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Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Sun Nov 30, 2025 8:43 am

hi all,

yeah BF stress... so this year I'm really not as hyped as before as I still got plugins from last year I didnt use much and was like "hey why should I get more now? when I got so much stuff unexplored?" ok then I checked some youtubers' lists who show plugins they still use since some time and are still fresh.

I got various plugins like the sonible ones, Fabfilter of course and also the Oeksound ones.

SplitEQ seems really great but I dunno if it is bringing me something new.

1. I was hyped for the TRANSIENT part, but Spiff is the same isnt it?

2. the Tonal part is still interesting, but I might be covered but cannot think of a plugin which might do it already, do you know plugins which cover this part as well? normally this should be done in the mix and not with a EQ afterwards...

thanks

EDIT!
oh my, i am so stupid, I didnt know SplitEQ is included in Anthology XII, i got this plugin already

Dombaeb · Post by **Dombaeb** » Sun Nov 30, 2025 9:01 am

In my experience, SplitEQ is an more diverse engineering tool for precise surgical control, while Spiff closer to the tone shaping territory. SplitEQ does what you tell it to do and does it well, solves problems, places or removes accents if you know what you're doing. Spiff is a similar tool, but often you get more musical results and should rely on ears from the beginning.

billinder33 · Post by **billinder33** » Sun Nov 30, 2025 12:52 pm

Not used Spiff so can't comment on that one.

SplitEQ I bought when it came out and thought I would get a lot of milage out of it, but have barely used it since. In theory it seems great, but in practice I just never found a use case for it that can't be solved with a regular EQ and a broadband Transit shaper.

If you're GAS'ing and don't already have it, Krafter is currently $50 on BF sale and is a killer mastering/2-buss loudness machine. It'll easily give you .5 to 1 LUF of headroom on dense mixes, cleaner than any clipper you've ever used.

GusGranite · Post by **GusGranite** » Sun Nov 30, 2025 2:24 pm

I think one of the Ozone 12 EQs does the transient sustain thing as well now.

sl1200mk2 · Post by **sl1200mk2** » Sun Nov 30, 2025 3:01 pm

I like Oeksound a lot and use both Bloom and Soothe quite a bit, but I had slept on Spiff since its release. At least for me, that was a mistake, and after demoing it, I quickly realized it's a very useful tool. I have some other transient processors, like Punctuate, which works well on various material, but in usual form to Oeksound, Spiff has a great workflow, and the processing is excellent. I wish that I had picked it up much sooner.

Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Sun Nov 30, 2025 3:14 pm

oh my, i am so stupid, I didnt know SplitEQ is included in Anthology XII, i got this plugin already

babyslick · Post by **babyslick** » Wed Dec 03, 2025 2:56 pm

Yes, the Ozone EQ has a transient/sustain mode now starting with version 11. They've also made it a free plugin.

edhombre · Post by **edhombre** » Wed Dec 03, 2025 10:07 pm

babyslick wrote: Wed Dec 03, 2025 2:56 pm Yes, the Ozone EQ has a transient/sustain mode now starting with version 11. They've also made it a free plugin.

I did quick A/B between the free Ozone EQ and SplitEQ during an Eventide sale a bit back and ending up not getting SplitEQ. Preferred the workflow slightly in Ozone EQ and sonically didn't really find SplitEQ any better. It's a cool freebie! Don't use it a lot but it can solve some problems normal eq can't - https://www.native-instruments.com/en/p ... one-12-eq/

Tip. Save the default on your daw to come up straight into Transient/sustain mode.

Eventide SplitEQ - what do you think? Spiff etc. compared? How is the Tonal part?