Curious what the situations you find it useful to go with negative sensitivity with soothe? Thank you. I use this plug in every day! its so good. I had a chance to meet you as well at Namm back in 2020. You are a first class business all around. Thank you for everything!!- Jon
Hi Jon! By negative sensitivity I’ll assume you’re talking about a negative Depth, which is indeed kinda like a sensitivity control! Depth works kind of like a compensated “drive” control for the algorithm. The input level and gain staging have an effect on how soothe handles, so we offer negative depth values (=compensated attenuation) for people who are mixing very hot in the DAW. Basically you don’t need to worry about your gain staging that much with soothe: just set the depth to where soothe is acting how you like, no matter what the value reads on the knob.
NAMM 2020 was quite a bit before my time with the company. My first gig with oeksound were the Youtube tutorials for Bloom and this year was my first NAMM spent at oeksound’s booth. If you find yourself at NAMM next year, come say hi!
-Villberg
ok cool! thanks for that. I suppose what I meant to say was the eq points on the screen of soothe, when you push them up they attenuate the frequencies, but when you pull the frequency down on the screen would that do that opposite and boost? Sorry if that’s confusing! I can do a screen grab of what I mean as well. Just curious what is actually happening as I always use it boosting resonant frequencies and then they are attenuated, so curious what opposite does. Thank you again!
Ah, I see what you mean now! Pulling frequencies down on the curve just makes soothe ignore them. The more you cut, the less those frequencies are going to be processed. Think of the curve as guiding soothe to work where you want it! You can be as specific as you want by using the filters!
I tend to use soothe very surgically: if I hear a problem in the 2kHz area, I’ll pull both the low and high cuts close to that frequency. That way soothe is managing the specific problematic frequency and leaving the rest as is.
-Villberg
That makes sense! thanks so much for clarifying that.