It's designed to help you phase-shift a specific frequency range without influencing gain, primarily for aligning specific frequencies in multi-mic setups in order to reduce phase cancellations. "X-Phase is designed to help you phase-shift a specific frequency range without influencing gain" Essentially, it's an all-pass filter and delay, with manual control of filter response and delay time, the latter labelled in metres, feet, samples, milliseconds and seconds for intuitive interpretation. Pure phaseĪt £199, X-Phase is four times the price of the other two Duende Native newbies, so the assumption is that it must be pretty specialist - and, indeed, special. Also slightly deflating, incidentally, is the paltry preset selection (there's only nine). In fact, the only real disappointment is that there's no external sidechain - very surprising in this day and age. It's very easy to use, and although it's missing X-Comp's more esoteric 'bleed' options, the Valve setting adds an effective upper-mid enhancement. In addition to the regular Threshold, Ratio, Attack and Release controls, you get Knee shape, Hold, Peak and RMS sensing modes, manual and automatic gain Makeup, wet/dry mix and internal sidechain low-/high-cut filters. Next up, X-ValveComp is a compressor with optional valve saturation stage, sporting the same node-based interactive display as its older sibling X-Comp. However, it's also possible to get X-Saturator to clip at extreme input levels, producing an undesirable distortion that's nothing like the sweet saturation it's clearly intended to deliver, so those input settings are important. X-Saturator sounds great, producing soft but audible saturation that works beautifully on electric bass, drums, electric piano and electronic beats. "X-Saturator sounds great, producing soft but audible saturation that works beautifully" We found its behaviour somewhat program-dependent, transient-focussed sounds often sounding better without it and more legato sounds with. There's also a +6dB Headroom option, providing an extra 6dB of headroom above the saturation point.
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