The Dugan Automixer native version from Waves is a plug-in for use within the company's MultiRack Native host software and was developed with audio inventor Dan Dugan to automatically control the gains of multiple microphones in real time. Available for virtually any console, the plug-in is a great solution for broadcast news panels, talk shows, houses of worship, film and television dialog recording, and any other discussion panel or conference scenario that involve multiple microphones.
The software maintains a consistent system gain, even when multiple speakers are talking simultaneously, and makes perfectly matched crossfades, without any signal compression and without a noise gate that may cause unwanted artifacts. This allows for dramatically reduced feedback, ambient noise, and comb filtering from adjacent microphones, with the mixer turning up microphones when someone is talking, and turning them down when not being used.