GBCAudio

I'm not a DSP engineer.

I have no training in signal processing, and I'm still an amateur when it comes to code. That's the first thing to say, because everything else here follows from it.

For years I wanted to build audio plugins. I had ideas — specific ones, accumulated over a long time spent working with sound — and no way to realise them. It stayed something I thought about rather than something I did.

Then AI tools got good enough that I was using them daily, and one day a question occurred to me: could I describe a plugin in plain language and actually get one? I spent the months after that moving between an AI assistant, a keyboard, and a DAW. Describe, build, listen, find it wrong, go back. V-Drive came out of that. So did everything else here.

Taro Takaki, founder of GBCAudio, at his desk with a laptop showing a waveform, a mixer, an audio interface and shelves of records. — Taro Takaki, founder

I'm still an amateur at code. What I have instead is my ears, years of working with audio, and one rule I don't break: I don't ship a claim I can't check.

So Spectra's loudness engine isn't "trust me, it's accurate." It is verified against the official EBU Tech 3341/3342 conformance test vectors and cross-checked sample-for-sample against libebur128 — 155 comparisons, zero failures — with a ±0.1 LU accuracy bar enforced by the test suite on every build.

Not being an expert is exactly why I measure. An expert can trust their instincts. I can't, so I check.

There is a great deal of very good software in this field, made by people who know far more than I do. Having now tried to make some myself, I have more respect for them than I did before, not less.

Every plugin here has a 14-day trial, no card required — I'd rather you find out for yourself than take my word for it. And if something breaks, or behaves in a way that doesn't make sense, please tell me.

— Taro Takaki, GBCAudio