Dead Quiet00
Free 3-day demo · AU · VST3 · Standalone · macOS & Windows
A mastering limiter built to get your track up to level and keep it musical. Clean peak control, a clipper for the last few dB and a release that moves with the groove. Push it for the club, ease off for streaming.
Set GAIN and CEILING, pick ANALOGUE or DIGITAL, and watch the gain reduction rail show exactly what the limiter and the clipper are doing, in mid and side or left and right. Lookahead and oversampling keep true peaks where you put them.
Set the release in milliseconds, or switch to BPM and lock it to note values from 1/2 to 1/32. Pull the tempo from your DAW and the limiter breathes in time with the track instead of fighting it.
The built-in clipper takes the sharpest transients so the limiter does not have to. Run it SOFT or HARD, let AUTO mode set it for you, and blend with LIMIT / CLIP. Add odd and even harmonic COLOUR for extra weight.
Limit both channels, the mid only or the side only, set the stereo link and choose how the side follows, so the width you built survives the master.
DELTA lets you hear only what the limiter removes, loudness-matched bypass stops louder fooling you, and short-term LUFS, RMS and true-peak readouts tell you where you have landed.
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| True-peak limiter | Lookahead limiting with Off, 2x or 4x oversampling. Gain up to +20 dB, ceiling from -20 to 0 dB in 0.05 dB steps. |
| Limiter modes | ANALOGUE for weight and density, DIGITAL for clean, transparent level. |
| Release | Manual in milliseconds, or BPM-synced from 1/2 to 1/32, with DAW tempo sync. |
| Clipper | SOFT or HARD, AUTO mode, and a LIMIT / CLIP blend. |
| COLOUR | Odd and even harmonic stages, each with drive, frequency and amount. |
| MID / SIDE | Limit both, mid or side, with stereo link and side follow. |
| Sidechain | Sidechain high-pass so the low end does not drive the limiter. |
| Monitoring | Stereo, mono, mid, side, DELTA and sidechain listen, plus loudness-matched bypass. |
| Metering | Gain reduction rail (M/S or L/R plus CLIP), short-term LUFS, RMS and true peak. |
| Dither | Off, 24-bit or 16-bit. |
| Presets and A / B | 75 factory presets in five groups, your own user presets, and instant A / B. |
| Skins | Light and Dead Quiet. Look only, same sound. |
