I can’t believe that Toontrack seriously put this on the market. We have been playing around with it for a while now and the more we tested it, the more angry we got because this – in our opinion – is very close to being fraud.
The input and output level metering in the plugin gives false (->fake) readouts in order to make it look as if the plugin would level-match the incoming and outgoing signal. Well, guess what: It doesn’t. Any level metering plugin behind EZmix can prove that. By doing this, Toontrack are utilizing the cheapest trick in making the listener think that something sounds “better” by sneakingly adding a few dB on top of the very basic dynamic EQ and compression that is going on under the hood. It is simply impossible to A/B check what it does because B will always be louder. We first thought they used this only for the advertising videos but no, the final product does it. Facepalm.
Wytse of White Sea Studio will have a good one at this soon. What a bummer!
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