Airwindows ResEQ: Mac/Windows/Linux AU/VST

Sometimes I'm just contrarian, and sometimes it's for a reason. I keep getting asked to make a 'Soothe' plugin. I get that: it's hyped, it lets you make stuff louder, my plugins are free and open source, why not etc etc. I understand why I'm getting asked to do that. However, I'm here to explain why this week's Airwindows plugin is an OPPOSITE 'Soothe', and why you would want to do the opposite of Soothe (a sophisticated and very busy plugin that scans for resonant peaks and whacks just the frequencies that are resonating the hardest). ResEQ is literally the farthest from that you can get. It's a bit like the filter banks on an old Polymoog. You set up frequencies (as many as eight, in parallel) and hear ONLY what those tight resonances let through. It'll kill other sounds as much as 90 or 100 dB down, nuke them completely beyond hearing. Far from evening out the tapestry of the sound and removing frequencies that poke out, it turns the WHOLE track into just beams of narrowly defined frequency. You can do this with light, too. I think Polaroid experimented with this. You can reconstruct a full-color image from several bands of tightly resonant color, because of how the eye interprets them. The same is true for the ear. Given enough distinct bands of super-resonant audio you get a kind of facsimile of the original sound, and it begins to sound like an insane, ultra-resonant fullrange sound, just completely weirded out. (if you try to put this on a mix buss you have only yourself to blame) http://www.airwindows.com/reseq-vst https://www.patreon.com/airwindows