Product Reviews by KVR Members

This plugin is a bit off the beaten path for me. But one use case for me is to make the snares of a snare drum sample bright and dare I say it? Crisp.

Mix in a bit of the Crisp, and a sandpaper roll on a snare sounds great.

Not something I use on every track, but it does what it does, really well. The only reason I don't give it 5 stars is because I don't use it very often.

Kudos to the dev.

Very nice dynamic EQ, but it's kinda hard to use because every settings seems to be separated and you have to adjust them individually when you use dynamic feature. It's technically nice to have more controls, but practically it's just an overcomplication in this very case. Usually I'd just want to grab a band and sculp the sound, and enables the dynamic feature to further tame the same exact area. And I'd just put&grab another band if I want to go narrower, wider, or for a more specific area- because it's way easier than trying to establish a complicated sub-settings structure within a band.

But overall and after all, it's simply a decent and great eq in general. Won't regret having it in case. :D.

Your Eminence is a verry good mastering Tool. Only downside is you will have to install the Aquarius Ökosystem. Good quality stuff 4 free.

I'm a dialogue editor and re-recording mixer by trade.

This plugins closest kin is the Cedar DNS hardware or plugin. This gives you a real-time(zero latency), super low CPU noise suppressor, with a slightly eleveated feature set when compared to the DNS stuff. It's a clever multi-band gate one might be tempted to describe it.

I've used this, and its classic/free version on recording and mixing sessions. I had trains rumbling by outside the studio location. With a minute of setup, this can keep it out of your hair to a good degree.

All the AI stuff has extreme latency and extreme CPU requirements. If that's what you want, try Clarity Vx by Waves(with all the caveats that Waves offers). This is the opposite, yet it works really well. No copy protection. Works great on all systems.

Try the Classic/Free version first. Get comfortable with it, then upgrade to this.

I mean, hey, we mixed movies with noise suppression similar to this ever since the Cedar DNS 1000 showed up around the year 2000. This is great stuff and you can use it for free, with some additional features for the the low price of the Pro version.

I have at least three other versions of the Wurlitzer piano from other manufacturers. Most of them suffer from a kind of "fuzziness" that I find to be inauthentic (I once owned the real deal). This one, however, has a clarity that I have been looking for. The pure Wurly is a great by itself, but the stomp boxes are well modeled and can bring out some great effects.

Well, certainly not one of the most beautiful plugins, also the very technical documentation, which unfortunately also includes some necessary informations about installing and the differently modeled versions, but often not at first glance visible, most probably will not please everybody, nevertheless it is one of the most professional and competent documentations, I have seen for an amp model plugin.

But - the sounds - if properly adjusted - are excellent! At least with a matching cab IR behind and a noise gate in between.

I hardy before have heard so natural and authentic Tweed Deluxe sounds from any amp simulation plugin. They even are offered in different variations - which you do not even get in reality, unless you order or build yourself a customized version with these modifications - additionally the "options"-site even allows some more fine-tuning or tweaking. What the different options affect and in which way, is intensely described in the documentation.

Great tones from classic vintage clean to this typical, slightly broken sounding Tweed Deluxe crunch in CD SE3 mode, CD BAL and the LTP modes sound a little different, a little more British in my opinion, but in different ways. Even these typical Neil Young sounds are well adjustable in 12AX7 mode, turn "compensation" off and increase input gain a little, but you can also adjust completely different sounds up to even nice Vox or Plexi sounds, if you have learned, what to do where.

With all the tweaking options properly used, after having understood the informations about the controls in the documentation and in combination with matching cabinet IR's a lot of authentic but also a lot of differently voiced sounds are adjustable. So you can tweak your own, unique boutique amp sound completely for free, at least, if you have taken the time and have found the necessary informtaion in the documentation.

Nevertheless this plugins also works as a plug-in (your guitar) and play plugin, but the really great sounds I rather got, after having read a lot and tweaked a little.

Even the added speaker IR (which needs an additional IR loader) sounds good, very authentically and matches well. Also interesting, how different IR's affect the sound and often need completely different settings. Proves for me the quality of the tones, as every guitar gear is some sort of interactive circuit, so not every combination automatically sounds right, the right combinations make the great tones, but also the not so great ones.

A little complicated first, on the other hand really professionally made and - most of all - sounding.

The only disadvantage, I have found, is, that this plugin at higher volume settings definitely needs a good noise gate, but this also concerns a lot of commercial, professional plugins, which often have the noise gate built in and this gem is freeware and I anyway have some nice noise gate plugins, so this is no problem at all.

Another comparable plugin, based on a 5E2, AC-30 or 1959 circuit also would be very nice somewhen.

One of the best sounding and flexible amp plugins, I have heard during the last time and this, although I am not really such a great Tweed Deluxe amp sound fan, but maybe the reason is, that I never got close to a real one, which sounded as good as this plugin does. And it also did not offer so many excellent alternate sounds...

Some people do, what, they can, a few ones really can, what they do! Mr. Keller definitely belongs to the very rare, second league. At least for me.

Thank you very much for this very nice plugin.

One of the best eq's I've ever used. Probably the best free eq tbh. The amount of useful features it has is insane for a free product.

I love Spitfire audio. I do. But this product was not fortunate. I've got around 400 plugins installed. Phobos is without a doubt the most unstable piece of software I've ever bought. Most of the time it crashes the whole DAW right away upon load. Not usable at all. It crashes Ableton, it crashes Reaper it crashes Cubase. All tested today with the latest version.

(Installation absolutely standard, with normal default VST3 path, managed by Spitfire's manager.).

Two years back I contacted the support, explained my problem, even tested a few builds they did for me. No luck. I gave up on that plugin and went on with my life with hopes they would fix it meanwhile. Because I saw that they made another collab with BT lately (whom I love), I gave my expansive paperweight of a plugin another try. Re-installed it. Noticed that the version number did not change over those two years (so likely zero development) and yes ... the plugin still crashes.

I'm sad, because I like the idea of convolution synth/library, but nope, it's still unusable. Contacted the support again. I'll try to require refund/product swap again. But no. As of right now I can't recommend this plugin. I'm sorry Spitfire, I love you, but this one is crap, unfortunatelly.

I'll be happy to edit this review when they solve my issue. From the few times the plugin actually run, I really liked what it came out of it. ...before it crashed again.

Though the developers say there may be a few bugs, this works perfectly for me in Reaper. Probably the best free alternative to Trackspacer you can find. This video here helpfully explains the features in depth, but here's how I use it on kick and bass:

• The bass is clashing with the kick, so I put TheMasker on the bass bus and send the kick to the sidechain input.
• Set 'MASKED FREQS' to bury.
• Adjust 'SIDECHAIN LEVEL' so the effect is actually triggered.

The result is that whenever the kick is playing, TheMasker cuts any clashing frequencies on the bass.

It sounds good but I had downloaded version 1.0 for free a few weeks ago... What made you change your mind.