TL;DW: ResEQ is a bank of mostly midrange resonances. ResEQ.zip(378k) Sometimes I’m just contrarian, and sometimes it’s for a reason. I keep getting asked to make a ‘Soothe’ plugin. I get that: it’s hyped, it lets you make stuff louder, my plugins are free and open source, why not etc etc. I understand why I’m […]
TL;DW: Smooth can tame pointy sounds or make drums explode. Smooth.zip(357k) This should be fun :) Here’s one of the classic Airwindows secret weapons, up to date and VST and free (yes, Patreon blah blah, you know the drill). It can be subtle or incredibly aggressive, and it’s named Smooth. You can use it on […]
TL;DW: BlockParty is like a moderately saturated analog limiter. BlockParty.zip(359k) What do you get when you cross an Airwindows compressor, with OneCornerClip? Pretty much this. Okay, so it wasn’t a very difficult riddle, was it? BlockParty acts like a somewhat distorty limiter. It’s not at all about lookahead (in fact it doesn’t have any) or […]
TL;DW: PurestSquish is an open-sounding compressor with bass bloom. PurestSquish.zip(355K) This time, the video’s enormously long so I’ll be brief: PurestSquish is a compressor, with its own sound. In the video I compare it to Pressure4, Logical4, and SurgeTide, and also show how it can be used in conjunction with SurgeTide (a real ‘sleeper’ plugin […]
