for LUFS reading. I think that the APU optimizer does exactly that. I just purchased both of these and grasping exactly what each of them does, and how they might work together, has been twisting my brain into knots! It's great to see really new approaches to things we have been trying to do for years. And this is a really unique approach! Thanks for a great video!

This joint is crazy dope. The video on their site provides a different take on what it can do. You first learn both input and output ranges, then you increase output where you want it, and then let is learn on the input how to feed it to get the best output LUFS. And then you learn on the output to further optimize the output range for that LUFS. This thing is amazing! Instant buy.

Thanks for the video on this plugin. I saw it advertised recently and checked it out lightly.. When I saw the price I bought it. I haven't had too much time to check it out however, a LUFs compressor? That along with the price got me. I look forward to experimenting with it. Cheers!

This has a lot of potential! Would definitely love to see an updated video once you've put it into practice more.

This being great for video productions is very handy... but seems great for the beginning stages of mixing. Maybe if you become a geek with the settings then it might be a crazy thing to use for mastering.

This is a smarter volume-rider that looks at LUFS instead of Peaks. The great thing is that you can choose what volume it reacts to and how tight you want to dial it in. The fact that it looks at LUFS instead of Peaks is interesting, but not as relevant for most use-cases. What is relevant are the controls, which are great. I almost want to buy it, but I don't really need it in production. I think this will be best for Youtubers and other content creators who make videos, especially with changing locations. I can see this plugin being used both in mixing (every kind of audio) and mastering (specific types of audio, like for a video). In production this doesn't make a lot of sense.. this is more of a simple control for non-optimal recordings on one side, or very subtle smoothening on the other side.

As well as the Novel approach, it also can work in Conventional compressor mode AND points in between...

APU also has APU Loudness Optimizer, which is a standalone application that can optimize an entire track using the same algorithms. Unfortunately there is no ARA support for it yet. Maybe in the future.

I think this woudl be insane on vocals especially, since vocals have such a wide dynamic range and we're always trying to make them roughyl the same loudness! Gotta try it out!