JST Bus Glue Drums

Full Description

What is Bus Glue?

Bus Glue is a series of compressor plug-ins designed at controlling the dynamics of specific instruments and groups in a mix. Comprised of six plug-ins, each has been specially designed with unique compression and saturation types to get the best performance from your mix busses. Made with the goal of creating a concise set of six compressors which could replace all other bus compressors in your arsenal, offering something that traditional compressors weren't designed to do.

Traditional compressors are designed to be universally compatible with a vast range of incoming audio, often meaning you need to stack compressors together to get a desired effect. With Bus Glue, the compressors are as tailored as possible allowing you to get the right sound for each bus faster and more accurately than ever before.

Compressing your workflow

It happens to every producer or mix engineer. You get a new session and start the mixing procedure and are faced with the question over what compressor to use for what instruments. Making the wrong decision could lead to dynamic imbalances that spoil a mix when it comes to final mixdown. With the Bus Glue series, you will know exactly which compressor to look for when it comes time to create a "glued" sound on your mix bus. This can save you time instead of stacking non-specific compressors together or auditioning every plug-in in your arsenal to find the right tone, letting you get on with the more creative aspects of the production process.

Built for practicality

Aimed at solving problems, the Bus Glue series take a practical approach to its function. Where other compressors are generic and are designed to respond to many different instruments in a mix, they become inefficient when it comes to instrument busses. As each plug-in in the Bus Glue series has been engineered for a specific function, they are tuned to get the best from your instrument groups in just a few streamlined controls.

Rather than providing an array of parameters, giving you 'analysis paralysis', each plug-in has been simplified to give you only the essential parameters and controls. This streamlines your ability to add the important glue to an instrument bus through thoughtful DSP architecture behind a simple-to-use interface. Each knob does exactly what you need it to.

More than compression

Encompassing everything you would typically need when processing an instrument or mix bus, each plug-in in the Bus Glue series features built-in sonic enhancing processors, designed to complement the specific compression design. Everything from harmonic saturation, frequency balancing, transient enhancement, tonal shifting and more.

Control you need

With the Bus Glue series, you won't find a cookie cutter, copy-and-paste range of parameters and controls. Each plug-in features three main controls; compression, output and mix. From here, each plug-in has individual parameters and controls that are tuned to each instrument bus to change the way your compressor reacts to your bus.

Tested on top albums

Road tested on a range of chart-topping albums across multiple genres, the Bus Glue series has been refined to ensure the designs hold up to the most demanding of situations; real-world mixing sessions which will be heard by millions of listeners!

Gain matched

A common issue with compression plug-ins is that the more compression is applied, the louder the signal will become. This means that you do not hear the tonal or character changes that a compressor will imprint on your track without gain matching the input and output. Every JST Bus Glue compressor has been gain matched for both input and output, allowing you to hear the exact difference the compressor is having on your track without volume tricking your ear.

Features

• Specifically-designed bus compressor designed to tame dynamics of a drum bus
• Unique compression architecture has been tailored for optimum response to drum mixes
• Includes four unique 'Punch' modes' including Tight, Open, Fat and Boom
• Eliminates the need to audition or test multiple traditional compressors on your drums, saving vital time in the studio
• Employs only the essential parameters and controls, avoiding 'analysis paralysis'
• Streamlined and simple-to-use interface where each knob does exactly what you expect it to
• Road tested on a range of chart-topping albums across multiple genres
• Gain matched input and output stages lets you hear the exact difference your compression is making to your tone

Specifications

• Operating system:
  • Mac: OS X 10.6.8+
  • Windows: Windows 7+
• Format:
  • Mac: VST2, VST3, AU, AAX, RTAS, 64-bit
  • Windows: VST2, VST3, AAX, RTAS, 64-bit
• Product code: 1188-54