MixLess
Set your levels, control your dynamics and compare what each change does. Four free mixing tools, plus Less Tube, a saturation plugin with four characters, now in field testing.
AU and VST3 on macOS with Apple silicon. VST3 on Windows.
Less Tube
Triode leads with the second harmonic and thickens before it distorts. Pentode is symmetric, so the odd harmonics carry the edge. Vari-Mu gives way as the signal pushes. Iron is the output transformer on its own, weight in the lows.
On the deck
The transfer curve is the live input to output shape, and the bars measure harmonics 2 through 8 against the fundamental. Both screens on the model are live: they follow the drive you set.
Listen and compare
EXPLORE THE BROWSER MODEL
Turn Drive and watch the model respond. This is an interactive browser demonstration; the display illustrates the model, not a live analysis of the loop. Listen to the recordings below to hear Less Tube itself.
TRANSFER
Input on the horizontal, output on the vertical. The dotted diagonal is the untouched signal.
HARMONICS
Read from the current curve with a 1 kHz sine at minus 6 dBFS.
RECORDED WITH LESS TUBE
WHAT YOU ARE HEARING
Listen to the same loop dry and through each of the four models. These recordings were made with Less Tube VST3, build 0.3.0.
Switching keeps the playhead, so you compare the character rather than the edit point.
Less Tube
Choose a model and the valve in the socket changes. Drag the unit to see it from any side; the bars show the harmonic fingerprint of the character you picked.
Download
Four of the plugins are free and stay free; Less Tube is paid. Download counts are public. macOS installers are notarised packages, Windows installers are signed.
Gain, polarity and stereo trim with a measured readout for setting levels.
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Loudness, true peak, correlation and spectrum, with streaming and broadcast targets plus MixLess club and festival presets.
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A clean compressor with the transfer curve and gain reduction on one screen.
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A brickwall limiter with a true peak ceiling, measured between samples.
Product pageDownloadDownloads are not open yet. You can explore the plugins, read the manuals and listen to the examples.
Engineering
We know what you're hearing, and how little of it you need.
We develop and validate our plugins with care to keep our quality standards high. That care is what gives us confidence in what we make, and it is the same work on the free tools as on the paid ones.
Latency figures are exact sample counts reported to the host. Alias suppression, filter flatness and ceiling behaviour are measured on the build we test, and the specifications on each product page quote those measurements.
Less Tube and Less Comp include Delta, so you can listen to the difference the processing makes on its own. Use it next to bypass, then decide in the context of your mix.
LESS TUBE, MEASURED ON THE BUILD WE TEST
Production
| 0.3.0 | 2026-08-01 | New products, Less Meter, Bundle |
| 0.2.0 | 2026-07-29 | maintenance |
| 0.1.1 | 2026-07-29 | Rebrand: Mixing Gadget to MixLess |