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Inside Focusrite Control 2, which serves as the desktop software control center for the ISA C8X audio interface.
Four Jobs. Four Tools.
One Small Price.
Upper Management, Ground Control, Vinyl Flooring, and Cheap Haircut. Full versions. Perpetual licenses. Individually $36. All four for $19.
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None of these are trying to be a channel strip. Each one exists to do exactly one thing, correctly, and get out of the way - the same philosophy behind every utility in the catalog. Buy the four together and every narrow gap in a normal signal chain is covered: harsh highs, unruly sub-bass, historical record equalization, and peak control, all for less than the price of one.
Upper Management catches harsh highs before they earn a complaint. Ground Control watches the sub-bass and only steps in when it actually gets out of line. Vinyl Flooring carries five real record equalization curves - RIAA and the four that came before it. Cheap Haircut is a peak clipper built for real loudness gain without the squash a limiter gives you once you push it too far.
All Four Plugins
You receive the complete versions of all four plugins - every knob, every switch, every preset. Nothing trimmed down for the bundle.
Purchased separately, the four plugins total $36. Together, the whole collection is $19 - still real savings, permanently.
Upper Management
A high-frequency acceleration limiter that isolates harsh highs, cymbals, and sibilance, then reins them in with fast parallel correction instead of a static EQ cut. Stereo, Dual, and Mid-Side modes; Delta and Solo Band monitoring.
Ground Control
A dynamic subsonic limiter that only steps in when sub-bass energy actually gets out of line, plus an independent static HPF (5-60Hz, 6/12/24dB/oct) and DC removal for when you need the floor sealed for real.
Vinyl Flooring
Five record equalization curves in one utility - RIAA, Columbia LP, NAB, AES, and Decca/FFRR 1951. Encode and Decode are true mathematical inverses of the same curve network, and a live EQ Visualization panel shows real PRE/POST spectrum as your audio changes.
Cheap Haircut
A peak clipper for real loudness gain without the squash a limiter gives you once you push it too far - shaves only the samples that actually cross the ceiling, instantly. Hard or Soft clip character, real anti-aliasing Oversampling, and a live two-color clip scope.
One payment. No subscription. No annual renewal. All four are yours.
Run each plugin on up to three machines at once. Need to move an activation? Email us.
Activation is encrypted over HTTPS. There is no telemetry, and no personal data leaves your machine while the plugins are running.
You email us. We answer. No bot, no ticket maze, and no twelve-year-old forum post marked “solved.”
VST3 (64-bit) - Windows, macOS, Linux
AU (64-bit) - macOS only
Windows 10 / 11
macOS 11 Big Sur or later (Apple Silicon + Intel)
Linux - Ubuntu 22.04+ or equivalent
Any VST3-compatible host, including Reaper, Cubase, Studio One, Ableton Live, FL Studio, Bitwig Studio, Nuendo, and more.
AU on macOS: Logic Pro, GarageBand, and MainStage.
Upper Management, Ground Control, Vinyl Flooring, and Cheap Haircut. Four complete utility plugins. One license key activates all four.
Perpetual, single-user license
Three simultaneous activations per plugin
Need to move a license? Email us.
Tested on Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, Debian 12, Fedora 40. Requires one system library for license verification:
sudo apt install libsodium23 # Ubuntu / Debian sudo dnf install libsodium # Fedora / RHEL sudo pacman -S libsodium # Arch
VST3 only. Confirmed working in REAPER and Bitwig.
Upper Management, Ground Control, Vinyl Flooring, and Cheap Haircut. Full versions. Perpetual licenses. Individually $36. All four for $19.
By purchasing you agree to our EULA and Privacy Policy.
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