BIG MAX ZERO
The Ultra Low-Latency Brickwall Limiter
Loud, clean and fast enough to track through. BIG MAX ZERO holds the ceiling with as little as half a millisecond of delay, so it belongs on your master, your mix bus and your live input. Version 1.3 is a ground-up rework of the engine that gets louder and stays cleaner at the settings you already use. Pay what you want, including nothing at all.
Pay what you want · Including $0 · Every format and platform
Built for the moments latency matters
Everything you need from a brickwall limiter, and nothing slowing you down.
Track Through It
Half a millisecond of lookahead is low enough to record, stream and monitor through without feeling it. When you are mixing or mastering and want more room, step up to 1 or 2 ms.
Four Modes, Four Jobs
LOUD when you want impact, CLEAN when you want it to disappear, SMOOTH when the mix needs glue, and SAFE when all you need is the peaks held down.
Loud Without the Crunch
Drive it hard and BIG MAX ZERO keeps its composure. You get the level you are after without the grit and pumping that usually come with it.
Hear What It Takes
Delta plays back exactly what the limiter is removing, so you can push right up to the point where it starts to cost you and stop there.
Judge It Fairly
Gain Match takes your input drive back off the output, so you are hearing the limiting and not just the extra volume. Louder always sounds better, until you level match it.
Catches the Overs Others Miss
2x and 4x peak detection finds the inter-sample peaks that trip up streaming encoders, with no extra latency to pay for it.
What's new in 1.3
The biggest update BIG MAX ZERO has had.
Louder
LOUD, CLEAN and SMOOTH now get noticeably more level out of the same settings, with the ceiling still locked down.
Cleaner When You Push It
The new engine holds together at heavy gain reduction, so the last few dB of loudness cost a lot less.
Gain Match That Stays Put
Gain Match now keeps working with the window closed and stays out of your automation lanes.
Smoother and More Stable
A steadier interface on Mac and Windows, metering that reads the same as the standard loudness meters, and a long list of fixes across the plugin.
Windows, macOS and Linux. VST3, AU, AAX and CLAP.
Every format and platform in one download.
Native Linux builds
VST3 and CLAP compiled for Linux. Reaper, Bitwig, Ardour.
CLAP on all three platforms
CLAP for Windows, macOS and Linux.
AAX for Pro Tools
AAX for Pro Tools on Windows and macOS.
Apple Silicon and Intel
Universal binary for macOS 12 and later. VST3, AU, AAX and CLAP in one installer.
Specifications
Formats, platforms and controls
- Plugin formats
- VST3, AU, AAX, CLAP
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS 12+ (Intel and Apple Silicon), Linux
- Lookahead
- 0.5, 1 or 2 ms, reported and host-compensated. 1x, 2x or 4x peak detection
- Modes
- LOUD, CLEAN, SMOOTH, SAFE
- Controls
- Input 0 to +24 dB, Attack, Release 1 ms to 1 s with Auto, Release Curve, Stereo Link, Output -24 to 0 dB
- Monitoring
- Delta, Gain Match, latency-compensated bypass
- Metering
- Scrolling gain reduction, LUFS and RMS
- Price
- Pay what you want, including $0. Every format and platform included
Frequently asked questions
Price, latency and upgrading
Is it really free?
Yes. Enter $0 and the download links come straight to your inbox. If BIG MAX ZERO earns a place on your sessions, you can pay whatever you think it is worth.
How low is the latency?
As low as half a millisecond. Choose 0.5, 1 or 2 ms of lookahead, and the plugin reports it to your DAW so everything stays lined up.
Will 1.3 change my old sessions?
Your settings load exactly as you left them. LOUD, CLEAN and SMOOTH are louder in 1.3, so those sessions will sound a little hotter than before. Sessions saved with Gain Match on are converted automatically.
What do I need to run it?
Windows, macOS 12 or later on Intel or Apple Silicon, or Linux, and any DAW that loads VST3, AU, AAX or CLAP.
Get BIG MAX ZERO
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AAX, VST3 and CLAP on Windows · AAX, AU, VST3 and CLAP on macOS 12 or later · VST3 and CLAP on Linux