Brainworx bx_refinement
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Lose harshness without destroying your mix.
The Brainworx bx_refinement plug-in for UAD-2 and Apollo tastefully removes the harsh, hard edges of your tracks without dramatically altering the character and tone of your source material.
An exceptional mastering tool that also features M/S (Mid/Side) processing, the Brainworx bx_refinement imparts a tube-like analog smoothness and is a boon for mix engineers looking to tame unpleasant digital hardness on individual tracks.Now You Can:
Bring the sound of a tube-like analog mastering chain to your UAD-2 and Apollo-equipped workstations
Easily soften high frequency harshness in mixes and masters
Inject saturation and presence to subtly enhance your tracks
Use the Solo feature to hear exactly what you’re removing from the recording
Customer Reviews
s. Pfeiffer
June 3, 2020
Haven’t needed it on a mix yet, but...
I know this has been billed as a mastering tool, but haven’t had to tame any overly harsh mixes yet. However, it has bailed me out of two instances more than once. DI recorded acoustic...
Read Mores. Pfeiffer
June 3, 2020
Haven’t needed it on a mix yet, but...
I know this has been billed as a mastering tool, but haven’t had to tame any overly harsh mixes yet. However, it has bailed me out of two instances more than once. DI recorded acoustic...
Read Mores. Pfeiffer
June 3, 2020
Haven’t needed it on a mix yet, but...
I know this has been billed as a mastering tool, but haven’t had to tame any overly harsh mixes yet. However, it has bailed me out of two instances more than once. DI recorded acoustic...
Read Mores. Pfeiffer
June 3, 2020
Haven’t needed it on a mix yet, but...
I know this has been billed as a mastering tool, but haven’t had to tame any overly harsh mixes yet. However, it has bailed me out of two instances more than once. DI recorded acoustic...
Read Mores. Pfeiffer
June 3, 2020
Haven’t needed it on a mix yet, but...
I know this has been billed as a mastering tool, but haven’t had to tame any overly harsh mixes yet. However, it has bailed me out of two instances more than once. DI recorded acoustic...
Read MoreF. Carcone
May 3, 2020
One trick pony at its best.
One of my favorites plugins, life saver and ear pleasing tool, so much more important than any other fancy EQ/comp. I don't car if at the end it's just a simple process, it just works.
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Key Features
Reduces harshness and breathes life into recordings
Fixed, dynamic or modulation based damping of unwanted frequencies
Mid/Side processing
Soft & hard damping provide second order filtering and higher order filtering respectively
Solo filter allows to hear just what you’re removing from the recording
Subtle saturation and presence controls enhance the material without changing its character
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Customer Reviews
Brainworx bx_refinement
s. Pfeiffer
Haven’t needed it on a mix yet, but...
I know this has been billed as a mastering tool, but haven’t had to tame any overly harsh mixes yet. However, it has bailed me out of two instances more than once. DI recorded acoustic guitar parts, as well as a boat load of ancient DAT transfers. It paid for itself
On the latter project in a few hours.
Very unique plug....s. Pfeiffer
Haven’t needed it on a mix yet, but...
I know this has been billed as a mastering tool, but haven’t had to tame any overly harsh mixes yet. However, it has bailed me out of two instances more than once. DI recorded acoustic guitar parts, as well as a boat load of ancient DAT transfers. It paid for itself
On the latter project in a few hours.
Very unique plug....s. Pfeiffer
Haven’t needed it on a mix yet, but...
I know this has been billed as a mastering tool, but haven’t had to tame any overly harsh mixes yet. However, it has bailed me out of two instances more than once. DI recorded acoustic guitar parts, as well as a boat load of ancient DAT transfers. It paid for itself
On the latter project in a few hours.
Very unique plug....s. Pfeiffer
Haven’t needed it on a mix yet, but...
I know this has been billed as a mastering tool, but haven’t had to tame any overly harsh mixes yet. However, it has bailed me out of two instances more than once. DI recorded acoustic guitar parts, as well as a boat load of ancient DAT transfers. It paid for itself
On the latter project in a few hours.
Very unique plug....s. Pfeiffer
Haven’t needed it on a mix yet, but...
I know this has been billed as a mastering tool, but haven’t had to tame any overly harsh mixes yet. However, it has bailed me out of two instances more than once. DI recorded acoustic guitar parts, as well as a boat load of ancient DAT transfers. It paid for itself
On the latter project in a few hours.
Very unique plug....F. Carcone
One trick pony at its best.
One of my favorites plugins, life saver and ear pleasing tool, so much more important than any other fancy EQ/comp. I don't car if at the end it's just a simple process, it just works.
D. Ho
Wow!
What would take me hours of experimenting, this plug-in can do in minutes!
p. albert
Brainwors bx refinement
Très efficace pour adoucir le son
K. Savchenko
Best Brainworx bx_refinement
I use it in live sound, it give me amazing vocals, bright and nice.
J. Ricketts
Great Plug In
Gets the Hats to sit in the Mix with Colour...
A. Heinzelmann
Amazing Plugin
Use the bx_refinement in my mastering chain erverytime and i can reduce harshness while improving the transients. It´s amazing. I think, i can´t live without it anymore.
s. azevedo
Saves me Time and like what it does
If I have a track that sounds a little harsh bx_refinement works really well, and is much quicker than piddling around with eq's and de essers.
c. schwindeman
BX-reinement
Wonderful tool it smoothed out my always over bright drum bus mixes and with the added 1 db comp made them sit better, a must have thanks Brainworx
Y. Caldas
My Special Sauce
This plugin works wonders for me, both when used while mixing and mastering. though I do with I could use it on the sides only the mid only function has worked wonders for mastering high hat heavy material!
S. Grimm
I use it more often than expected
I bought this plugin to fix a specific drum mix, but it turned out that I use it on a regular basis on nearly every project now. I like it's simplicity and reliablity. Althought you have to be careful of not softening the material too much , you can reduce harshness on every kind of material in a matter of seconds, especially on drums. For me, it it much more effective and unharmful than a regular eq for this purpose.
S. Grimm
Nice tool, I use it more often than I thought I would
I bought this plugin to fix a specific drum mix, but it turned out that I use it on a regular basis on nearly every project now. I like it's simplicity and reliablity. Althought you have to be careful of not softening the material too much , you can reduce harshness on every kind of material in a matter of seconds, especially on drums. For me, it it much more effective and unharmful than a regular eq for this purpose.
B. Luyben
Bring the high end there and alive
Magic and hard to do it wrong. You hear that sweet spot back down a bit and it will sit perfect in the mix keeps it's presence and get rid of harshness. I love the sync feature on intensive high end parts like said before tambourine, shaker or hihat. It's a tool but more then that it's great for making parts work. I think it's kinda funky
D. Pierce
Incredible
It’s amazing how it can clean up your high frequencies while pushing them forward in your mix, while also modulating the frequency to your liking. Dope!
G. Eriksson
Great "Polishing tool"...
Great way to get control over any harshness or frequencies that are jumping out. If used carefully it works great!
K. Prior
Smoove
No need to eq.
Great