Soothe2 adds full range functionality to the original’s mid and high range of operation making it effective across a wide range of content, with new Soft and Hard modes added. It is intended as a utility to tame bumps that may only periodically reach ‘problem’ levels in the same way that a conventional dynamic EQ can help, effectively giving you compressor-style time and threshold controls to control the amount of cut at specific bands. Oeksound describe soothe2 as a “dynamic resonance suppressor”, and it’s helpful to think of it as their take on an intelligent dynamic EQ. Essentially, these problem solvers are two flavours of dynamic EQ across two plugins where a single one would be overridingly complex. Oeksound soothe2 and spiff are two unique products that also exist in another place where we need to understand what they are doing, in order to know where and how to apply them. Understanding this difference is necessary even down to choosing which one to actually use! A good example of this is understanding the difference between two closely related processes multiband compression and dynamic EQ. Although these new ways of working have expanded the technical and creative possibilities available to us, they inevitably have brought new learning curves as well. The evolution of plugins has more recently seen solutions that blur the lines between dynamics processing and EQ. These two tools from Finland promise previously unachievable ways to shape the spectral and transient content of sounds, but what do the controls mean? We take a look…

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