You can really juice up your Mid Hi channel, for instance, giving your vocal some extra bite without affecting the cymbals, assuming they're panned out to the sides of the mix. Similar to the process other manufacturers use in "exciters", these harmonics make the signal seem louder without boosting the overall level, and with bx_XL, you have control over how this process affects each of the three discrete bands of the limiter. You can apply different amounts of "XL" to each band individually as well, which is what Brainworx calls the addition of third and fifth-order harmonics. You can set your crossover point for the split of the mid signal, and limit each band separately, with different attack and release settings. Basically you have three "bands" in your limiter, but instead of being the typical low, mid, and high bands, they are Mid Lo (the low end of the center channel), Mid Hi (the high end of the center), and Side. It's got too many features to explain in detail here, so I'll just give you the nutshell description. The other Brainworx plugin I gave a test flight is bx_XL, a mastering limiter that employs M/S (mid/side) processing to give vast control over the stereo imaging of any stereo source during mixing or mastering. Through fine- tuning the Tone frequency, filters, and Tilt control, I was able to make the mixes fit much better with the rest of the album, while retaining the majority of the center-channel punch that the mono mixes had delivered. As for use on full-program material, I just happened to do a mastering project for Nate Denver's Neck while I was testing out the plugin, and he had two mixes that had ended up in mono. I wish the low-frequency filter came up higher than 250 Hz to allow excluding more midrange from the stereo effect, but other than that small detail, I found bx_stereomaker super-effective for giving mono tracks a little extra space in the mix without applying reverb or setting up the old copy/pan/delay method I've been employing for years. With the Hi-Damp and Mono-Freq controls, you can adjust the high and low frequencies of the pseudo-side signal to alter theįrequency curve of the stereo-ized material, and in so doing, keep the highs and lows more mono. There are meters for overall phase correlation, L/R balance, and RMS and peak output level. (Pan affects the placement of the center signal whereas Tilt leaves the mid signal centered and just adjusts the side-to-side balance.) You can solo each of the channels (mid or side) separately to hear exactly what is getting spread out to the extremities. There is a control for the overall width of the effect, as well as a knob for Pan or Tilt. Counterintuitively, at the lower settings (around 20 Hz), you can hear the most effect on the vocal range, where it sounds like a stereo doubler. In practice, this makes for a drastically different sound depending on where it is set. The main control is labeled Tone, and it chooses the "slicing frequency interval", according to the manual.
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(I won't waste words saying anything about the freebies aside from: DOWNLOAD THEM! THEY'RE FREE!)īrainworx bx_stereomaker is a very unique plugin that takes a mono ("mid") track and creates a stereo image, through a digitally simulated "side" signal.
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I got to audition five of the plugins offered by the Alliance, in addition to the four free ones they're offering on their site. The concept was to offer customers a one-stop portal for high-end plugins modeled after analog units by SPL, Vertigo Sound, and Elysia, as well as Brainworx's own well- respected bx series. When the German plugin experts at Brainworx decided to port some of the best contemporary German and American hardware into the digital domain, they started a new company called the Plugin Alliance.
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