Variety Of Sound has posted details of preFIX, its upcoming pre-mixing and audio alignment tool which typically takes place upfront the mixing process.
It provides a clever tool set to clean-up, fix and align audio tracks (typically taken from recordings) concerning overall frequency correction, phase alignment, spatial stereo field corrections and routing. It contains a complete gate/expander solution with a dedicated and comprehensive sidechain filtering path as well.
preFIX features
- Main audio path filter
- Baxandall style shelving filter with pristine audio quality
- Smooth butterworth high- and lowpass filter with switchable characteristics (12 and 24dB per octave)
- Both are oversampled and match their analog model curve behavior
- Sidechain path EQ and filter
- Whole spectrum “tilt style” balancing filter with adjustable center frequency
- Smooth butterworth high- and lowpass filter with switchable characteristics (12 and 24dB per octave)
- A dedicated parametric peaking EQ
- Internal/external sidechain switchable
- Sidechain listening option
- Gate/Expander
- Adjustable threshold between -80 and +6dBFS
- Freely adjustable knee from hard- to soft-knee behaviour up to 1:2 downward expander mode
- Range limiting option (floor)
- Channel link switchable
- Envelope follower section with attack, hold and release control
- Attack timing features console style peak timings as well as two rms modes
- Additional gate pre-open timing option
- Phase alignment
- Analog style stepless signal phase corrections
- Detailed options for adopting phase response curve regarding polarity, frequency center and width
- Additional digital signal delay option
- Phase control switchable to channel 1, 2 or both
- Advanced control
- Detailed output channel routing with six different modes
- Stereo image rotation option visually supported by a goniometer
- Output level control with special mono mode to mix in channel 1 and 2
preFIX for Windows (VST) will be available this May.
More information: Variety Of Sound
