Dabbling in mastering my own project - in love with a new VST plugin!

[ksound]

In my opinion the compressor section is very transparent, but the level section, not so. I quite like what it does when used sparingly but I don't think it handles low-end all that well. I find it's too easy to get crackles and distortions especially on music with a fair amount of sustained low frequencies.

I'm convinced that the older version (1.1 I think) was cleaner sounding than the current version (I use RTAS version). However I've recently started using for a small to moderate gain increase before final limiting/clipping processing and I find it to work much better this way.

With a lower signal going into the FG-X there is much more headroom to turn up the dynamic perception control, keep the ITP on smooth and using it as more of a tonal enhancement/booster rather than a final loudness maximizer.

Interesting plugin, but it doesn't suit all material.