High transparency, extremely high quality audio processing throughout the whole signal path

You may think digital processors are transparent in general, and of a quality high enough for audio mastering. That's not always true. Very simple processing like a filter or a dynamic gain change can literally ruin your sound without any possibility of rescue if it’s not performed at the highest possible quality.

T-RackS 3 delivers incredible purity, transparency and fidelity that is far superior to the vast majority of plug-ins you could compare it with. If you are familiar with the sound of top quality analog and digital hardware equalizers that are used daily in top mastering houses, you'll immediately recognize the quality and purity typical of those units here, and if you're not, you'll experience what high quality equalization means.

Oversampling perfected. Many digital processors use oversampling to achieve better sound. Unfortunately, many of them, under critical listening sessions, can be found to achieve no significantly better (or even slightly worse) results than the regular sampling rate option. This is because the upsampling and downsampling processes are not done at an adequate level of quality, in other words: typically what is improved by running a processor at double sampling frequency is partially compromised by the loss of quality in the upsampling and downsampling process. There are only a few pieces of gear, mainly extremely expensive hardware that really realize oversampling the way it should be done. T-RackS 3 is one of them. We wanted to offer the same quality of the highest caliber mastering tools, and the result is a process that has no side effect at all on the sound: total transparency. So what you hear is exactly the same sound of the processor running at double sampling rate, with no side effects.

Classic T-RackS Compressor*

The T-RackS classic tube compressor emulates that classic, analog, hi-end vintage gear used in mastering applications. This will give you that big, warm sound typical of highly acclaimed hardware devices. This compressor has some unique features that make it very flexible but always very musical and creative.

Classic T-RackS Multi-band Limiter*

This three-band peak limiter can make the mix even louder by reducing unwanted peaks. The peak limiting action is made separately on the three bands (low, mid, high). You will have a very loud master, without clipping, though as with any of these processors, use care not to over-do it. Leaving the output knob set to 0 dB means that the limiter output signal can’t go beyond –0.05 dBfs.

Classic T-RackS Clipper*

This clipping stage module is useful every time you need to cut out all the peaks that keep the average level of a signal too low. Peak clipping is very often used in mastering because it's in most cases more transparent than peak limiting.

Classic T-RackS Equalizer*

T-RackS Classic Equalizer consists of a high quality six-band parametric EQ, specially designed to achieve high-end performance in a mastering environment. It consists of:

• 4th order High-pass filter, from 16 Hz to 5.3 kHz
• Low shelving type filter, from 30 Hz to 200 Hz
• Low-mid peaking type filter, from 33 Hz to 5.4 kHz, variable Q
• High-mid peaking type filter, from 200 Hz to 17.5 kHz, variable Q
• High shelving type filter, from 750 Hz to 8.5 kHz
• 4th order Low-pass filter, from 200 Hz to 18 kHz

Classic T-RackS Equalizer can now be used in Stereo or MS modes.