spiff Explained

Studio wizard Thomas Cochran presents comprehensive oeksound spiff video tutorials! A tool designed for surgical control of transients, spiff can help take your mix that extra step toward polished and professional-sounding, and these tutorials will teach you all you need to know about the plugin. Thomas takes you through the basics to get you up and running quickly and then demonstrates some more advanced techniques to show off what this plugin is truly capable of. These videos are new spiff users.

Videos

• Intro & Quick Start (08:54) - In this first video, Thomas shows off the presets browser and the basic layout of the plug-in.

• Main Section (08:52) - Explore the main section of the device and how the Depth control is used to dial in the sound you are looking for. Also learn the more advanced knobs like Sensitivity and Decay, both of which can modify the transient processing in spiff.

• Frequency Graph (08:35) - Discover the main frequency reduction section of the plugin and how the various EQ curves are used to select frequency ranges for the transient shaping.

• Stereo & Mid-side Section (06:55) - Learn how the plugin can be used for rebalancing audio across the stereo spectrum. This can be practical for advanced creative processing and audio repair.

• Output & Advanced Section (08:56) - This video shows the advanced section of the device and how it affects the quality of the audio processing. Thomas also shows the output controls and their functions.

• Emulating Tape Machines & Preamps (13:15) - This video shows the transient shaping with the spiff plugin can be used to emulate softness of a vintage tape machine and the punchy mid-range clarity of a hardware preamp.

• EQ-ing Sound with Transient Shaping (06:59) - Learn how to use this plugin as a dynamic transient equalizer. This enables new ways of wrapping sounds around each other in a mix.

• Vocal Processing (15:26) - Thomas shows how to process a vocal just using spiff for transient shaping. This works as a way of additive compression that enables you to add a compressed tone to a voice without sacrificing dynamics of the original permanence.