THE_STRIP 3
ONE LISTEN TO A WORKING CHAIN. ONE BUTTON TO A WORKING MIX.
The channel strip that mixes your whole session. Includes THE_STRIP 3 MINI.
EVERY TRACK KNOWS WHAT EVERY OTHER ONE IS DOING.
Why do I need THE_STRIP 3?
Because a mix isn't fifty plugin windows — it's three decisions. What is this track, how loud should it sit, and who wins when two sounds fight for the same space.
So I built a strip that takes everything between you and those decisions off your plate. It listens to the track and writes the whole chain. It gain-stages itself, so every threshold reads in real dB. And every instance in your session finds the others — the vocal's EQ can ask the guitars to step aside while it sings, and one button can balance the entire session. No routing, no sidechain cables.
You stay the one deciding what wins.
FIFTEEN PROCESSORS. ONE HONEST RACK.
Input staging, low-cut, gate, six-band dynamic EQ, compressor, de-esser, duck, transient designer, multiband compressor, stereo imager, reverb, delay, modulation, analog warmth and a brickwall limiter — one engine, reorderable by drag, each with a full-depth editor behind its card. Between every pair of modules: a live meter, the measured in-to-out change, and an output trim.
And the numbers tell the truth. The strip stages itself to a -12 dB reference, so the compressor's default readout is literally 'how many dB of gain reduction do you want'. Set -4, get 4 dB — at any ratio.
TELL IT WHAT IT'S HEARING. OR LET IT DECIDE.
Pick LEAD VOCAL — or leave it on AUTO — and hit LISTEN. SMART SETUP analyses the actual audio on your track and writes the whole chain: the low-cut, the de-esser, dynamic notches on the resonances it really found, compression tiered to the material, the output loudness-matched. 57 profiles from KICK DRUM to MASTER LOUD, plus profiles you create from your own reference audio.
Then it reports what it did — in plain language and real dB. Everything stays hand-editable, and one undo takes the whole setup back.
PRESS M. YOUR SESSION IS A MIXER.
Every THE_STRIP 3 and MINI in your session connects automatically. Flip to the MIX view and you're looking at faders, pans, meters, solo, groups and loudness for every track — from any window. It even works out which instances are your buses and your master, by listening.
The mesh is the sidechain now. A bass can pump under your session's actual kick, and a LISTEN can run on any track remotely — without opening a single extra window.
DECIDE WHO WINS.
Masking is the mix problem: two tracks fighting for the same frequencies at the same time. UNMASK turns it into one decision you can drag. Put the vocal on top, and everything below steps back for it — only where they collide, and only while the vocal plays.
Kick and bass never get carved against each other. That pocket belongs to the DUCK: the bass steps out of the kick's way rhythmically, below 150 Hz, while its top end stays put.
ONE BUTTON. A MIXED SESSION.
AUTO-MIX learns every strip that needs it, unmasks the tracks, arms the kick ducks and settles the levels — tracks first, then your buses, then the master — until the sum sits on target. It needs your song playing: it listens, it never guesses. And one undo takes back the entire run, on every instance.
It's not the finished record — it's the mixed starting point you'd otherwise spend a day building. You take it from there: drag the pecking order, ride the faders, promote whoever should win.
THE COMPANION YOU PUT ON EVERYTHING.
THE_STRIP 3 MINI is the same engine narrowed to the essentials — input, low-cut, the network's EQ, compressor and duck — with zero latency by construction and a fraction of the CPU. Put it on forty tracks so the full strip on your bus has something to mix.
It's a full citizen of the mesh: it gets mixed, carved, ducked, metered and learned remotely like any other channel. One license covers both plugins.
I'VE BEEN MIXING FOR TWO DECADES. THIS IS THE DESK I ALWAYS WANTED.
Every mixing setup I've ever worked on made me do the same three jobs by hand: figure out what each track needs, keep the gain staging honest, and manage who wins against whom — with fifty windows and a spider web of sidechain routing.
So I built the desk I always wanted. A strip that listens and writes the chain. A reference level it holds itself, so every threshold means what it says. And instances that talk to each other, so the mix decisions live in one place instead of fifty.
The technical work is handled. The taste is still yours.
- ONE LISTEN TO A WORKING CHAIN
- SMART SETUP analyses your actual audio and configures every stage — 57 profiles, plus profiles you create from your own reference tracks. One undo takes it all back.
- THRESHOLDS THAT TELL THE TRUTH
- The strip calibrates itself to a -12 dB reference. The compressor reads in dB of gain reduction: set -4, get 4 dB. It never changes your audio on its own.
- A MIXER FOR THE WHOLE SESSION
- Every instance finds the others. Faders, solo, groups, loudness and drill-in editing for every track — from any window, no routing.
- UNMASK, DUCK, AUTO-MIX
- Drag who wins and the losers step back only while the winner plays. Pump under your actual kick. Or press one button and start from a mixed session — one undo, mesh-wide.
- THE_STRIP 3 MINI INCLUDED
- The five-stage companion with zero latency by construction. One license covers both.
- HONEST A/B EVERYWHERE
- Bypass is level-matched by default, per-stage delta-solo plays exactly what each module contributes, and the loudness readouts are always post-everything.
- SAFE ON EVERYTHING
- VST3, AU and AAX on Mac (Apple Silicon native and Intel) and Windows. Tooltips in five languages. Every future update is free.
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WORKS WITH ALL MAJOR MUSIC SOFTWARE
MAC (Intel or M-Processors) | WINDOWS
VST3, AAX, AU
Frequently Asked Questions
THE_STRIP 3 works with any music software hosting VST3, AAX, or AU plugins—like Ableton Live, Pro Tools, FL Studio, Logic, GarageBand, Cubase, and Reaper. Both Windows and macOS (including M1 and higher) are supported.
THE_STRIP 2 was my channel strip with smart features. This one is a mix system. The strip calibrates itself so every threshold reads in real dB, SMART SETUP writes the chain from what it actually hears, and every instance in the session connects into one mixer — with UNMASK, kick-ducking and AUTO-MIX working across all of them. No routing anywhere.
No. Calibration is measure-and-hold: the strip only ever measures in short windows after you change something, then holds. Nothing moves unless you touched something — and anything it is about to rewrite shows a breathing ring first, so you always see it coming.
No. The instances find each other automatically — the mesh is the sidechain. The bass ducks under your session's actual kick, and UNMASK keys each carve from the winning track's real energy, live across plugin instances.
Then mix by hand — every module has a full-depth editor, the rack reorders by drag, and nothing requires the smart features. They write settings you can read, tweak or throw away. Undo covers everything, including a whole AUTO-MIX run.
It's the same engine narrowed to five stages — input, low-cut, the network's EQ, compressor and duck — with zero latency by construction, made to sit on the forty tracks that don't need the full rack. It's included: one license covers both plugins.
Only for what you actually engage — lookaheads, oversampling, true-peak limiting — and it reports exactly that to your DAW. THE_STRIP 3 MINI is zero-latency by construction: nothing in it can report a single sample of delay.
VST3, AU and AAX on Mac (Apple Silicon native and Intel) and Windows. And as always, every future update is free.
I'm super confident you'll love THE_STRIP 3, but if you discover it's not the perfect fit within 30 days of purchase, just reach out. I'll handle a smooth license transfer and give you a full refund—no hassle.
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