M Media Audio has released Volume Dealer, a true-peak mastering limiter built around a full BS.1770 LUFS metering suite and a one-click loudness targeting workflow. Engineers set a Target LUFS, play the track until Integrated LUFS stabilizes, and click Set Level – the plugin calculates the exact corrective gain and applies it in a single step, no manual gain-staging or repeated bounce-and-check cycles required.
The limiter runs a lookahead brickwall design with an adjustable knee via Edge Rounding, from a hard 0% ceiling to a 6 dB pre-transition softened curve for dense program material. A High Quality mode runs the limiter at 2x the session sample rate through an IIR half-band polyphase filter, catching inter-sample peaks that exceed 0 dBFS on playback reconstruction – the difference between a true-peak ceiling and a limiter that only checks the samples it can see.
M Media Audio has been in professional audio since 1994. Based in Austin, Texas, the studio has mixed and mastered thousands of broadcasts and records across three decades – working with national acts, local artists, and independent labels. Volume Dealer comes directly out of that mastering chain, built to remove the guesswork from hitting a loudness target without sacrificing peak control.
The plugin reports BS.1770-3 and BS.1770-4 metering side by side with Integrated, Momentary, and Short-Term LUFS readouts, toggleable without interrupting an in-progress measurement. Dual analog-style VU meters with 300 ms ballistic response track post-limiter output, and a Gain Applied readout confirms exactly what Set Level calculated. Dithering is available at export in 24-bit or 16-bit noise-shaped modes.
Features
- One-click Set Level workflow – measures Integrated LUFS and applies corrective gain in a single step.
- Full BS.1770-3 / BS.1770-4 LUFS metering suite – Integrated, Momentary, Short-Term.
- True-peak lookahead brickwall limiter with adjustable Edge Rounding knee (0-100%).
- High Quality mode – 2x oversampled true-peak detection via IIR half-band polyphase filter.
- Pre-limiter Input Trim, -12 to +12 dB.
- Dual analog-style VU meters, 300 ms ballistics, post-limiter output.
- Noise-shaped dither – off, 24-bit, or 16-bit.
- Gain Applied, Gain Reduction, Output Peak, and Latency readouts.
Availability and Pricing
Volume Dealer is free with no purchase, no license key, no account, and no expiration. Download is available at mmediaaudio.com
System Requirements
- Windows 10/11: VST3 64-bit.
- MacOS 11 Big Sur or later: VST3 + AU 64-bit, Universal Binary (Apple Silicon + Intel).
- Linux: VST3 64-bit.
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