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Areas for Improvement
There are six distinct areas that DETROUBLER focuses on. The plugin uses psychoacoustic principles to make changes, improving the sound of frequency bands and their corresponding masking frequencies according to the Bark Scale.
Boomy: Excessive low-frequency resonance, often in the 100-250 Hz range, making the sound overpowering or lacking clarity.
Boxy: A hollow or resonant sound, usually due to excessive energy around 150-25 Hz, making instruments (especially drums and vocals) sound like they’re playing in a small box.
Muddy: Lack of clarity due to overlapping frequencies in the 200-500 Hz region, often causing instruments to blend indistinctly.
Honky: A nasal, resonant midrange quality, typically around 500-1500 Hz, making vocals or instruments sound somewhat brassy.
Harsh: Overly aggressive or piercing high-mid frequencies, often in the 2-6 kHz range, causing listener fatigue.
Sizzle: Excessive, uncontrolled high-frequency energy in the 8-12 kHz range, sometimes making cymbals or vocals sound overly bright or artificial.
Visual Feedback & Comparison
DETROUBLER is built on vector graphics with a resizable interface. A live spectrum is displayed at the top, to help you identify problematic areas of your sound and show exactly what’s happening to the signal as it travels through the plugin in real time. This allows for accurate monitoring at every step of the chain. For those who like to experiment, contrast different processing chains with AB comparison and copy / paste. Use the undo / redo buttons to revert any changes.
Presets
DETROUBLER includes a huge number of factory presets, covering everything from subtle surgical correction, to more broad-strokes transformations. Use the provided parameters as starting points to clean-up any type of audio, bringing the best out of your sounds and productions.
W. A. Production are real-life producers making creative plugins to help you achieve studio quality processing quickly and easily. Enjoy!
What’s the Difference Between Deres and Detroubler?
Deres is a resonance-cleaning tool specifically designed for midrange clarity. Removing the most dominant resonance in the midrange typically results in a significant clarity boost in a track or individual sound. It helps eliminate the most problematic resonance, making the mix clearer and more refined.
Detroubler
Detroubler, on the other hand, is a completely different type of plugin. It is based on psychoacoustic research and works by reducing frequencies scientifically identified as problematic or fatiguing to human hearing. Unlike Deres, it does not clean resonances. Instead, it softens and smooths out problematic frequency areas that mask other details in a sound, making it more pleasant and easier for the human ear to listen as a result, the mix is more defined.
The dedicated Listen button should be the first step in your journey, letting you clearly hear the aspects of your audio that need fixing. As you increase the main Detrouble knob, you’ll hear what the plugin begins to capture, in real time. Then switch off the Listen mode to hear those changes in context.
The glowing orbs surrounding the main Detrouble knob function as clickable meters for each area of frequencies. Enable or disable processing in each area by clicking. The brighter the orbs, the greater the processing. If a certain orb shows minimal activity, your audio is already in great shape and no gain reduction needs to be applied by the plugin.
VST, VST3, AU, AAX, both Intel and Apple Silicon-based CPUs as well as Native AAX format.
