Acustica Audio Ivory 5 2023

Ivory is a VST/AAX/AU plugin suite that includes 2 equalizers, 2 compressors, 2 dynamic equalizers, and to top it all off, a powerful mastering limiter.

Ivory 5 is a transparent yet extremely musical processing suite that shines on pretty much anything you throw at it. Whether you're a mastering engineer looking for the utmost control in the studio, or you're producing and mixing your next big hit and need powerful, versatile tools to shape your subgroups, Ivory has got you covered.

Ivory 5 adds exciting additional features and a new, powerful emulation to your arsenal.

The new upgrades include:

A new SOA control added to the Ivory dynamic EQ, as well as in the stereo version.
All preamps fine-tuned according to the latest industry standards.
Improvements in CPU resources consumption.
Last but not least, a new, powerful mastering limiter.

Ivory 5 MAL-2: The Ultimate Mastering Limiter
Ivory 5 MAL-2 is Acustica's own interpretation of a 2-band peak limiter inspired by a famous mastering dynamics processor from a well-known British manufacturer. Warning: It's intentionally not a 1:1 copy of the hardware, so don't expect the exact same behavior!
This plugin is the perfect choice to control even the highest peaks if inserted at the end of the audio chain in a traditional way; however, it can also be used as an extreme tone-shaping tool on individual tracks.

To use both limiters, you need to turn on HF; this enables a crossover at 2kHz that splits the incoming signal into two bands, and allows you to work separately on different portions of the spectrum (LF and HF). When “HF On” is bypassed, the processor becomes a classic wide-band limiter.

For more information on how to get the most out of Ivory 5, see the user's manual.