Manual

Tyson Group

The bus-plugin coordinator for a stack of Tyson de-essers. Put it on the vocal aux, give it and every stacked Tyson the same GROUP name, and it budgets de-essing across the stack so a doubled/tripled BV group isn’t de-essed track-by-track into a lifeless, lispy composite.

CODE LTyGFORMAT AU · VST3 · StandaloneCATEGORY Vocal-stack CoordinatorBUNDLE com.inotrak.tyson-group

The interface - every control mapped

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1GROUP - Name the stack; each Tyson selects it from its dropdown.

2ANALYSE - Timed pass → bespoke per-member band centres.

3Low Freq - Master low-band centre (AUTO = per member).

4Low Reduce - Composite low-band reduction budget.

5Air Freq - Master air-band centre (AUTO = per member).

6Air Reduce - Composite air-band reduction budget.

7Balance - The sibilance-levelling budget on/off.

8Stagger - Spread member detector centres to stop combing.

9Composite sibilance - Summed HF profile — flattens as the budget levels.

10Member overview - One row per Tyson (SOLO + budget pull-back).

Quick start

Insert Tyson Group on the vocal aux/bus; type a GROUP name in its field.
On each stacked Tyson, pick that group from its GROUP dropdown (coordinator names, satellites select).
Set the composite LOW / AIR REDUCE targets and (optionally) master FREQ (0 = AUTO per member).
Run ANALYSE to give each member bespoke band centres, then watch the composite meter flatten.

Grouping & budget

GROUP

Name the stack here. Each stacked Tyson then selects this group from its dropdown — no free-typing on members. Load-order-independent (a Tyson can join before the coordinator exists).

LOW / AIR REDUCE

The composite reduction target per band — the budget R. The levelled target is T = maxSibilance − R; each member gives clamp(sibilance_i − T, 0, ceiling). Louder members give way more; members at/below T keep their ess.

LOW / AIR FREQ

Master band centre. 0 = AUTO (each member keeps its own ANALYSE-detected centre); above 0, pins every member to this centre.

BALANCE / STAGGER

BALANCE = the sibilance-levelling budget on/off (amount). STAGGER = spread members’ detector centres apart by slot (~±6%) to stop stacked sibilance fluttering/combing. Independent — both-on is normal.

Analysis & monitoring

ANALYSE

Main-Analyser-style timed measurement: a confirm dialog, then a 10-second measuring window during which every member peak-holds its HF sibilance profile. On finish the registry picks each member’s bespoke band centres and bumps analyseGen, so each Tyson applies the new freq/Q/threshold/range once (the continuous budget keeps riding).

Member overview

One row per Tyson: name, per-band sibilance + how far the budget is pulling it back, and a SOLO box (audition that member; ending a solo engages the group DIM, shown as an UNDIM button).

Composite sibilance meter

The summed HF profiles of all members. As the budget levels the stack, the hump over the sibilant region flattens — the visual proof the coordinator is working.

Audio passes through unchanged — the coordinator only applies the group DIM and hands each Tyson a budgetScale (never a parameter write, so live levelling can’t fight a hand tweak). It does not touch LevelsBrain; it runs on a separate self-contained registry. In-process only, same limit as the brain.