When it comes to drums, the importance of 'feel' can't be overstated.

Whether it's a pumping house beat or an understated jazz groove, drums often serve as the foundation that ties our music together. For this reason, we want the beats we hear to feel just right and naturally flow through us, as something we feel both intrinsically and instinctively.

When it comes to making music, it's important that this frictionless experience of rhythms extends beyond our listening experience and into our production process as well - we want to be able to quickly act on our immediate creative instincts, without barriers or clunky workflows getting in the way.

This tool was designed to make gain matching easy and fast!

Have you ever seen a plugin that sounds so much better when you put it on? And later discovered that it just adds 1 dB of gain on everything?

Or maybe a new compressor, that has a fixed 2dB steps output knob? So that comparing before and after is a pain?

Or maybe a saturation plugin with no output gain, so that it's almost unusable?

It is impossible to overstate the importance of the final mastering stage when mixing, as it can make or break a recording. The FG-X Mastering Processor is Slate Digital's award-winning mastering plugin that combines an ultra-transparent compressor, the industry's most coveted loudness enhancer, and a comprehensive metering panel. FG-X can make your mixes louder without altering the dynamics, removing punch, or skewing your mix balances.

INTELLIGENT TRANSIENT PRESERVATION

The FG-Level Loudness enhancer module uses a proprietary process called "Intelligent Transient Preservation”, or ITP. ITP looks ahead at your mix peaks and optimizes a custom saturation curve that best preserves its characteristics. For example, if it sees a kick drum, it will create a saturation curve that best preserves low end energy. If it sees a snare drum, it will saturate it with a curve that best retains midrange punch. Overall, the ITP will keep your mixes punchy and dynamic while making them competitively loud.