Plasma

New FFT goodnes from Izotope with Plasma !
Imagine Gullfoss and Spectre had a baby.
It would be similiar to this.
What we have here is dynamic tube saturation added via FFT processing and different profiles.
A combination that is new afaik.
[ Sideinfo: the FFT code seems to work with 16 bins. Which is a lot less resolution than for example Soothe2. But it seems to be the right spot for this one, the shown graph smoothed out just could be a bit missleading and suggesting more individual FFT bins ]
Normally I am not a fan of Izotope's frequency response profiles. They just didnt worked me so far. For EQ jobs for example I prefer the work from Sonible.
But this one is a different animal.
Theese profiles worked very well for me!
In the picture you can see Plasma filling the danger area from 200 to 500 Hz with tube saturation type harmonics very well.
This is the frequency area where you can try a lot of things and loose a lot of hair in the attempt to get it sounding full but not scooped.
Plasma's time parameters also seem to work really nicely transparent keeping it stable but dynamic as well.
This is a job I could do with Spectre in mastering as well - but it would be technically different process and not dynamically moving of course.
The effect can be very subtle and the added harmonics really dont go in too extreme, I really really like the smootheness of this one.
Just a tiny bit more body and fullness in this case, super nice.
And you can split it into mid side or even transient / sustain giving you two individual instances to control differently with differnt profiles even.
This one came out so simple and elegant yet so very effective.
Nice job Izotope. This one is really a make everything sound better plugin so far.