SpecCraft by Three-Body Technology

[El°HYM]

Normally not too excited about the new Soothe2 Killer, or DSEQ3 contender. yet the Audio examples of this, especially Delta ones (on their Site) got me interested a bit.

SpecCraft is a next-generation dynamic resonance suppressor, spectrum compressor, and smart EQ. It specializes in eliminating the greatest enemy in your mix: unwanted resonances. Whether it’s harsh shrills or muddy booms, SpecCraft identifies them all and dynamically applies matching suppression at each and every audio frame.

But wait, there’s more! SpecCraft not only helps you 'seek and destroy' resonance problems but can also fill the void left behind by generating real-time spectrum compensation curves, ensuring no dynamics loss or artifacts due to resonance suppression.

With SpecCraft, your mix stays clean, balanced, and full of life from start to finish.

https://www.threebodytech.com/en/products/speccraft

[0degree]

Interesting - anybody tried comparing it to Waves Curves Equator?

[qtheerearranger]

excited to demo this ty for sharing. never purchased from TBT directly. do they have a download manager or just individual plugin downloads from website?

[enCiphered]

Sounds great, I'm eagerly waiting for Bmanic to deliver an excellent review, as he usually does

[worldfever]

also curious, people that demo this and have soothe or equator, let us know what you think!

[Greenstorm33]

I guess they're not selling this one through PA? Would be a no-brainer @ $30

[morphex]

I like seeing all of this new tech that allows us more surgical precision over our mixes. These specialized tools can save quite a bit of time and I think they can help amateur mixes sound clearer and more polished. And that’s a good thing.

I haven’t tried it out yet, but SpecCraft has some interesting tricks up it’s sleeve. So I plan on trying the demo. Three-Body Technology has multiple plug-ins that appear to be designed specifically to aid in the mixing process.

I, for one, appreciate any tool that can improve my sonic signature. They have excellent features and professional-looking GUIs. Has anyone had any problems with their plug-ins running on Apple Silicon and macOS Sonoma 14.4 and up? Thanks for any info in advance.

[El°HYM]

I guess they're not selling this one through PA? Would be a no-brainer @ $30

Since Dirk Ulrich seems involved... who knows.

[martiu]

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[bmanic]

Hmm.. I've only tried this for about an hour now and so far I'm quite impressed. It's definitely not at all a Soothe killer as it sounds and behaves very differently.. but that's not to say it's bad at all. On the contrary, it seems to be really useful in a very different way. I had excellent results using this more like one would use Melda's MSpectralDynamics, with some new novel ways of masking the artifacts.

It really does work pretty well, but like with all of these kinds of processors, it is extremely easy to over do them!

I'm pretty sure I will end up purchasing this but as I own MSpectralDynamics I'll have to do some comparisons first.

The only negative I have with this thing is that they obviously use quite small FFT window sizes so the resolution in the bass region is not at all optimal. Would love a way to tweak it for more resolution in the bass.. or even some kind of hybrid IIR system where anything below 400Hz used a bunch of IIR filters instead. This would allow much more targeted problem areas in the bass. For mids, high-mids and highs this tool is exceptionally powerful and like I already said, the "masking" tools really do work (they are called "formant" and "highs").

I also didn't really like the adaptive processing of the threshold. It needs a lot more program dependency to be useful. Now it sort of "moves against" the music and can be heard pumping in a bad way.. but you don't really need to use it at all, or perhaps just use it a tiny bit.

Haven't tried the profiles at all yet as I'm not really at all interested in them as this is in my opinion a precision tool for specific tasks. I don't think this is an alternative for any kind of 'auto-mastering' or even automatic polishing. It's too finicky for that. But we'll see.. it's quite a deep plugin so this will take a while to learn.

[billinder33]

Aside from the profiling, what does this do differently than Soothe?

TBH I use Soothe a lot less than I thought I would when I bought it. And half the time I try to solve a problem with it I'm left unsatisfied and either reach for Pro-Q or come up with some other solution. Same with MtM RESO.

Is this one trying to solve a different problem? And if not, is it better than Soothe or RESO?

[motomotomoto]

As someone who has most of the contenders in this category of processors, I think it’s a mistake to try to compare them based on what they “do”. They all do more or less the same thing, which is push the audio toward a curve adaptively, most frequently pink noise but some are based on white, brown, or a learned target.

The big difference is the workflow and how they sound. Each of these has a tone to it, derived from different processing techniques.

A nice comparison is with compressors, which there are many which all do the same thing, but yet a vari-mu, opto, and fet all sound different in their own way.

I’m most curious about how they are being used by pros day to day and what uses they are finding for this type of processing. I’ve seen an engineer who has credits on all sorts of A list projects using them quite liberally on all sorts of sources gently just to provide some evening of the sound and save time, sort of like how a comp would be used in a chain. Lately I’ve been using the waves factory one a lot as a way to bring certain instruments forward in a mix. Seems counter intuitive but I was recommended this use case by the developer in a back and forth and I think it does work. The processed tone is just more appealing to the ear and is noticed more in my experience.

[Hanz Meyzer]

What's the latency? Is it better than TBProAudio DSEQ3?

[El°HYM]

Pretty much unusable @ 8x (Slow) causing 4604 samples, 48 ms.

[Hanz Meyzer]

Ouch!... That's not good at all. Aren't there already enough of these, with large latencies? Soothe has very low latency, correct? never tried it...