felixcarcone's Reviews

Best « modern » plugin ever made ?

It’s rare, but it happens: sometimes a product becomes a legend and a full success right away. It’s even more impressive when it’s coming from a new brand as a first plugin.

Oeksound changed the game few years back with this incredible tool, designed to help you remove frequency problems out of individual and full tracks. Version 2 sounds even better and goes lower in the spectrum. The truth is that the industry was almost waiting for this thing but nobody was really pushing into it, apart from dynamic and clever static EQs (that are still as important, don’t get me wrong).

This thing really defines what digital can do (along with software like RX and Melodyne) and it’s really cool to see some people coming out with such dramatic and so great sounding ideas. It helps so much it’s almost scary. But yeah it’s musical, transparent, super fast, well...you name it, already a classic. Learn it and you will be rewarded ! Thanks Oeksound, keep up !

PS: their second plugin, Spiff, is also a true god-send for mixing and editing. You want to create analog-like sweet dynamics ? Crazy punch ? Try it !

Most effective de-harsher

Sometimes, a plugin just works, not matter what. Yes it might be just a simple fixed EQ, but damn how fast and effective this thing is ! I use it everywhere, it’s fast, it’s clean, it works each time and the results speak for themselves right away. A pure winner for me. Big thanks to the creators.

Beauty, out of nowhere

Great professional plugin by a super devoted creator, Crave EQ tries to match both the beautiful sound of analog and the flexibility of digital, in one super sounding tool. Keith really tries to suppress artefacts and push sound quality to the max, and that kind of philosophy is very very welcome today.