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Great plugs. I use the eq and dynamics all the time. All the other of the original Oxford six pack (eq, dynamics, limiter, transmod, reverb, inflator) made by Paul Frindle at Sony are great too.

The later Sonnox ones like Suppressor, Envolution, and the Restore bundle are good but not in the ball park of being simple and extremely powerful like the originals.

The Drum Gate, Dynamic EQ, and Voca are extremely cool. I need to pick up the Dynamic EQ and Voca

Claro uses way too much cpu compared to two instances of the Oxford eq or you know… fabfilter pro q3.

Who cares about lossy codecs?

Dan

I'm tempted to get the Oxford Dynamics. I really wasn't thinking about getting another digital compressor, but this sounds interesting, responsive is what I would say.

But already having Pro-C and Kotelnikov, I wonder what would the Oxford add. Anyway, going to try it for a few days.

Like most, I have an unreasonably big plugin collection built up over the years.

But there’s something a bit special about the Sonnox EQ and Dynamics.

There’s something of a very fine resolution and beautiful clarity to their sound - other plug-ins I have are great too but they never quite match this certain quality I find very appealing in the Sonnox EQ and Dynamics - hard to put a finger on it - as I say it’s a finesse and sonic clarity I personally find very appealing.

And it's even better than 75%, they have additional stacking discounts for each additional plug. Bastards!

Exactly. And I'm trying Oxford Limiter on a particular problem track and, at least for this track, it is way cleaner than anything else I was using before. I don't know, maybe it was user error or something but this thing worked very, very nicely for this track.

A dynamic multi effect that only picks one process at a time to not modulate the modulation. Kotelnikov is cleanest thing around, even hugging the material better than the glue does at 16x over sampling. Oxford is a multi effect. Lookahead smooths the attack out and depends on sample rate, like a more aggressive Renaissance Compressor. It doesn’t really alias and lookahead is never too long (powair, faraday, many compressors that can have better look ahead) or has forced hold (metric halo channel strip except for mio which still has a cheeseball linear release like ReaComp, the Harrison channel strip comps) and is less dark than renaissance compressor. At 44.1 kHz, it only compresses up to 3 kHz because the minimum attack time (not rate. It has a short look ahead so the compressor must reduce gain for at least length of the look ahead to not release prematurely without a hold. Hold on the compressor is merely a release scaler) is longer than those frequencies so it acts like a smooth fader ride to them. This can tonally change the sound and of course it hugs the signal better at higher sample rates and can compress higher ones because the lookahead time scales with sample rate.

Oxford dynamic eq? Also clean but less surgical because it uses the type 3, ssl g / neve like curves from the Oxford eq. Forces a short look ahead unlike Nova GE, where that is optional. Nova GE also has the surgical curves.

Nova GE musical mode default has broad constant eq curves in static filters and neve type q decreasing with gain in dynamic. The there’s the surgical mode.

I don’t think it’s necessary but the workflow is faster than nova but nova is more precise and can do more and I think is the better plug. No dynamic shelves in Oxford dynamic eq! Honestly it is the second best dynamic eq after nova and both feel cleaner to me than fabfilter and don’t have the forced hold that fabfilter, Kirchhoff, and others have. Weiss eq1 has a hold too but also has a look ahead that’s stupidly turned off in the softube by default. I stopped using the Weiss stuff after softube automatically muted the processing when no audio was going through it, it gates the plugin and noise, including 24-bit dither and I don’t want the audio detector to lag and wake up from a. Sudden event when using it as a dynamics processor! I guarantee that gate is not nearly as responsive as the DS1 or EQ1 dynamics (with look ahead on!)because it’s in the EQ MP too!

I’m guessing these eqs have the holds and long look heads because their outdated or inferior filter structure cannot be modulated or they do not have ramped parameters to prevent zipper noise.

Anyways I think the Oxford dynamic eq is great unlike the Claro which is still stupid cpu heavy. The regular eq is a classic with a dated gui that needs to scale up. It’s my favorite no latency eq though with decramped filters.

Used this last night and it's awesome. Actually, in another thread I was asking how people deal with the current challenges in converting to WAV files and I think in the back of my mind I was thinking of ListenHub but couldn't remember it.

It is super cool. I tested a bunch of Sonnox stuff last night but ListenHub is an instant buy for me. (A bit of a process to set up. Not hard, just a lot of steps... worth it.)

Any idea how this compares to ADPTR Metric AB?

It's a totally different thing. What it does is allow you to take the audio from your computer and route it through their plug-in. So anything you stream or from your desktop or anything at all can be matched with what you have in your DAW. And you can add plug-ins as well so you can put room corrections software on there.

It has some very rudimentary visuals and stuff but not nearly the level of metering as AB.

I was using both last night and they made quite a pair.

Tried Oxford Dynamics. It's really good.