User Testimonials
If you need an FFT analyzer for your material, look no further than SPAN. It's got all the settings you really need and now that the peak hold hang issue is solved, it's perfect.
Thanks again Voxengo. I've recommended this plugin more times than I can count.
Finally! Thank you! I've remixed or remastered allot of music recently using a varity of Voxengo products and the difference is amazing. The plugins are well designed. From TV commercials to Fantsatic 4 trailers to Christian music to Rap - these plugins give me the sound i hear in my head.
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I’ve been fascinated by the impulse response technique ever since the beginning of the 1990ies and followed the development and improvements that this technique could offer in the reverberation aria ever since. I’ve used Pristine Space Light together with Impulse modeler since Pristine Space Light was first released. My impression is that the quality is outstanding and could compare to software solutions way up in the price list.
Let me give you an example: Lately there have been a release within a very big company (no names given) which combines what they call High definition impulse response together with traditional solutions for reverberation. I took a vocal track (dry) and added some HDIR and modified it to my taste. I spent about 4 hours (mostly because of curiosity) to get it right. This new software is in fact impressive.
Then I designed a room of comparable size with Impulse modeler and imported to pristine space light and applied it on my vocal track. I made adjustments of my taste and noticed that there is absolutely no modification restrictions in PSL compared to the very big company’s newly released product. When I was satisfied with the result, I made an A/B comparison.
Guess what? Pristine Space Light + IM sounded better, warmer and more natural. I tested the comparison on a few of my colleges and their opinion was the same.
It’s fair to give “the big company” credit in that I was not used to their GUI and have used PSL+IM for a while. It could be that I did not use the full capacity of the newly released product from the big company. But then again, it took me about 45 minutes (compared with 4 hours) to beat the big company’s quality reverb convolution. In my opinion, there is not that much to discuss.
This is in no way a scientific correct comparison between software solutions but one thing is without any doubt, the capacity to modulate impulse response is far better in PSL. And – in my view, you get better quality in terms of
1) Natural sounding
2) Realistic sound
with PSL.
Did I mention that the big company’s software costs around three times as much as PSL+IM together? But then again, this is not a fair way to compare software since the big company’s software is not able of modeling your own acoustic room. You are bound to use already made “standard” rooms or other solutions. So it’s fairer to compare PSL (solely) with the big company’s software. Then the big company’s software is about six times as expensive and not really any better.
My hat is of for Aleksey Vaneev.
Voxformer is my first call channel strip for vocals. I use a MOTU 828 MKII as the pre-amp stage for a Rode NT-1A and route it through Creamware Scope via ADAT into Cubase SX3 or Sonar 4PE and Antares Mic-Modeler. I generally create a preset for each vocalist and call that up for recording.
I cannot tell you how amazing this sounds. It sounds better than the UA-LA, Avalon and Focusrite hardware. Hard to beleive but the recordings are the proof. Amazingly, it does this for a ridiculously low price point by comparison. I have been skeptical that plug-ins could sound so great, but the proof is that the hardware sits on the shelf and when clients come in all I have to do is load up their presets and we're ready to go in a flash. I have also used Voxformer and Mic-Modeler to match recordings done in other studios with high end hardware. While this takes a bit of time it is amazing that a convincing match can be done with the software only.
For a long time I have been searching for the perfect Sample Rate Converter - and this is as close as I have yet come.
The quality from this is , to put it bluntly, incredible. Best of all is the fact it only uses whole numbers to do the conversions instead of the fractions used by others causing the inevitable rounding errors. Much better to use whole numbers only.
Also, you have 2 different modes - Linear Phase and Minimum Phase. Purists will tell you to use LinPhase as it avoids any form of Phase smearing whatsoever, but my preference is MinPhase as it sounds exactly like the Audio has been through a round trip of seriously high end Digital-Analogue-Digital converter chain.
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