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Important: For hygiene and software licensing reasons, some items are only eligible for our Money Back Guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging with all software still "unregistered." Details of exclusions are shown within the product descriptions. Products include:
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This table provides an overview of your statutory consumer rights, compared with our standard returns policy and optional extended money back guarantee and warranty.
| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 30 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
We are unable to accept returns of any custom made items designed to work together as a unique package and some items are only eligible for money back guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging. For full information on our returns policy, please refer to our returns and refunds information guide.
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Key Features
The Sonnox Oxford Inflator (Native) is a mastering and stereo output processor that adds weight, volume and tonal shaping to your project. Helping to breathe new life into your sound, Inflator uses a statistics-based algorithm to manipulate the level of different aspects within your track to create consistent levels within your mix. A unique approach to signal and dynamics processing, Inflator can achieve extremely high values of volumes without introducing any of the typical pitfalls of dynamics processors. Avoiding any unwanted pumping, distortion or artefacts making it the choice of professionals for stereo output processing and even mastering applications.
Presented in a simple interface with intuitive controls, Inflator gets you creating louder, more powerful and more commercially competitive mixes and masters instantly. Retaining the core sound of your tracks, Inflator adds subtle tonal shaping to provide the ultimate weight and glue to your tracks and can even be driven into overdrive for more harmonic content. The unique design doesn't limit it to stereo processing, but can be implemented across your entire mix from vocals, bass guitar, drum shells and more to create tighter and more powerful tracks that rival industry-leading engineers.
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Studio aficionados will be very familiar with the typical processors used to level an audio signal to achieve a consistent level. Namely, compressors and limiters are the most common you'll find in any studio of any level across the world. Inflator doesn't conform to the typical parameters of these processors and uses a completely different approach to achieve a consistent level and larger than life tone.
Processing functions by changing the relative probability of the samples in the programmer to create a larger likelihood of larger values than in the original signal, is exactly how Inflator is described in the user manual. Whilst a complicated explanation, it describes a unique process that doesn't follow conventional signal thresholds and gain reduction meters. With this in mind, Inflator doesn't fall down the same pitfalls as compressors and limiters as it doesn't introduce pumping, artefacts or transient degradation. It can however be driven into overdrive when pushed hard, much like a tube circuit can to increase perceived loudness.
As described, Inflator follows an entirely different principle when processing audio to conventional levelling tools and as such, creates a different response that is ideal for delicate applications such as stereo 2-bus processing or mastering.
Comprised of only a simple few controls Inflator presents an exciting opportunity to add punch, weight and glue to your tracks without any of the unwanted consequences of compression, limiting or clipping. The Effect Level control can be thought of as a blend dial whereby you should aim to have this as close to peaking as possible whilst avoiding distortion. Additional loudness can be achieved by switching the Clip 0dBr feature to eat into the soft headroom that's integrated within the plug-in. The next parameter you'll find is the Curve control, which affects the perceived loudness and tonal nature of the signal. At its lowest, the loudness effect is negligible with only small amounts of tonal enhancement, maintaining the core tone with a small amount of added warmth. Turning up this dial is where the Inflator comes alive. Pushing your sound upfront, adding warmth and harmonic content with an increased perception of detail and creating loudness whilst maintaining the core tone and transient response of your instrument, the Inflator has been named appropriately.
Highly musical, the Inflator will perform best when operating on large subgroups, mixes or full mastering projects to achieve the level of commercial mixes and compete with their loudness and consistency, however that's not the only usage. Ideal for anything from double-tracked vocals to electric bass to create a flattering tonal change whilst maintaining the consistent level required for those instruments to be heard above a dense mix.
"The more you use it, the more reluctant you'll be to work without it!" - SoundonSound
"Mastering houses should be foaming at the mouth to get this baby" - Audio Media
"Even novices will be adding punch and clarity to tracks" - Recording magazine
