Overloud GEM Dopamine
2 Signal Enhancer Plugins
Dopamine: The New Way to Enhance Your Tracks
Overloud DOPAMINE is the emulation of two classic tape encoding processors, used as enhancers.
It is designed to revive individual tracks as well as complex mixes while preserving their natural tone. Overloud DOPAMINE does not introduce unpleasant artifacts like exciters do: in fact, it dynamically balances the harmonics that naturally exist in the original audio rather than generating non-existent harmonics by synthesizing them.
Features
- Replicates the enhancing side of the tape noise reduction units
- Simulates two classic processors: the 180 and the 361
- Simulates two cartridges: the A-Type and the Stressor
- Naturally enhances the audio by balancing the harmonic content
- Allows to tweak the dynamic action of the effect
- Very low CPU usage: you can open the plugin on each track of the session with a negligible CPU load
- Lots of presets designed in real mixing sessions
- Scribble Strips: take notes anywhere on the plugin panel
How does it work?
Overloud DOPAMINE is a particular kind of enhancer used in early forms of magnetic tapes noise reduction. The tape was encoded by dynamically brightening the signal then while playing back, the tape was decoded by taking off the extra brightness and, consequently, reducing the tape hiss.
The audio engineers realized that the tape encoding process was a desirable effect on many kinds of audio so they started to use this process in parallel with the original tracks to add liveliness. Overloud DOPAMINE replicates this process.
Sidechain Filter
You can tweak a Low Cut filter on the Sidechain to reduce the compressor sensitivity to low frequencies. This is particularly useful to control the amount of "pumping" effect, for program audio with a lot of pulsating bass frequencies.
System Requirements
Mac
Dopamine is available as Audio Unit, VST, AAX32 (ProTools 10.3.5 and above), AAX64 (ProTools 11 and 12) plugins, as well as a standalone application.
Both 32bit and 64bit are natively supported.
You can authorize Dopamine on up to three computers that you own and one USB stick with a simple one-click software procedure (no hardware key needed).
- CPU: Intel Core i3 1.4GHz or better
- RAM: 4GB minimum
- Screen Resolution: 1280x800 minimum
- OS: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and above are supported.
Dopamine is available as VST, AAX32 (ProTools 10.3.5 and above), AAX64 (ProTools 11 and 12) plugins, as well as a standalone application.
32bit and 64bit are natively supported.
You can authorize Dopamine on up to three computers that you own and one USB stick with a simple one-click software procedure (no hardware key needed).
- CPU: Intel Core i3 1.4GHz or better
- RAM: 4GB minimum
- Screen Resolution: 1280x800 minimum
- OS: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10 are supported.
Supported DAWs
- Pro Tools 10.3.5 and above (Mac & Windows)
- Logic Pro 9 and above (Mac only)
- Cubase 6 and above (Mac & Windows
- Ableton Live 6 and above (Mac & Windows)
- Digital Performer 7 and above (Mac & Windows)
- Nuendo 5 and above (Mac & Windows)
- MainStage 2 and above (Mac only)
- Garage Band 10 and above (Mac only)
- Final Cut Pro X and above (Mac only)
- Studio One 1 and above (Mac & Windows)
- Reaper (Mac & Windows)
- Sonar X3 and Platinum (Windows only)
System Requirements
- MacOS 10.9 Mavericks and above
- Windows 10 and above (32 and 64-bit)
- Intel, AMD, or Apple Silicon CPU
- 4GB RAM or more
- 1280x800 screen resolution or higher
- Includes 3 activations per license
Plugin Formats
AAX Native, AU, VST2, and VST3
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