Just wanted to give me thoughts on these after making use of them today.
I've recently finished a song to master stage that was still making me uncomfortable with the vocals. Female, too many s-words to count (my song, so I can't complain about the lyrics) and it seems just too much sibilance to deal with effectively. I've been working on it for months, even re-tracked the vocals trying something different, but essentially, I had accepted I couldn't get it any better.
Until now that is.
I bought both the above last night, on sale, $73 for both, and I decided to re-open the mix and have another crack. After a fair bit of trial and a number of mix saves, I hit some sweet settings that have blown me away.
The Triple D doesn't give you much to play with. Three main controls for boxiness, harshness and d-essing. I found the de-box of not much use, in this case, but the de-harsh and de-ess really cut the nasty stuff, but it did leave the track a little middy.
So then I put the Parallel Particles after it. Again, not many controls to play with. Essentially the plug does not raise eq band levels like an eq does, but uses different parts of the spectrum to synth up high and lows, effectively creating frequencies that were not there before, or so the blurb goes.
But it worked. And not just well, but incredibly well. The sibilance and harshness that was annoying me, is gone, but in it's place, the air and upper mids that I was chasing. It was recorded with a Rode K2 valve mic, so I have the bottoms, and my vox had plenty of bottom end warmth and growl, but now, crystal clear highs without the cringe factor.
Highly recommended. Think they will get a lot of use here.
cheers. Dave.