ANVIL

One tool that sees your whole session.

Multiple instances across your mix talk to each other. They surface collisions, masking, and the moves that buy space — across the whole session, not just between two tracks. Built by a working engineer who got tired of holding the entire spectrum in his head.

In private alpha with studio engineers

Cross-track coordination.

Every ANVIL instance in your session knows what the others are doing. When you carve space on the vocal, ANVIL shows you what that move costs on the guitars and what it buys on the bass. The whole mix, in one view, across every track.

Where does this track actually sit?

The Stage Pocket meter answers a question no other plugin can. Assign a role — Bed, Support, Present, or Exposed — and see exactly where the track lives in the mix. Target range, measured range, current position, outlier ticks. Mix-relative metering that shows you the truth.

Preview before you commit.

Ghost handles appear as translucent positions on the actual control. Hear the move before you accept it. Adjust, reject, or commit — nothing touches your audio without your hand on it. The engineer decides. Always.

Doesn't cry wolf.

Conservative dual-threshold detection. Label-level for reference, flag-level for real attention. When in doubt, it stays quiet. Your ears catch what a cautious detector misses — that's by design. A false positive wastes more attention than a missed one.

Your tools still work here.

A 72-concept canonical vocabulary maps any vendor's plugin parameters into ANVIL's engine. Your FabFilter, your Waves, your SSL emulation — ANVIL speaks the same language. Keep your chain. Get mix-aware coordination across all of it.

Specifications

Format VST3 (AU planned)
DSP Deterministic — auditable, reproducible, frame-accurate
License Commercial perpetual ($299–399)
Modes Hammer · Vocal · Master
Engine 38-band perceptual spectral analysis (20 Hz–20 kHz)
Compressors 4 families — Strike, Hearth, Quench, Crucible

Today it sees your whole session. The architecture is built to see your whole catalog — every mix, every decision, always available for reference. Built by an engineer who got tired of tools that forget.

For working mix and mastering engineers — studio professionals, label staff, and serious project-studio practitioners who want a tool that shows its work and stays out of the way.