Ambience is an early Airwindows plugin that uses the concept of Haas effect (or, precedence effect, or law of first wavefront) to fill in additional sonic information in a way that doesn’t mask the initial transient. It does this in an interesting way: it’s calling on lots of individual delay taps from 811 to 7883 samples, […]
Highpass is a really old one! It’s a simple one-pole Airwindows interleaved highpass filter, but it has a weird control (because of course it does). That control is loose/tight, and it’s one of the most spectacular secret weapons for bass/subs mastering ever. In the middle, it returns a very normal sort of highpass, not too steep […]
DeEssDemo is the secretest of secret weapons, apparently. It’s found its way into some surprising places, even though it’s a generic Audio Unit plugin from 2007 (updated to 64 bit around 2011) with puzzling and obtuse controls. But the thing is, this plugin sonically outperforms anything when you really, really know what you’re doing, so I’ll […]
Air was a precursor to Energy, pioneering the techniques for that type of frequency-hyping. Anyone who owned Air got crossgraded to Energy for free, because it was just more of the same with more sophistication and controllability. Air has four controls: a 22K tap, a 15K tap, and an 11K tap, plus a ‘Filters Q’ […]
