DeHiss has just one control, Threshold. Sounds below this threshold will be de-hissed. It’s not like a simple EQ: the algorithm’s doing freaky things relating to the mean level of samples, but for all practical purposes it acts like a gate that can clamp down brutally on high-frequency noise. The plugin was designed to cope with […]
Chrome Oxide was an alternate technique to go for ‘tape grunge’, originally sold as a separate plugin. It worked like this: it threw in a random noise, but instead of just overlaying the noise onto the sound, it used the noise to interpolate between the current and previous sample. What that did was noise up the […]
Shelves is another strange little Airwindows EQ. This one’s a simple two-band shelf… that’s all Airwindows-ized in subtle ways. The crossover’s altered in the way that Highpass and Lowpass are. As near as I can work out, what’s happening is that if you boost Treble, it gets harder. If you cut it, it gets softer. If […]
Tremolo is from way back. It works in a rather special way. Rather than simply modulate loudness, Tremolo modulates spatial depth. That’s done through exploiting the qualities the ‘Density’ algorithm has for pushing stuff back in space (and making it thin and wiry) or bringing it forward (and making it fat and distorted). Tremolo puts that […]
