Elsewhere, you have input and output meters and dials, new low and high shelving EQs to shape the overall sound, buttons for selecting soft/hard knee and RMS/Peak operation, plus a button to switch on a new hard clipping function. The volumes of each band can be adjusted by dragging the large volume and gain reduction/boost meters in the centre, and a Timings dial gives quick, global control over the attack and release times. There’s no wet/dry knob for parallel processing, but this is because the phase shifts caused by the multiband operation would wreak havoc if used alongside the original signal. You also get separate amount dials for the low, mid and high bands, so you can ease back if a certain area is sounding too heavily processed. One of the most important dials here is the Amount control, which scales the overall effect by adjusting the input volumes and ratios of each band. Upon loading, you’ll see the Easy page, as opposed to the Advanced page that opens things up for finer tweaking. MO-TT boasts a clean looking, resizable GUI primed for achieving quick results. It may seem fairly pricey, especially if you already use Live’s or Xfer’s OTT, but the extra features make it much more flexible and easy to use. Slate Digital has updated this ubiquitous effect with some extra bells and whistles as MO-TT. It was so popular that Xfer Records created a free plug-in that allowed users outside of Live to get in on the action. OTT has been championed by artists in the electronic music world for its sound design potential and the ability to create in your face sounds in an instant, and also used as a more subtle tool for glueing busses and mixes together.

READ MORE: Mixland Tilt! review: Fuss-free EQ with tons of character.This extreme, “over the top” effect combines heavy-handed downwards and upwards compression across three bands, creating a squashed and intense version of whatever you throw at it. It’s unusual for a stock preset to spawn a whole new sound and principle of processing, but that’s the case with the OTT preset for Ableton Live’s Multiband Dynamics effect.

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