There are also AAX DSP and AAX AudioSuite versions. The native version of the Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor is available in VST2, VST3, AU, and AAX native formats. A free 14-day demo version is available now at the Plugin Alliance website, so you can try the plug-in even before its official release date. Unfortunately, the price hasn’t been announced yet. The Plugin Alliance / Brainworx Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor will go on sale on July 15, 2019. There’s also a sidechain filter, which you can use to prevent low frequencies from triggering the compression, for “ultra-tight mixes”. The steel, nickel, and iron settings each have distinct sonic characteristics, according to Plugin Alliance.įeatures available only in the plug-in include a parallel mix control and an external sidechain input. Like the original, the plug-in lets you choose from three different output transformers.
The plug-in comes with all the bits that make the Shadow Hills so special, including dual-stage optical and VCA compression. Which, at a price of almost 8000 bucks, is one of those units that only a few of us get to enjoy in real life. Just like the UAD version, the native Plugin Alliance / Brainworx Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor closely emulates the original. And with the BX Shadow Hill now available natively, you have an interesting alternative to Acustica Audio Aquamarine. It’s probably too early to conjure up the end of UAD, but the more native alternatives become available, the fewer reasons there are for buying into the closed ecosystem. The Brainworx Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor isn’t the first plug-in leaving the exclusive world of UAD, and our guess is that it won’t be the last.
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