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Baracca Records releases Faderhand, an automatic vocal gain rider for Mac, at 9 EUR

Prague, 16 September 2026. Baracca Records has released Faderhand 1.0, a plugin that rides the level of a vocal phrase by phrase before it reaches the compressor. Faderhand runs on macOS as VST3, Audio Unit, AAX for Pro Tools (since version 1.1) and a standalone app, and on Windows as VST3 and a standalone app (since 22 September 2026). It costs 9 EUR with a perpetual licence for up to three computers.

Evening out a vocal is slow work. Riding the fader takes a pass through every song, drawing automation syllable by syllable takes longer, and handing the job to a compressor flattens the loud lines to lift the quiet ones. Faderhand does the riding instead: slow, musical moves toward a target level, with 100 ms of lookahead so the gain is already moving when a louder or quieter phrase arrives.

Learn Target takes the guesswork out of the setup. Play the vocal, and after six seconds of singing Faderhand sets the target to the level the vocal already has, so the take becomes more even rather than simply louder. Peak safety is built in: the rider never boosts a phrase past a ceiling, and a 2 ms lookahead limiter holds that ceiling.

“I wanted the vocal as even as it gets when I ride the fader myself, without the late jumps you hear when an automatic rider reacts after the phrase has started. So Faderhand looks ahead and gets there first.”

Key features

• Learn Target: sets the target from six seconds of the vocal itself, so the take gets more even, not louder
• Rides up to 6 dB each way by default (up to 12 dB), pulling loud lines down twice as fast as it lifts quiet ones
• 100 ms lookahead by default, constant latency reported to the host (102 ms including the limiter)
• Ride and Read modes: every move goes to one Ride parameter to record as automation, edit by hand and play back
• Optional stereo sidechain for the music bus, so the target follows the arrangement
• Peak safety: boosts never push peaks past the ceiling (−1 dBFS by default), and a 2 ms lookahead limiter holds it
• Two optional colour stages after the rider: Bloom (a clean second harmonic) and Grid (a presence lift at 2 and 3 kHz)
• 12 factory presets, including Pop Lead, Ballad, Rap & Spoken, Podcast & Voice-over and Live Vocal (8 ms lookahead for monitoring)
• Simple and Advanced views, hover help on every control, manual in English, Czech and Spanish
• Standalone app: open a recording, set Faderhand up by ear, export a file in the original's format, sample-aligned

Pricing and availability

Faderhand is available now from www.faderhand.com for 9 EUR including VAT. The licence is perpetual and covers up to three computers, Mac or Windows, with no iLok and no account: activate once online, then work offline. All 1.x updates are free. There is no trial; instead, buyers get a full refund on request within 14 days, and a before-and-after audio example and the complete manual are on the website.

System requirements

Mac: macOS 11.0 or newer, Apple Silicon and Intel, with a host that loads VST3, Audio Unit or AAX plugins (Pro Tools), or the included standalone app.

Windows: Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit, with a host that loads VST3 plugins, or the included standalone app. The Windows installer is not code-signed yet.

About Baracca Records

Baracca Records is the Prague label of Tomáš Jochmann, jazz pianist, producer and developer. Faderhand is its first audio plugin.