Voxengo Voxformer

Oh my gosh!  This is amazing.  I have been recording in my home studio for over 8 years and I have always gotten a hollow, narrow, non-professional sound, no matter how hard I tried.  I use good (mid-grade) pro-audio equipment, a quality mic, and decent sounding instruments, however I could never get that professional glaze.  I am a female vocalist, and due to the natural timbre of my voice, combined with my soprano range, my vocals always seemed to sound hoow, with too much reverb and echo (and nor because I added that either).  I bought the voxformer, harmoniEQ, varisaturator, and polysquasher, and downloaded some of the free applications as well.  The difference is remarkable.  I just bought these yesterday- I installed them and worked with them til about midnight last night, then set the CD to burn while I slept.  This morning, I took a listen and WOW.  It sounds like it was done in a professional studio.  Most of that came from the voxformer and harmoniEQ.  Now, I will clean up the little things and add the final gloss with the varisaturator and the polysquasher.  All I can say is "thank you".  After many dead end searches, I finally found the products that work.

A.  Black

I've been eyeing Voxformer for a while and finally decided to buy it.  After using it on two mixes, I believe it is THE ideal channel strip for a digital setup.

Here's why:

1.  The EQ comes with 5 bands so you have less decision fatigue, and you can bandpass preview the spectrum using ctrl/cmd+click to really determine where you want to add/subtract energy.  There is also no cramping in the higher frequencies when using peaking filters.

2.  The compressor crossover function allows for easy management of the dynamics of certain instruments' low end and high end/midrange, separately.

3.  The presence function can really make the vocals sit just right, either by increasing the high end or (and I didn't know this was possible) by making it warmer.

4.  The preview/delta solo available for the de-esser (and the other functions have it too).

5.  It has a gate.  It works.

6.  Voxengo presets in general work out of the box, and if not they're a really good starting point.

7.  The saturation sounds amazing.

8.  Super low CPU usage!  Most of the popular channel strips (BX consoles, Waves SSL EV2, etc) aren't nearly as CPU efficient.

9.  THE fastest workflow.  Faster than individual EQs and compressors on tracks, and faster than "analog modeled" channel strips, even without using presets.

Would heartily recommend this.  I was surprised at being able to reach -8 LUFS in the mixing stage without any limiting, with the widest, clearest sound I've been able to get so far.  I attribute that purely to the workflow and ease of use of Voxformer.

tonstwo

Dear Aleksey, Our company Online-mastering.com is equipped with the best in analog and digital audio gear.  Your plug-ins are a wonderful addtion to our arsenal of tools.  They are well engineered and what's more important - They sound very good.  A lot of software with ten times the price will sometimes be surpassed by your cool developments.  Good work.  Thanks Voxengo!

Alex Zwarg, Mastering Engineer, Online-mastering