A free exciter and loudness plugin for mixing and mastering: brilliance and weight to polish your recordings, samples and tracks.
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Click again for PLUSH mode transformation.
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PLUSH
WHAT IS PLUSH?
PLUSH combines a brilliance enhancer — an exciter for air and sizzle — with a loudness stage in one window, true-peak limited at the output.
BRILLIANCE
Air is a 12 kHz shelf. Sizzle adds harmonics above 6 kHz. Both combines the two.
INFLATE
Adds harmonic density in three bands. Material gains presence and perceived loudness.
THE PROCESS
PLUSH makes no choices for you and holds no generative AI.
TWO ENGINES, ONE FINISH
Brilliance on top, weight underneath — a finishing plugin for the end of a mix or mastering chain.
- Air — 12 kHz shelf
- Sizzle — exciter above 6 kHz
- Both — extra presence at 6 + 10 kHz
- Inflate — full-band, Low/Med/Fat
- 8× oversampled · true-peak limited
- 12-dot peak meters in + out
- Input + output gain
- Click any field on or off
CHARACTER
Two characters of brightness and one of weight, modelled loosely on familiar finishing tools.
All shaping is inspired by
- Air
- Sizzle
- Both
- Inflate
- Peak metering
- Gain staging
All shaping is inspired by
- Air-band mastering EQs
- Tube exciters
- Loudness curves
- Console saturation
- Tape weight
- Mastering-room gain staging
TECH SPECS
FORMATS
- macOS: AU · VST3 · Standalone app
- Windows: VST3 · Standalone app
- Universal binary · Apple Silicon + Intel
- Free download
AUDIO
- 32-bit float internal
- 44.1–192 kHz
- Mono and stereo
ENGINE
- Brilliance: Air · Sizzle · Both
- Inflate: full-band (Low/Med/Fat), optional 3-band Linkwitz-Riley @ 240 Hz + 2.4 kHz
- 8× oversampling · true-peak limited (−1 dBTP)
- 12-dot peak meters in + out
SYSTEM & I/O
- Runs in any DAW with AU or VST3, on macOS and Windows
- Full parameter automation
- Input + output gain, −60 to +12 dB
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