Blue Cat Audio - Protector

Protector is Blue Cat Audio's 0 dB stereo brickwall limiter. Its main job is guarding the master bus against overs and adding perceived loudness, but its adjustable response makes it a useful creative limiter on individual tracks as well.

How it works

The controls are simple, but one of them makes all the difference: the dynamics response can be moved continuously from transparent limiting to colourful distortion. Add optional lookahead, stereo link and a DC filter, and you've got everything from clean peak control to pumping, crunchy heavy limiting. Large zoomable peak, RMS and gain reduction meters, a loudness boost readout and a dynamics histogram show exactly what it's doing.

Where it fits

The end of the master bus for safe, louder bounces, and on drums or bass when you want limiting as an effect. Side chain input opens up ducking tricks too. Zero latency unless lookahead is on.

Features

• 0 dB brickwall peak limiter and waveshaper
• Continuous dynamics response from transparent to distorted
• Optional lookahead
• Stereo link control and DC filter
• Zoomable peak, RMS and gain reduction meters
• Loudness boost monitoring and dynamics histogram
• Side chain capability

System requirements

• Mac: macOS 10.9 or later, Intel or Apple Silicon
• Windows: Windows Vista, 7, 8, 10 or 11, SSE2 processor
• VST, VST3, AU (Mac only) and AAX

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