Gulfoss will give it that extra push towards perfection.You also definitely need good quality monitors or headphones and pretty good ears to use this plugin properly because it’s all about clarity. It’s a simple set of controls that allows you to dial in settings quickly, although we found ourselves wanting a little more control over the location and amount of the processing, and of the shape of the Boost.Gullfoss is a very interesting plug-in that could be very useful for both beginners and as well as experienced engineers. Gullfoss… is all about organizing the information in the signal so that your brain finds the result more pleasing. The dancing EQ display gives you a good guide to what is happening as you adjust the controls.For all of its magic, the changes are for the most part suitably subtle if you set the parameters sensibly. Both range from 0-200%, but you won’t generally want to go over - or even near! If the amount of high-frequency lift is slightly more than you need with the Brightness and Boost controls set at neutral, a small tweak of the Brightness (negative) and Boost (positive) controls should get the overall mix tonality back to sounding the way you like it.So, does it work? The meter for Bias shows whether Recover or Tame is currently active, while the Recover and Tame meters are combined in a split meter view, with Recover denoted by the top displayed bar and Tame by the bottom. Positive Bias values favour the Recovery mode at lower signal levels, while negative values lean towards the Tame mode. Range? There are also horizontal input and output level meters at the bottom of the screen.The correct adjustment for the Recover and Tame parameters is often just a matter of listening and dialling in what sounds best. Another compressor? On the basis of Gullfoss we will be very interested to see what Soundtheory come up with next.A latency-free, realtime EQ plug-in with profiles to help spectrally balance different instruments. Now it’s time to tidy it up and smooth its rough edges.Jono Buchanan shows you everything you need to know about the flexible drum device in Logic Pro X.Knee? Recover, Brighten and Boost can then be used to match the tonal balance of the output to the original.

While Gullfoss matches the subjective level of the output to the input, it is designed not to adversely impact the dynamics of the treated signal — indeed, in the case of an over-compressed or over-limited signal, a useful degree of dynamic improvement can be made to transients. Of course, it doesn’t need them, because all of that stuff is done under the hood. But here’s the thing… it’s subtle. If you’re starting out learning to mix, then it’s probably better to get your skills up to scratch before turning to a quick fix like this. These define the boundaries of the frequency range processed by the plugin. Drag either or both of them inwards to target a particular region in the mix, instrument or bus being EQed, and move one past the other to exclude the range between them from processing.Of course, no matter how smart Gullfoss is in terms of objective improvement, there’s no accounting for taste and the particulars of given genre. On first launch, Gullfoss’ total absence of frequency selection and gain controls is mildly unnerving. It removes mud/resonance and adds clarity with a few simple controls. A large graph in the middle of the plug-in shows which parts of the spectrum are being affected and there are five main controls at the top.Essentially, the algorithm intelligently picks out the elements in the audio signal that are dominating or being dominated in each area. Please refresh the page and try again.MusicRadar is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher.