soothe2 Tames Harshness, Sibilance and Muddiness

soothe2 is an excellent plugin; I’ve used the original soothe plugin for years and soothe2 is a major upgrade. Intelligent and transparent – it tames harshness, sibilance and muddiness. It’s much better than a traditional de-esser.

A message from its creators:

soothe2 has been redesigned from the ground up. It will feature a fully revised algorithm, along with a number of new features:
– Completely overhauled processing algorithm
– Full frequency range operation
– Attack and release speed adjustments
– Two different processing modes for different uses
– Full mid/side processing
– Lower latency
– Lower CPU load all-together, along with an even lighter Eco quality setting
– Quality settings can be adjusted separately for offline rendering
– Rewritten graphics rendering to offload most of the GUI drawing to the GPU for improved FPS even on older machines
– Sidechain input

soothe2 has been in the works for a long time, the development starting soon after the release of the original plug-in. Since the original soothe, we’ve redesigned and reimplemented our whole codebase for better performance and improved maintainability. For soothe2 we’ve evaluated a lot of excellent ideas and feedback received from the users of soothe. A lot of the ideas have made it into to product. We’re grateful for all the feedback and support we’ve received over these couple of years: thank you!

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