HoRNet Releases SpectraDuck

HoRNet Plugins has released SpectraDuck,  a sidechain ducker that they say looks at the spectrum  not just the loudness. Here's the details in their own words...

Your vocal sits perfectly. Your kick hits hard. Your bass is weighty. Then you bring in the music bed -- and everything disappears behind it. You reach for a traditional sidechain compressor, but it pulls down everything. The low end thins out. The energy drops. The mix loses its glue.

You spend 20 minutes dialing in crossover frequencies, attack times, and ratios -- just to get the kick to poke through the bass. Or you give up and let the two fight for space in the low end.

The truth is: traditional duckers are blunt instruments. They see loudness, not frequency. They cut everything equally -- even the parts of your signal that weren't causing any problem

SpectraDuck is a sidechain ducker that looks at the spectrum -- not just the loudness. When your kick hits at 60 Hz, SpectraDuck pulls down only around 60 Hz on the channel you're ducking. The rest of the signal passes through untouched.

The result is ducking that follows the natural masking of your signal: where there's conflict, it cuts. Where there isn't, it leaves things alone. No crossovers. No fixed bands. No phase issues between bands.

And you don't need to set any of that up. SpectraDuck detects the spectral profile of your sidechain and automatically figures out where the conflict lives.

Pricing and Availability:

On offer at €19.99 (regular price: €29.99)

More information:

• SpectraDuck

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