Voxengo Polysquasher

Music production entails several steps until the final product is released, and a crucial part of that process lies in mastering the audio. Audio plug-ins should be nothing new to music producers, who oftentimes utilize them to bring out the best of their music.

Voxengo Polysquasher is a mastering compressor plugin, and it works to make transparent compression possible by preserving the fidelity of all the elements in the mix, whilst simultaneously managing to make the mix sound cohesive and uniform. This is done through the proprietary Voxengo compression algorithm, which can be adjusted per the user's needs.

To use this plug-in, users will have to load it into any audio host application that supports AudioUnit, AAX, or VST plugins. Mainstream solutions should have no problem with that.

Back to the plug-in itself: multiple options are available to users. Those who wish to keep it simple may choose to only modify the threshold and ratio values, and to good effect. Real-time gain reduction, waveform graphs, as well as full multichannel operation are additionally available.

For those who wish to get more in-depth with their compression, the plug-in also offers some advanced settings, which allow one to create their own compressor modes that can be saved for future use.