McDSP - SA-2 Dialog Processor v7 (Native)
Dialog. The focal point of any movie, television show, documentary, or for that matter, any creative media production involving the spoken word.
Add to the mix a sweeping musical score, dozens of foley effects, and plenty more - and it becomes clear the job of dialog mixing is a tall order.
After all, if you can't hear what the actors are saying, why watch it at all!
The SA-2 Dialog Processor is based on hardware originally conceived by Academy Award winning re-recording mixer Mike Minkler and used on over 100 major motion pictures.
The SA-2 is designed to improve the overall sound of recorded speech, but the SA-2 is not just for dialog.
It's equally useful for vocals, and is a great tool for adjusting the timbre of any track, a reliable de-esser, and a fine multi-frequency compressor, in our completely biased opinion.
Shift
Adjust all five SA-2 band frequencies up or down as much as one octave from the original Emmy Award winning settings.
Range
Adjust the amount of overall processing from the SA-2 without having to adjust band thresholds individually.
Range can be used to increase SA-2 attenuation by up to 50% more than the original design.
Monitor
The signals being removed by the SA-2 processing can be auditioned by enabling the Monitor button just beneath the Output gain control.
Features
- Five independent bands of strategic active equalization
- Multiple process modes for a variety of applications
- Unique signal reduction metering
- Double precision processing
- Zero latency
- Collection of presets from award winning mix engineers
- Mono and stereo versions
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System Requirements
**Note - As of v7.0, VST is no longer supported. VST versions of v6 McDSP plug-ins will no longer be updated, and will be uninstalled.
- OS Requirements - Mac: macOS 10.13 or later
- OS Requirements - PC: Windows 10 or later
- Bit Depth: 32-bit, 64-bit
- Format: AAX Native, AU, VST3
- Authorization Type: iLok 2/3 or iLok Cloud (continuous internet connection)
- Hardware Requirements - Mac: Intel Core 2 Duo or higher, 4GB RAM minimum
- Hardware Requirements - PC: Intel Core 2 Duo / AMD Athlon 64 X2 or higher, 4GB RAM minimum