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Important: For hygiene and software licensing reasons, some items are only eligible for our Money Back Guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging with all software still "unregistered." Details of exclusions are shown within the product descriptions. Products include:
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This table provides an overview of your statutory consumer rights, compared with our standard returns policy and optional extended money back guarantee and warranty.
| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 30 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
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Key Features
Blue Cat Energy Pack is a bundle containing five dynamics processing plug-ins. Comprised of DP Meter Pro, Dynamics, MB-5 Dynamix, MB-7 Mixer and Protector, the Energy Pack enables you to process your audio dynamics in any way you need to. From gating, multi-band compression, broadband compression, expansion and limiting, you can add punch, tame transients and enhance sustain to create professional and polished mixes.
Each plug-in offers comprehensive monitoring of all aspects of your signal, from gain reduction to the compression ratio and threshold along with frequency mapping with MB-5 Dynamix. All these plug-ins offer unique side chaining capabilities using MIDI or automation control. They can thus be used for a wide range of dynamics-based side chain effects.
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Blue Cat DP Meter Pro is a customisable audio level metering tool which combines streamlined workflow with advanced features for professional studios. Ideal for mastering applications or post-production work, the DP Meter Pro lets you monitor the peak, RMS and crest factor levels of your audio. Offering five different scaling methods including the popular K-System scaling made popular by Bob Katz alongside the ability to create your own, DP Meter Pro puts you in charge of your levels to ensure broadcast or streaming regulations are met.
Historic metering information is saved in the Histograms, allowing you to have precise monitoring of the dynamic range of your track over time. Highlighting the evolution of your envelope over time, DP Meter Pro displays everything in a colour-coded and well-labelled interface to make it easy to follow. Real-time information can be saved and printed into your host software as automation curves to recall exact changes in your levels in future projects and sessions.
Regardless of what audio file you are monitoring, DP Meter Pro offers mid/side and stereo modes, allowing you to check levels of only the side channels or both left and right independently. Advanced side-chaining controls and MIDI functionality allows you to monitor your levels against an external trigger, controlling everything via MIDI CC messages. With MIDI CC, the possibilities are endless, from voice-over and ducking to side chain compression, multiple tracks monitoring or dynamic stereo enhancement. It is also possible to control external MIDI hardware (such as synths, MIDI effects), video effects or lighting systems with an audio signal.
Blue Cat Dynamics is a fully-featured all-in-one dynamics processing solution. Multi-functional, Dynamics can be used as a compressor, limiter, gate, expander and waveshaper in one plug-in. Powered by a two-threshold system, you can freely tweak the response of the plug-in to alter the behaviour of the dynamics processing to suit the needs of your audio. Employing multiple filters to control the target frequencies for dynamics processing, you can more accurately control the envelopes of instruments with specific bandwidth from bass guitar to bass drum.
Multiple styles of compression are available from peak and RMS with both VCA and Opto-style compressors available, offering a wider range of tonality and character in your dynamics processing. This coupled with an interface that delivers a variety of monitoring solutions to highlight the envelope and transient response and gain reduction ensures that you are in full control over your dynamics processing for any track or full mix in your project. Compatible with mid/side and channel linking functionality ensures that the Blue Cat Dynamics will quickly become your go-to in the studio whereas high-quality dynamics processing is required.
Blue Cat MB-5 Dynamix is an all-in-one, five-band dynamics processor. Functioning as a multi-band compressor, limiter, gate, expander, waveshaper or any combination of all modes simultaneously, the MB-5 Dynamix is the only processor you need to tame transients, add punch and reduce unwanted peaking in your signal. The multi-band functionality of MB-5 ensures that you can treat each band of your signal independently, applying different processing to ensure the best results for your project. Whether that's applying less compression on the low-end of a kick drum to let the sustain bloom or clamping down the highs of a rock vocalist to maintain a consistent signal, MB-5 Dynamix will get you to your destination.
Boasting a myriad of visual feedback systems, you will be able to monitor the full range of parameters within your signal. View everything from the in/out levels, dynamic range, compression ratio and much more. All housed within a streamlined interface which will help you to quickly achieve the sound you're after. In addition, the powerful MIDI and automation capabilities connect perfectly to your DAW, enabling side-chain compression with even more advanced signal-dependent effects.
Blue Cat MB-7 Mixer is an innovative six-band, multi-band mixing plug-in. Dividing your audio source into seven independent frequency bands, MB-7 allows you to process them individually as if they were separate tracks using the built-in FX or by using third-party plug-ins. Each band is provided with the full range of controls you will find on any traditional mixer including mute, solo, bypass, stereo spread and pan, enabling you to isolate frequencies for more precise control over your audio manipulation. Perfect for working on either a full mix or single track, MB-7 offers a unique take on multi-band mixing by allowing you to process each frequency band with up to four internal FX plug-ins per band or by hosting your favourite third-party plug-in to use them in extremely creative and new ways.
Optimised for performance, MB-7 Mixer includes latency compensation to ensure that regardless of the CPU of each FX within your chain, your signal will never suffer from phasing issues. Other optimisation settings include advanced MIDI capabilities, enabling you to combine with a variety of other Blue Cat plug-ins for multi-instance integration and sidechaining possibilities.
Blue Cat Protector is a precise 0dB brickwall limiter with a user-adjustable dynamic response. Increase the perceived loudness of your individual tracks or full mixes, control the dynamics of your audio and protect your output from overshooting to avoid unwanted distortion and peaking, all with one streamlined and powerful plug-in. With transparent frequency response across the full range and lookahead capabilities, Protector is the perfect solution for mix-buss processing.
Although featuring only a small number of controls, Protector offers a variety of different tonalities. Everything from transparent and subtle gain to heavy distortion and pumping is possible to match any style, genre or instrument within your mix. The compact array of controls is presented in a streamlined interface with a selection of views including peak and RMS meters and a custom dynamics histogram, offering a variety of visual feedback cues to monitor the dynamics of your tracks. Offering advanced MIDI CC output capabilities, Protector becomes more than a traditional limiter, offering sidechaining possibilities and modulation from external sources for unique sound design capabilities.
