Modules: Loudness

Gain

Really, this is just a simple gain function. Try it with a selected frequency range, as determined by the Start and Stop frequency slider — and randomize this fellow with an LFO!

Exaggerator

With its single knob, the Exaggerator is a deceptively simple-looking module. However, the results are anything but standard! Exaggerator applies an exponential function to magnitudes, emphasizing or suppressing peaks. The Intensity knob is bipolar, with no effect when set to the 12 o’clock position. If a positive setting is dialed in, the higher the amplitude of the incoming signal the more it will be amplified. If a negative setting is selected, the higher the amplitude of the incoming signal the more it will be suppressed.

Denoiser

This effect applies the standard de-noising formula. SpectrumWorx’s algorithm uses the side channel input as a noise footprint, or a sum of main and side channel. The main channel will be attenuated when the side channel contains noise (in the latter case). The Amount knob controls the intensity of the de-noising algorithm.

Quiet Boost

This module boosts low gain components. It amplifies signal below the desired Threshold, working as a sort of expander in the time domain. The Ratio of expansion can be selected, and there’s a Noise threshold control — the module won’t boost anything below this threshold, because we don’t want to boost all the noise!

Freqnamics

Freqnamics provides dynamics processing in the frequency domain, just like the Quiet Boost module described above, except this one compresses rather than expands. Freqnamics acts as both a limiter and a noise gate. Use the Limiter knob to set the threshold of the hard limiter, and the Noise gate knob to set the threshold of the noise gate.