SubTight

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@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Dynamics: Pop2, Pressure5, Dynamics, Pop, DigitalBlack, Logical4, VariMu, Butter
 
 Effects: GalacticVibe, Fracture2, Dubly, Pafnuty2, PitchNasty, GuitarConditioner, Aura, TremoSquare, Tremolo, GlitchShifter, Gringer, Exciter, Energy2, Energy, Facet, Fracture, PowerSag2, PowerSag, Preponderant, Nikola
 
-Filter: Baxandall2, Capacitor2, Pear, CStrip2, Weight, Isolator2, Holt2, Holt, ToneSlant, AverMatrix, Average, MackEQ, Baxandall, Hull, EQ, Capacitor, Isolator, TapeFat, ResEQ, Lowpass2, Highpass2, Distance2, Distance, Lowpass, Highpass
+Filter: Baxandall2, Capacitor2, Pear, SubTight, CStrip2, Weight, Isolator2, Holt2, Holt, ToneSlant, AverMatrix, Average, MackEQ, Baxandall, Hull, EQ, Capacitor, Isolator, TapeFat, ResEQ, Lowpass2, Highpass2, Distance2, Distance, Lowpass, Highpass
 
 Lo-Fi: Pockey2, Flutter, CrunchyGrooveWear, GrooveWear, Pockey, DeRez2, BitGlitter, DeRez, ChromeOxide, Cojones, Vibrato, Bite, Deckwrecka, DustBunny
 
@@ -3614,6 +3614,20 @@ SubsOnly does the same thing for subsonic bass. It sounds a little like a house
 
 Lastly, these are calibrated (in SlewOnly quite literally: pink noise will be about the same amplitude with or without it, though the tone will be way different) so that you can switch them in and out, and expect roughly the same loudnesses. It’s okay if SubsOnly is louder for fullbodied bass: with that, it’s not so much about level-matching, it’s about getting your sound (at whatever desired loudness) and then having the bass still make sense through SubsOnly. If you’re madly overloading it, there won’t be groove, just a lot of thunder and noise, at elevated levels. These go on at the end of your master buss, so you can hear what your 2-buss chain did to the sound. Especially if you try and go for ‘commercially loud’ volumes, sanity checking with these tools can be a real silver bullet.
 
+############ SubTight uses a variation on the Creature algorithm to tighten sub-lows.
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+So here's another interesting little tool that's not been seen before.
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+Creature has a special mode where you can set the dry/wet to 'inverse', cancelling out what the algorithm produces. It's a soft slew clipper, not a normal algorithm or a simple filter, so what it cancels isn't easily controllable. However, for the most part it darkens and distorts the sound, and then when you stack up multiple poles of it, it becomes uncontrollable, particularly as frequency drops.
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+So, in theory, you could use it as an increasingly steep lowpass… and subtract it from dry, to make something that acts like a highpass.
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+What happens when you use a distorted lowpass to take out bass?  It's not able to soak up all the lows, as if it was a simple filter. What happens when multiple stages of it cause the deepest bass to go unstable and wild? That part cancels first, or ends up overcanceling and making a sort of 'node' in the midbass that's totally cancelled, while distorted sub-bass gets through inverted.
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+All right. That said, what if you just keep the number of stages in check, and only bring in enough of it to cancel out the super lows, or simply cut them back a little? That would be a sub-bass conditioner with the following qualities: it'll give you an increasingly steep cutoff, it'll emphasize dynamics and impact, and it will resist totally removing bass content in favor of reshaping it, tightening it, highlighting impact and punch.
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+That's why this plugin is called SubTight. It's not exactly a filter, much less a sharp and accurate filter. It's optimized so that you can hear where bass really starts to cancel out, and the idea is you can go up to that point, and then pull back. To do a clean steep low cut, use something else. This is a subs conditioner, that'll give a different foundation on things.
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 ############ Surge is a compressor for accentuating beats and pulses.
 
 What is ‘ballistics’ when it comes to audio gear? It’s the way the gear handles dynamics coming in. It’s the swing of a VU meter that can tell you what your music feels like.

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@@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ StereoEnsemble is a sort of hyperchorus blast from the past.
 StereoFX is an aggressive stereo widener.
 StudioTan is all the 'non-dither' dithers, up to date and convenient.
 SubsOnly is a mix check plugin that shows you only the extreme lows.
+SubTight uses a variation on the Creature algorithm to tighten sub-lows.
 Surge is a compressor for accentuating beats and pulses.
 SurgeTide is a surge and flow dynamics plugin.
 Sweeten is where you can find super-clean second harmonic.