With Dynamic Grading, you can precisely shape and control different parts of your audio’s dynamic range. Thanks to its dynamic histograms and intuitive graphical control, advanced dynamic processing becomes easier than ever before.

Land A Punch

Hit your listeners with precise impact. Create depth by placing tracks up front, or at a distance.

Keep the Body in Shape

Usher tracks to their right place in the mix. Make instruments solid as a rock, or shake the dust off and make it groove.

Swipe the Floor

Dial in just the right amount of detail and reverb. Clean up unwanted noise and make your mix shine.

Videos

Name: Playfair Audio Dynamic Grading (Serial Nr + Download)
Brand: Playfair Audio
SKU: 1433-2587
Price: 245.85 AUD
Availability: InStock

The best way to discover the power of Dynamic Grading is to see it in action.

Headphones recommended!

Dynamic Grading transforms the way you think about audio dynamics. You’ll never want to go back to using compressors.

How It Works

Introducing: The Dynamic Histogram

Dynamic Grading is centered around dynamic histograms. Imagine a really fast-moving level meter, and a superhuman statistician sitting in front of it and gathering statistics of the readings over time.

This kind of graph tells us a lot about audio dynamics. It reveals the dynamic range (the highest and lowest readings) as well which loudness regions are most prominent and how much perceived loudness varies (= how dynamic it is).

A sharp peak in the graph hints at rather static audio with low dynamic range, while a broad and flat shape means there is a lot of dynamic variation.

Intuitive Graphical Control

Remember threshold and ratio knobs? Having to use those when adjusting compressors or expanders was fun while it lasted. But we can do better!

Just specify where the relevant dynamic ranges are in the source audio (left markers), and where you want them to be in the result (right markers). Dynamic histograms guide you to quickly find the sweet spots.

When the target range is narrower than the corresponding source range, this part of the dynamic range will be compressed. If it is wider, it’s an expansion. Simple and seamless!

The Anatomy of Audio Dynamics

In Dynamic Grading, you work independently with the three fundamental dynamic regions.

The body range is where the “meat” of the signal is, such as vocal timbre or note sustains of instruments.

Right above, the punch range is home to transients, consonants, percussive elements and note onsets.

Finally, the floor contains elements like late decay of instrument notes, reverb, or background noise. Think of it as the “space between notes”.

Make Sound Decisions

Tightly control depth perception by adjusting the punch. Compress to get smoother onsets and a sense of distance, expand to increase impact and position a track front and center.

Compress the body to make the most prominent features sit firmly in the mix. Create more space by expanding the body when a track totally clogs your mix bus.

Adjust reverberation and background noise with the floor range. Expand to smoothly reduce reverb or noise and gently clean up a recording. Or squeeze it for weird and fascinating artistic effects.

Mixing The Dynamic Grading Way

Ready to fully embrace the Dynamic Grading Workflow? Drop it on every track and leave all faders at 0 dB.

That way you can basically paint your mix by placing individual tracks in the dynamic range, right where they belong.

We don’t say you should mix without even listening, but well, with Dynamic Grading you probably could…

Download / Trial

Download Dynamic Grading for your operating system below. The fully functioning trial license is free for 14 days.

An iLok account is required to activate the trial and/or full version.

Also make sure to download and check out our demo session for a hands-on practical example.

macOS

System Requirements

2GHz CPU, 4GB RAM
macOS 10.10 or later
Intel & Apple Silicon Native (incl. AAX)
AU, VST3 or AAX compatible host (64 Bit)

Windows

System Requirements

2GHz CPU, 4GB RAM
Windows 7 or later
VST3 or AAX compatible host (64 Bit)

Solid, well designed, looks great. Involves fairly extensive self assembly.

10/10

It does'nt get any better

Celemony Melodyne 5 Editor is absolutely wonderful. this software gives you the ability to manually move notes to the appropriate key, and it can correct the pitch and timing at the click of a mouse button-highly recommended-regards John

Very sturdy and useful

The cart is really sturdy and useful. It is also lighter than i thought.

Does the job well

I use this for my TV and also bluetooth streaming. It's connected to two powered speakers and a subwoofer. It was easy to install, has great customisation options via the app, and produces quality sound. It automatically changes source to the TV when it is turned on, via the HDMI ARC.

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