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The Dorrough Surround Black Friday deal puts 79% off this Waves metering plugin, bringing it to $29.99 until Nov 26, 2026.
It's a set of surround level meters built for 5.0 and 5.1 mixes, and it also includes all the Dorrough Stereo meters.
Waves says it worked closely with Dorrough Electronics to model the physics of hardware meters, so the display reflects the levels you actually hear.
Surround gives you more room to work, and more room for things to go wrong. Peaks can distort, average levels can drift out of relationship with those peaks, and individual channels can end up mixed differently from what you intended.
This plugin is there to catch that.
Each meter shows average and peak level together in one display. It reacts instantly to peaks while averaging the overall level.
The maker's feature list covers the following:
The "Overs" LED stays lit once more than 3 samples exceed 0 dBFS. That gives you a clear flag when a bus or the master has gone over.
The standards modes are there to make it easier to stay within film and television delivery specs.
Controls for meter Order, Sum & Diff/Phase, and Collapse let you rearrange and fold the display. You can lay the channels out the way your monitoring chain is set up.
On Mac, Dorrough Surround runs on macOS Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14, and Sequoia 15, in VST, AU, and AAX formats.
On PC, it needs Windows 10 or later, in VST and AAX formats.
If you mix in surround for picture, the Dorrough Surround plugin gives you average and peak readings, plus channel relationships, in a single window.
Yes. The Dorrough Surround Black Friday deal takes 79% off, bringing the Waves plugin to $29.99. The offer ends Nov 26, 2026. It covers the surround meters along with the Dorrough Stereo meters that come in the same plugin.
Dorrough Surround includes 5.0 and 5.1 meters plus all Dorrough Stereo meters. Each shows average and peak levels in a single display. It also has DTS, ITU/SMPTE, and Film/Dolby Digital modes, three meter sizes, and several layout and display options.
On Mac it comes as VST, AU, and AAX, and supports macOS Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14, and Sequoia 15. On Windows 10 or later it comes as VST and AAX. The same plugin covers both surround and stereo metering.
The meter responds instantly to peaks while averaging overall levels. Peaks can be held for 3 seconds, held indefinitely, or reset. The Overs LED stays on once more than 3 samples exceed 0 dBFS, so clipping is flagged in the meter.
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