Improve your studio acoustics: How to deal with room modes
Room modes distort the acoustics of both your control room and your recording room, especially in the low frequency range. Here's how to deal with them.
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proximity:EQ
Ingenious acoustic zoom
Frequency-selective de-reverberation tool for controlling perceived distance. Reduce room sound or bring sources closer without affecting the full spectrum.
New possibilites for positioning sound.
More freedom in postproduction
Closer to the source
Often enough when interviewing, the recording microphone got placed too far from the source; or the grand piano turns out muddy because too much reverb was recorded. In these situations, proximity:EQ lets you draw the voice significantly closer and give the muddy piano a crisper sound in postproduction.
Lowering the spatial components increases the direct sound, putting the sound source front and center. Frequency-selective dereverberation allows you to precisely separate direct from indirect components of the signal.
Lowering the spatial components increases the direct sound, putting the sound source front and center. Frequency-selective dereverberation allows you to precisely separate direct from indirect components of the signal.
Sonic depth
Add space to the mix
Of course it is also possible that the microphones ended up getting too close to the sound source. Your mix then lacks spaciousness. proximity:EQ seamlessly distances the sound source without affecting its original character. This makes your entire mix more transparent and opens new ways of creating sonic depth.
By adapting the proximity-feature, you can emphasize the natural spaciousness of the recording and thus freely adjust the distance from the sound source. You can also automatically create an acoustic fade-out – an atmospheric ambience effect particularly convenient for the post-production of films.
By adapting the proximity-feature, you can emphasize the natural spaciousness of the recording and thus freely adjust the distance from the sound source. You can also automatically create an acoustic fade-out – an atmospheric ambience effect particularly convenient for the post-production of films.
Room resonances
Optimal room acoustics at the touch of a button
Even when you meticulously plan a setup and perfectly position the microphones – the acoustics of a given room simply are what they are. The sophisticated technology of proximity:EQ opens entirely new possibilities for amending detrimental room modes in post-production while leaving the direct sound entirely untouched.
The plug-in separates the direct sound and the reverb of a recording. With the help of frequency-selective adjustments, proximity:EQ even lets you edit undesired room resonances distinctly from the natural reverb of a recording.
The plug-in separates the direct sound and the reverb of a recording. With the help of frequency-selective adjustments, proximity:EQ even lets you edit undesired room resonances distinctly from the natural reverb of a recording.
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Voices of the industry
Testimonials
“With the proximity:EQ+ I can fine tune out a single strange room resonance and still retain the overall character of the sound.”
– Tim Palmer
“proximity:EQ+ has brought a magic to the ambience of my drum tracks I haven’t heard anywhere before!”
– Paul Godfrey
“proximity:EQ+ acts like a pretty interesting spatial EQ, more flexible than the conventional psychoacoustic roll off.”
– Cristian Vogel
Features, specs & changelog
The core of your sound
- Frequency-selective dereverberation
- Direct/reverberant signal separation
- Distance adjustments from the sound source
- Natural room ambience enhancement
- Isolate and remove room modes without altering the direct signal
- 8-band linear-phase EQ
- Three EQ bands with independent Proximity control
Plug-in Specifications
- plug-in formats (Mac)
- AU, VST2 (Universal Binary), AAX
- plug-in formats (Windows)
- VST2 (32/64 bit), VST3, AAX
- supported sample rates
- 44.1 kHz to 192 kHz
- authorization
- machine-based or iLok (see FAQ)
- Apple Silicon support
- Native (except AAX)
- Latest version
- 1.0.6
System Requirements
- PC
- Windows 7+
- Mac
- OS X 10.7
- RAM
- at least 4 GB (recommended)
- CPU
- at least intel DualCore i5 (recommended), M1
1.0.6
- added support for macOS 13
- fixed blind:flug UI error
1.0.5
- added native support for Apple M1 hardware
- various performance enhancements
1.0.4
- removed PACE iLok License Manager dependency for non-iLok licenses
1.0.0
- initial release