Waves OneKnob Pumpe

Accusonus ERA
Noise Remover £47
A quick little gadget that does away
with electrical noise, hum, and
background noise of basically all
forms using its proprietary tech, ERA
Noise Remover seems to do the
impossible in solving most common
audio problems with just a couple of
controls. The main knob to head to
is the Processing one (yeah, that’s
right, the big one), which cleverly
separates the wanted and unwanted
sounds, and makes a damn good go
of doing so. There are also emphasis
controls to weight the reduction.
Hovering the Processing knob at
around 60% is usually plenty of
reduction, but cranking it up – and
playing with the output gain – can be
necessary for more heavily soiled
audio material. Yes, there aren’t
many settings on ERA Noise
Remover, but what it does is almost
always dependable, and better than
many other de-noisers. We really
don’t know how it does it, but
hearing is believing. If you’ve got
hum, noise and hiss that’s beyond
reproach, you’ll probably need to get
something a bit more tweakable, but
that’s a rare circumstance for most
people. Make sure to check out the
rest of the ERA suite, focusing on
Plosives, Esses, Reverb, Clipping
and Voice Levelling.
accusonus.com
VERDICT 9.4
Waves OneKnob
Pumper $49
Built for ‘those’ throbbing, ducking
sidechain pumping effects, OneKnob
Pumper lives up to its name in that a
single control defines the amount of
processing applied. This control is
flanked by Rate and Offset selectors
– there’s 1/1-1/32 for the Rate,
One- and
two-knob plugins
Whether it’s one knob to rule them all, or just an
impressively skant set of controls, we test out some of
the plugin world’s more minimalist offerings
Soundtoys Devil-Loc $79
Actually an emulation of Shure’s Level Loc when pushed
to its extremes, Devil-Loc works great at bringing out the
low-level sounds in recorded material – especially drums.
Just inserting Devil-Loc onto a track is enough to bring out
the nuances of a performance and then start pushing them
to extremes, adding loads of character to proceedings.
Give it a swizz on drums with a nice room sound to start
with, and then move onto wind instruments and even
pianos, which have a lot of ‘incidental’ sounds to them
such as hammer noise, breath noise and so on.
When you’re done a-levellin’ by bringing the bottom parts
upward, push up the Crunch control to start doing the
opposite – bringing the tops down to create extreme
distortion. It’s a two-knob plugin, but two knobs are all you
really need to add new life to recorded parts.
soundtoys.com
VERDICT 9.1
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