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Interesting, De-verb. Amazing what is possible with software these days.

Do you think a 1/3 octave spectral eq is fine grained enough for what you are doing? That's 31 sliders. Or, we could just focus on the vocal range and have more sliders in that range or only sliders for that range.

spam EQ's are kinda passe these days but (having worked in Sound in the late 70's and early 80's) I've always been more comfortable with them than parametric, I think for the visual feedback of the faders. With VSTs like I mention above you get the visual feedback as well though.

One advantage of Spectral EQ is zero phase shift however (AFAIK).

I don't normally post experimental layouts here, but I'll make an exeption and put this out there for general comments.



This layout as 1/3 octave spectral EQs added on the Rears in the ArcTan Method. See the new check boxes at the very bottom of the ArcTan controls.

These Spectral EQs are really pushing Plogue's limits and I had LOTS of crashes getting these installed so I can't swear to these being very stable. 64 additional sliders! Save Often!

The idea here is not to boost wanted sounds in the rears but to cut unwanted sounds. You may also want to try cutting out stuff below 200 Hz, if that's not adding things to the mix. Sould result in tighter bass and cleaner sounding rears (we Hope).

I'm going to keep exeperimenting along some of these lines but would appreciate feedback on what we have so far.

As an expeiment, I did this in the most simple SPEC layout, rather than the more complex, so this may not be sutied for actuall conversions with ZAG/PTA etc. but is just meant to listen to and see if we're headed in a good direction.

One last Caveat, I normall don't save layouts for posting with controls open on 2nd or 3rd monitors, but I did in this case (again, this is an experimental layout ) Plogue is supposed to not open things on monitors you don't have but if you can't see the contorls on this layout let me know and all re-post on one monitor.

SPEC4.3.2 Simple Rear EQ Test.rar

Thank you very much, Zeerround! I will give that layout a throughout test run and will let you know how it works for me.

Just started to play arround with it a bit and I have no problems at all with the DSP load. Great job!

Found another wiring bug in ArcTan. Updated package to 4.3.2.

Never had so much trouble than with a program like Plogue Bidule.
I'm running both the Mac OS X/Win version and i'm unable to make the program load the plugins of SPEC. I can see them in the layout's paragraph but i can't expand them. Both the SPEC and ZAG boxes are red in the paragraph. I tried re-installing Bidule and the SPEC layout/plugins both manually and with the setup that comes with the package, but all i can see is just red boxes over and over again. How can i make Bidule load them correctly??