Brainworx bx_refinement
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Brainworx bx_refinement
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U. Bollhalder
***A True Discovery***
This plugin is simply amazing. Using it on a lot of orchestral sample libraries, strings, percussion and the mixbus as well, this tool is great for reducing harshness and edginess that is inherent in a lot of sample libraries. It does this using M/S-processing and adding of harmonic distortion which you could do yourself manually but this is just so handy and sounds pretty awesome. Loving it! A true discovery!
T. Prilesky
Very useful!
Amazing for smoothing out overheads, cymbals, room mics, guitars, pretty much anything that needs to sound less harsh or congested. I almost always use this on overheads, as it opens them up significantly. Not for everything, but of benefit to much.
You can get this plugin also directly from Plugin Alliance. Given that they have sales more frequently than UAD, it's worth shopping around. Sometimes I wish I had this plugin natively so I could use it away from the studio.
N. Warnaar
Hearing is believing
A great tool for that professional touch in a production. It gives me more listening pleasure.
G. Goodwin III
Very Useful on Drum Overhead Bus
I tried this on several sources. It works well on anything, but I find it particularly useful on acoustic drum sets stereo overhead mics. If there is harshness there, this will take it out. The cymbals will be just as loud (fortunately or unfortunately - as the case may be) but they won't be nearly as irritating. For that alone I give this 5 stars. I did not like it on the whole drum bus nor on the mix. But that's me. You may love using it like that. I am glad I bought it.
ł. kalinowski
smooth and invisible
Great tool for fast , smooth and mostly invisible rid off unwanted hi frequency. Dynamic option is great its better than de-esser , it has more control and i just using it everywhere lightly but its doing it work perfectly! great buy!
e. burns
The Missing Link to taming harsh and fast transients
drop it on any submix drums, guitars percussion and rid your mix of any spiky nastiness
and then on the master bus for sheen its the perfect complement to the The Studer A800 and Ampex ATR-102 plugins
if funds are tight this and the uad oxide Oxide Tape Recorder Plug-In make a great Team
Absolutely love this plugin
it does what you hope it can do "Nice"
r. infante romero
Un Plugin interesante
Al principio estaba indeciso, pero use la demo y vi su potencial. Imprescindible para voces!!
R. Jasman Jr
Great results on drum bus
I purchased this specifically to get a quick and easy way to improve my drum mixes. It delivered big time. Instant subtle improvements in the smoothness of the drum tones. I'm getting something that EQ and tape saturation comes close to, but not as quickly. Highly recommended.
S. Solomon
Voice Bus and Master Bus
I use it on the Chorus buss quite generously to suppress harshness around 3.5k . On the master buss I use it in a controlled way to avoid being too dramatic. The bx_refinement is a beautifully crafted saturator I would say that can be used with extreme or subtle settings or anyway in between to slash out the eardrum piercing frequencies. Thank you UAD for such an amazing plugin !
G. Kovács
Great plugin for balancing high frequencies
Great plugin for balancing high frequencies, it has a fix place now in my mastering chain as well.
D. Nakonechny
Unbelievable.... I mean wow....
I've been a UAD fanatic for a long time now and on a regular basis check out their current and newer releases. This is one plugin I never imagined myself owning...but it is a plugin that I use exclusively on everyone of my mixes no matter what. It seems to be the final touch that glues my entire mix together without robbing any clarity or low end. Absolutely incredible and I couldn't imagine mixing without now.
.
Five Stars - Would Use Again
Thanks to bx_refinement, I can now crank up my old Smashing Pumpkins album without worrying about bleeding ear drums.
S. Riggi
Suggestion
Using for mastering you suggest to put it last on the chain ? before Limiter?
M. Spaans
tame your digital mixes.
Love the brainworx plug-ins! I use it to remove the digital etch of my 'in the box' productions. It is very useful to tame the high frequencies on (drum)busses and the master.
g. steenbergen
Great on aggressive guitar
I use this one a lot when mixing live music. I love this one to tame aggressive sounding guitars. This works 1000 times better than just an eq.
.
Must have
Great for removing subtle harshness in electronic music. I use it mostly during mastering, pre compression. Only possible complaint is that sometimes it can be easy for me to abuse this plugin & accidentally take out too much high frequency content of my mix... Probably user error on my part. Great plug in, essential for digitally produced tracks!
Y. Frol
Worth every penny spent
I have bought this plugin and applied it to already nicely sounding mixed track and it was a miracle what it did.
Does what is says - RECOMMENDED!!!
N. Murphy O'Brien
Really amazing plug
Thoroughly impressed with this plug in, i've found that using it a little over the course of your entire mix can really make it sound warm, full, but still with all the brilliance of the high end.
I'd recommend Refinement to anybody who wants to have a less harsh mix, tracks, vocals, anything you put this baby on
S. Robbins
Smoothing and enhancing stereo
Very nice tool for removing harshness from mixes.......works well in both constant and dynamic modes......it seems to "find" the harshness upper midrange frequencies on its own.
Also as an unexpected [to me] added plus, it gives a high frequency enhancement that WIDENS the stereo image of a mix.
Nice mastering tool.
O. Del Pinal
Refinement plug
Your BX refinement is a life saver. My guitar and amp have great presence and sometimes a bit to much treble (Demeter Tga 3 played through a Eric Clapton srat.This plug tames the edge without mudding up. Thanks.