This is a dynamic processor that apparently manages audio transients. As with all Flux plug-ins it features 64 bit floating point processing, for up to 8 channels. Centre and Stereo Modes are only available in stereo (2 channels) processing.
According to Flux, turning the central button on the sweet side, decreases the transients amplitude. On the bitter side, the transients amplitude is magnified. Bitter-Sweet also features a control to determine which elements of the signal are to be processed. In the main position, the process affects the entire stereo signal. In the Centre position, only the M signal of the internal MS matrix is processed. When Stereo is selected, only the S signal from the MS matrix is processed.
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I have to admit I was sceptical at what this plug-in would do. So I first tried it on a solo vocal and I found that reasonable amounts of Bitter brought some life back into the vocal. Be careful not to over do it or all the starts of words and phrasing can jump out at you. Next I tried it on the piano track and the Sweet side didn’t have a huge effect but the Bitter side just seemed to emphasis the attack of the notes and made that particular piano sound very clunky. I followed this with a look at a bass track and medium amounts of Bitter increased the attack of the bass giving it some more ‘cut’ on the track. Conversely the Sweet side smoothed out the attack on the notes and produced a smoother sounding bass sound. Finally I turned to an acoustic guitar track. There is a track on an album that has a classical guitar which I miced with an MS pair but had to mic quite closely as there was a strings section playing in the room as well. When it came to the mix we wanted to get some sense of distance and my normal route is to use Waves Trueverb ‘inline’ and use the distance control to get that sense of distance but on this occasion it wasn’t working as well as I would like. Adding the Bitter-Sweet to it and turning it fully over to the Sweet side allowed me to back off the Truverb quite a lot and has improved the sense of space and distance I was looking for.
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