Doubler is just what it says: another early Airwindows pitch-shifter freebie. It’s more in the chorus vein than the harmonizer vein, but as it’s a freebie that can be forgiven. Happy doubling! This is an N to N plugin, meaning that it works in mono and runs dual-mono when put on a stereo track.
GolemDemo is a utility plugin for use with heavy guitar miking, when you have two mics on a stereo track but need to sum them to mono, balance them, and adjust relative phase. Includes a phase switch for tuning phase through cancellation. The name comes from the Sneap metal recording forum, where they call this type of miking “Clayman” miking after a notable album using it. It’s also called “Fredman” miking after a studio where they’re constantly using this miking- and also called ‘two mics on a guitar cab’ by people who think it is silly to give it a bunch of evocative names.
It’s a delay and a balance control for blending two tracks given as a stereo pair. Balance picks between the two sides and blends them accordingly, to mono. Offset delays either one or the other, an amount determined by the phase popup. The mic/guitar range is tighter, the bass/DI range is a bigger maximum delay. This becomes pretty much the same as moving the mic in and out, and lets you fiddle with the phase post-recording.
Anyway, the plugin’s named Golem, and Golem is $50.
Toybox is nothing more or less than a tiny manual FIR filter! If you’d like to tweak the individual poles of a mini impulse response, or average samples (note: a more recent freebie, Average, makes that easier) then Toybox is the toy for you. Because it’s a simple and tight little FIR implementation, you’ll get good tonal depth out of whatever you construct.
Toybox declares one sample of latency.
LeadVox is an ambitious combination of things that might be useful on a lead vocal, none of them particularly normal!
Overtones does a Chebyshev filter, enhancing harmonics on only the top end of the signal. Hypes up the overtones and brings them forward, like you’re belting harder.
Find Frequency and Find / Cancel are an ADT effect (not as slick as the current Airwindows ADT, but functional) on just the midrange of the signal. You can use it to shape the tonality of the voice, but it won’t be an obvious ADT (fixed flange) because it’s bandlimited. Bear in mind that extensive use of this will make the vocal more diffuse and less up-front. It’s meant as a subtle tone tweak.
Body Fullness puts a subtle overdrive onto the lows only. Not just a gain boost, doing this type of saturation (like in Density) brings the frequencies forward in space. If the chest and deepness of your voice is getting lost, add this until it comes forward, not so much that it’s exaggerated.
And Soften Brights is a Smooth stage only on the highs. It’ll tuck the edginess of esses and things in, without being too obvious about it. Treat it like it’s labeled, just add enough to make brightness texturally softer, don’t use it as an EQ for it really isn’t one.
This is meant as a ‘subtle touches’ channel strip on lead vocal tracks that are already pretty much there: don’t use it as a ‘broad EQ stroke’ tool, apart from Body Fullness and what Find Frequency does it doesn’t HAVE any EQ. That said, if you like the idea of exaggerating effects that aren’t simple EQ, knock yourself out :)
