Devious Machines release Bass Focus - Psychoacoustic bass enhancer

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Take bass seriously

Bass Focus is an advanced low frequency enhancer plugin for mixing and mastering.

With Bass Focus, your bass will sound fuller, louder, and more powerful, without losing its original character or identity. And on small speakers, Bass Focus reveals low end which would otherwise be lost, ensuring your music sounds great everywhere.

Use it everywhere

Bass Focus can enhance individual instruments or an entire mix. It adds power to 808s, solidifies kick drums, thickens synths and bass guitars, and much more. At the mastering stage, it can be used to improve mix translation and presence, thicken low end, or recover headroom in mixes with too much sub.

How it works

Bass Focus generates harmonics which are higher in frequency than the original bass, but are perceived as part of the same sound. This makes the original low frequency sound louder, increasing perceived presence and power. This psychoacoustic effect works even when the original frequency isn’t audible, such as when listening on smaller speakers.

Take Control Of Your Tone

Bass Focus’ unique algorithm goes beyond simple saturation, generating clean, controllable harmonics which are independent of input level. It offers precise control over the frequencies affected, the balance of even and odd harmonics, and the richness of the generated spectrum. Three output faders allow the clean, harmonic and top end signals to be balanced independently, and a helpful spectrum display offers visual feedback.

Bass Focus is out now, priced £29 / $36

https://www.kvraudio.com/product/bass-f ... s-machines
https://deviousmachines.com/bassfocus

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Yeah just make me spend more money :)
I have been looking for a Waves Maxx Bass Replacement for quite awhile and this is what i was hoping BassLane Pro was.
Off to demo. or just buy it cause I know I will anyway.
I am a Everything Bundle device owner and seeing an upgrade price..
No official emails yet.. I assume the email doesn't have any coupon for an even further reduction in cost?
rsp
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zvenx wrote: Tue Jun 04, 2024 10:08 pm Yeah just make me spend more money :)
I have been looking for a Waves Maxx Bass Replacement for quite awhile and this is what i was hoping BassLane Pro was.
Off to demo. or just buy it cause I know I will anyway.
I am a Everything Bundle device owner and seeing an upgrade price..
No official emails yet.. I assume the email doesn't have any coupon for an even further reduction in cost?
rsp
Hope you like it!

There'll be an email going out about it shortly. No coupon or launch sale this time. We decided to price it affordably rather than give it a silly inflated RRP and blow the "discount" horn constantly. Plus we just released a new bundle with it in, so if you own the Everything 3 bundle already then the upgrade price to get it is even cheaper.

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And bought..

rsp
sound sculptist

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need to rename your download link to
https://deviousmachines.com/bassfocus-downloads/
currently it's searching for bassfactory-downloads/

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zvenx wrote: Tue Jun 04, 2024 10:08 pm I have been looking for a Waves Maxx Bass Replacement for quite awhile and this is what i was hoping BassLane Pro was.
Umm.. BassLane Pro can indeed do exactly this kind of processing. In my opinion, it does it more transparently than anything else on the market.

.. and having just tested Bass Focus, that still remains my opinion.

The only issue I have with BassLane Pro is the mid/side part of the harmonics generation. That one can sound quite wonky at times as a shift to the sides, even in stereo mode, doesn't quite correlate with the original signal. This sort of makes sense in the overall idea of the process where it's supposed to be used to mono bass information but I wish it had a normal simple stereo to stereo mode where everything correlates 1 to 1. In fact, I'll send a feature request for just this right now. :)

Other than that, BassLane still produces the most natural harmonics and gives the user immense control over how they spread out into higher registers. The 'Damped' + Compression controls are amazing and completely unique.
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It does this:
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Bass Focus generates harmonics which are higher in frequency than the original bass, but are perceived as part of the same sound. This makes the original low frequency sound louder, increasing perceived presence and power. This psychoacoustic effect works even when the original frequency isn’t audible, such as when listening on smaller speakers."
I specifically emailed them when it came out and asked them if it could do this, they told me no.
I am sure i still have the email (or was it a gearspace post?)

rsp
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zvenx wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2024 2:25 am I specifically emailed them when it came out and asked them if it could do this, they told me no.
I am sure i still have the email (or was it a gearspace post?)

rsp
Then they gave you the wrong information. The harmonics section in BassLane Pro is extremely suitable for precisely this type of processing.

If you look at the graphs in Plugin Doctor and compare to Bass Focus, you'll see they are very similar.. though you get a lot more control over the harmonics generation in BassLane Pro.

The strength of Bass Focus though seems to be that there is a sort of program dependency to the process. It can be completely level independent too it seems, which is not something you have control over in BassLane Pro.

There's no magic to this. It's all based on the exact same principle as it has always been. It's simply adding a bunch of harmonics in a way that try to recreate (reinforce) the psychoacustics of the fundamental frequency. The differences you'll hear in any of these processors is in the relative volume and envelope shapes of these harmonics.

Personally I still think nobody has done this kind of processor "correctly". I think the best way to do this is still to do some kind of hybrid of synthesis and harmonics. The synthesis part should have precise tracking of sustained portions of a sound and a very program dependent way of operation (meaning a complex array of envelope followers, sort of what is done in good brickwall limiters. The psychoacustic principles would be about the same). Then give the user precise control over transient versus sustained portions of the sound and precise control over the harmonic series.

Don't get me wrong though, Bass Focus seems really straight forward to use and does indeed seem to produce quite good results very quickly. This is not as easy to achieve with BassLane Pro, but I was able to get more natural results in about 10 minutes of tweaking.
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Ok,.. yeah then i was given wrong info so i didn't even demo Basslane Pro.

Tbh, I know you tend to like ToneProjects stuff.. it was because of you I looked at Unisum or whatever it was called. It was way too complicated for my workflow (i like simple and intuitive and sounds great... all in equal quanties).. i eventually bought kevin or is it kelvin and yet to use it once in a project two years later?
So maybe i would not have gotten along with BassLane Pro..
But as you know i trust/envy your years..

Will spend more time with this tomorrow and after.
rsp
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You could actually use Kelvin to do the same thing too because it has those configurable filters.

The problem with the marketing "get bass to be heard on small speakers" is that it never REALLY works. It is incredibly easy to completely screw up the original tone of a mix. Yes, you could get an almost sine wave bass at 50Hz to be heard in a small speaker with cutoff at 150Hz but it'll have drastically changed the tonality of the original sound and no longer sounds like an actual sine wave bass.

There is no magic bullet, but the most transparent (that being the key word here) so far is BassLane Pro. It'll do the least amounts of damage while still giving a very small but perceptible increase in notes below cutoff of a small speaker.
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sqigls wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2024 12:22 am need to rename your download link to
https://deviousmachines.com/bassfocus-downloads/
currently it's searching for bassfactory-downloads/
Thanks, that's fixed now

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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh why now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

ok so i got some bass enhancers now but i dunno yet which one i like the most so far and i need to sit down once and test them A/B
I recently got Denise Audio BASS XXL, i wonder what BASS Focus brings more to the table?
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send money to buy plugin :?
aliasing plugin owner
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I don't even care how it does what it does. I really like what it does so I bought it.

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Anybody who's used both this and Denise Audio BassXXL have any thoughts? I'm likely to pick up one at some point. Lately I've been doing a lot of music for people to use for videos that get viewed on the internet or shown on sound systems lacking a low end, so I'll demo both, but curious to hear others' thoughts.

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