Floorfish: The Master of Dynamics in Your Hands
In the world of music production, where every detail matters, controlling the dynamic range of recordings is fundamental. Whether it’s taming unruly peaks, removing unwanted background noise, or giving percussive instruments clarity and punch, the correct use of dynamic processors plays a key role in creating a professional sound. This is where Floorfish from Digitalfishphones comes to the rescue – a simple but extremely effective plugin designed to give you complete control over the dynamics of your audio tracks.
What is Floorfish?
Floorfish is a specialized expander/gate plugin created with the philosophy of “easy to start, powerful to use.” Its primary purpose is the flexible management of the loudness of an audio signal below a certain threshold value. This allows you to perform various tasks: from barely noticeable expansion of the dynamic range to completely cutting off signals that drop below the set level.
Features and Capabilities of the Plugin
Floorfish impresses with its simple interface, making it accessible even for newcomers to the world of audio processing. However, behind this simplicity lies significant potential for detailed customization. The plugin offers a wide range of applications:
- Light Expansion: Add some “air” and dynamics to dull recordings, delicately boosting the quieter parts of the signal above the threshold and weakening those below, making the overall sound more lively.
- Background Noise Reduction: Effectively eliminate hum from amplifiers, air conditioner noise, the vocalist’s breathing in pauses, or other unwanted sounds that spoil the clarity of the recording. This is especially useful for guitar tracks, vocals, or old analog recordings.
- Extreme Gating: Create hard, controlled transitions between sound and silence. Ideal for giving clarity and articulation to individual percussion instruments (e.g., snare drum or hi-hats), controlling the sustain of a bass guitar, or creating creative rhythmic effects.
Unique Approach to Dynamics
What distinguishes Floorfish from many other gates and expanders? Its unique ability to analyze the incoming audio signal and automatically adapt the transition curve. This intelligent feature allows you to achieve a more natural and musical result, minimizing the risk of unwanted artifacts, such as “stuttering” of the sound or cutting off the ends of notes, which may occur when using standard gates.
- Analysis of the output signal to optimize performance.
- Automatic adjustment of the transition curve for smooth or sharp gating/expansion.
- Intuitive adjustment of parameters such as threshold, ratio, attack, release, and hold.
The Perfect Solution for Your Windows Studio
Floorfish is distributed as a VST plugin and is fully compatible with Windows (Win32) operating systems, making it easily integrated into most modern DAWs, such as FL Studio, Ableton Live, Cubase, Reaper, and others that support the VST format.
Whether you’re a professional sound engineer, a musician recording at home, or an enthusiast striving to improve the quality of your recordings, Floorfish from Digitalfishphones will become an indispensable tool in your arsenal. Its combination of simplicity, flexibility, and unique capabilities makes it an excellent choice for any task that requires precise control over the dynamic range. Try Floorfish and see how easy and effective it can be to manage the dynamics of your tracks!
