Softube Harmonics
Applying distortion to any sound can be a tricky business, with edge and toughness often coming at the expense of definition and clarity. Softube reckon that their new plugin, Harmonics, “with its never-beforeheard approach to dynamics in distortion, is the answer”.
Harmonics features five separate component-modelled distortion processors – Solid State, Transformer, Master (for bus processing), Tube and Modern – and employs Softube’s new Dynamic Transient Control technology, which are in place to allow “the dynamics and detail to be preserved and enhanced even after heavy distortion is applied”.
The DTC knob keeps the process intuitive, ranging from ‘More Dynamics’ through one half of its travel to ‘More Control’ through the other. The Drive and Character controls that you find alongside it boost the input and brighten/darken the sound, and variable-slope High and Low Cut filters can be applied at the output.
Harmonics is available to buy for Mac and PC from the Softube website. It costs $149.
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