Maximus | musicradar.com

Image-Line Maximus $189

The MusicRadar Team, Thu 3 Jan, 10:18 am GMT

The display enables you to see exactly what's going on.

Manufacturer's description

Maximus will deliver transparent peak limiting and volume maximization without coloration of the processed sound. However, Maximus is much more than a pristine quality Mastering Maximizer, it's also a Compressor, Limiter, Noise Gate, Expander, Ducker and De-esser. Maximus excels equally well as a final mastering plugin or as a per-track effect. Lock and load.

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Verdict

MusicRadar rating: 4.5 of 5

Pros

Great visual display. Incredibly fun and flexible. Mix knob for parallel compression. Multiband stereo spread controls Informative documentation.

Cons

Interface is a bit murky. More bands would be nice!

The bottom line

Maximus’s modern approach to multiband compression means that it’s capable of any dynamics task – and more besides – whilst remaining as easy to use as one could hope. And it sounds great too!

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