DYNAMIC GRADING – DYNAMICS PLUGIN FOR MIXING
Dynamic Grading is a dynamics plugin for mixing that controls punch, body, and floor in one coherent model, so tracks and buses sit naturally in the mix without side effects.
A modern dynamics plugin designed for mixing tracks and buses.
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Traditional dynamics tools force you to translate musical intent into indirect parameters like threshold, ratio, and attack. That translation is where guesswork begins, especially when you’re trying to make tracks sit naturally in a mix.
Dynamic Grading removes that translation step. Instead of abstract controls, you work directly with punch, body, and floor, shaping different regions of a signal’s dynamics with clarity and intention. You see where dynamics happen and adjust them where they matter.
The result is faster, more confident mixing decisions on tracks and buses, without sacrificing control or versatility. Dynamic Grading isn’t another compressor. It’s a coherent dynamics model designed to keep you focused on sound, not settings.
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Dynamic Grading goes far beyond traditional dynamics processing by taking control of three distinct parts of the dynamic range, each serving a specific purpose.
Independently adjust compression or expansion ratios in the Punch, Body, and Floor of your signal for nuanced control.
Think of it like a transient shaper. Make instruments more present and upfront, or push them farther away to create depth in your mix.
Here’s where a lot of the action happens. Apply compression or expansion to only the core dynamics of the sound, without affecting transient clarity.
Make your mix shine and clean out unwanted noise. Or use this to increase or decrease reverb or room. It’s simple and almost like magic!
Dynamic Grading comes packed with features designed to achieve great sound and intuitive control without leaving you lost in a forest of knobs.
Stop guessing threshold and ratio values. Gain real-time visual insight into your audio’s dynamic range. View the input and output signals side by side to shape your sound intuitively.
The easy to use sidechain tilt filter guarantees natural-sounding results by properly accounting for the spectral balance of your audio. Our Magic Eye guides your way to the sweet spot.
Achieve accurate and smooth dynamics with Auto-Lookahead and Natural Release Ballistics.
This is one of the few dynamics plugins offering support for multichannel audio formats like Atmos. Shape, mix and master everything from mono tracks to 3D Audio beds and masters up to 16 channels. All with continuously variable channel link.
Automatically detect a signal’s body range to jumpstart your workflow.
Hear how punch, body, and floor work together in one coherent dynamics model, on real tracks and buses.
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Dynamics as Structure, Not Triggers Most dynamics tools still revolve around a single decision point. One threshold, one behaviour. You can add multiband processing, sidechains and clever timing, but the underlying idea rarely changes. The signal crosses a line and something reacts.
There’s no shortage of articles explaining how to use audio compression. In fact, we’ve written plenty ourselves to support the audio community. From tutorials and settings guides to plugin walkthroughs, there’s more information than ever on attack times, ratios and gain reduction.
If you’ve just installed Dynamic Grading, welcome. We built this tool to give you a different way of working with dynamics. Instead of relying on single thresholds, fixed ratios and envelopes, Dynamic Grading is based on histograms and three dynamic zones: punch, body and floor.
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