Less Gain Stage · free

Gain staging as arithmetic

Type the level you want. Less Gain Stage measures what you have and shows the difference, so setting gain becomes a subtraction instead of a guess.

Less Gain Stage interface

Gain and polarity

The two moves every channel needs, without loading a console emulation to get them.

Distance to target

The meter answers the actual question: how far from where you want to be, in dB.

Specifications
FormatsAU, VST3
Latency0 samples
Default statenumerically transparent, tested at 1e-7
Measured behaviour

Default-state transparency is asserted by test on every build: unity gain is not a promise, it is an equality check.