AnsonX10
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2 months ago Oh also, an input gain control would be very helpful.
One thing that would instantly surpass Soothe2 would be if you could find a way to have the spectrum smoothing arbitrarily controllable across the spectrum. Like an EQ that controls the Q of the smoothing. I'm not aware of any plugin that has this, so it's probably difficult.
I love the spectrum analyzer this has, but I personally would get more use out of it if it could be extended to show a larger range of frequencies. e.g. down 5 Hz. I would also ask for the upper limit to be extended too, but that is DEFINITELY in feature-creep territory, so maybe a separate analyzer plugin would make more sense.
robbert-vdh
Been playing with Spectral Compressor and I've been very impressed. It's so cool to have an open source solution like this. I'd like to put a couple features on your radar. It just needs a couple things and (IMO) it could be better than Soothe2 and similar plugins.
First, it needs a way to "smooth" the response frequency-wise, with variable range. At lower window sizes, the highs still have too much precision while the low frequencies have basically no precision because the first "band" is centered well below the usable range. The ability to smooth out the response would allow us to run higher window sizes and get accurate low frequency resonance taming while not smashing the highs into pink noise.
Secondly, it would ideally have a way to manually shape the threshold curve. (without feeding the "sidechain compression" with EQed noise.) My main reason for wanting this is to target an equal loudness contour instead of a flat pink noise slope (or a quadratic curve). Including an equal loudness contour instead of pink noise as a 4th "mode" option would satisfy my desire, regardless of whether or not you include manual threshold shapes.
Third, it might make more sense if the "Hi-Freq Rolloff" was exponential instead of linear (or logarithmic, if you look at it that way). Basically I would want it to affect the highest frequencies far more, and by 3000 Hz or something, the reduction shouldn't be noticeable at all.
Of course, the third request could be satisfied by a solution to the 2nd, if it's robust enough. The main use would be to bandlimit the threshold for a signal that has a hard cutoff at i.e. 18 khz, and treat all the frequencies above that the same.
But again, massive props for this. I'm so happy it exists. The other plugins are also great. Diopser has already far exceeded any other plugins with whom it may or may not share any similarity.