Both hold no surprises, although the former includes a welcome Auto gain make-up setting, as well as the now-ubiquitous Mix control for parallel compression. Rounding off Essential FX are Compressor and Equalizer. While we're on the 'purely functional', Stereo Matrix gives control over mid/side balance, complete with left and right delay controls for very short L/R offset (up to 25ms). This offers nothing extra beyond the integrated one, but we appreciate having one to strap across the master channel or anywhere else we may require it. Further signal degradation can be achieved using the Bitcrusher, which reduces bit depth and sample rate.Īs mentioned, all of the Essential FX plugins include an output limiter, and there's also a standalone Limiter plugin. However, the 3-band version enables individual amount, gain and even mute controls for each band, so you can get pretty focused with it in terms of frequency-specific response. "Signal degradation can be achieved using the Bitcrusher, which reduces bit depth and sample rate"Įssential FX's two distortion plugins are both of the 'clip' variety, producing pretty similar edgy distortion.
As mentioned, Pattern mode is also great, with 12 very useable preset patterns on board. Both degrade the delay signal, with Ghost Q progressively narrowing the frequency range. However, our favourite controls are Bitcrusher / Rate Reduction and Ghost Q. You get eight overall modes, including CrossOver, PingPong and Pattern (more on this later), with high- and low-pass filtering of the delay signal on the bottom slider. Moving on, the Delay is also very well conceived. It isn't a huge issue, except in Autopan mode, where tempo sync would certainly be beneficial. Like we said, the main Rate setting can't be synced however, the secondary LFO does allow this. Couple this with some additional LFO modulation and you get into very interesting 'metallic' territory.įurther effects are ably demonstrated across the 43 presets.
Rate and Strength settings vary in behaviour between modes, with FM Nasty capable of producing the most extreme twangy effects. Not only does it include LFO tempo sync and six LFO shapes, but it also has four separate operational modes: Ring Modulation, Autopan, Frequency Modulation and Frequency Modulation Nasty. However, the real gem in modulation here is Multi Mod. "The real gem in modulation here is Multi Mod" They sound pretty good, although the Phaser and Flanger would benefit from a tempo sync option (we understand this is coming in a future update). The first three of Essential FX's modulation plugins (Chorus, Flanger and Phaser) successfully cover their designated effects.
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