Thanks, all. And Mike, That track Spacer seems very promising and I will likely have a copy soon.

What it appears to do is what I was asking about, albeit with 32 bands of EQ rather than specific points. Still...32 bands is pretty significant "honing".

I don't want to "duck" the overall volume of a track against the vocals. I don't want to carve out the entire EQ range of the vocals from the track I'm looking to affect. Both of those have their purposes. I want to keep the overall level of the track as high as possible, just "ducking" the frequencies present in the vocals so there is reduced conflict. From watching the demos and a few testimonials, Track Spacer fits the bill in ways that other methods currently don't. The Hi and Lo pass/cut filters are a good addition.

Here's an example: You have a vocal and a piano. Broadly speaking, they are going to share much of the same frequency range. And the amount they share at any one time is going to be shifting constantly. The ideal (for me) is to compress on the piano ONLY those frequencies currently on the vocal track.

My first thoughts on this were about how to seat vocals (or perhaps other instruments) better into the mix without endless tinkering. The more I think about it, the more applications I can imagine. I think it would work well in separating two acoustic guitars (a main and a support), in carving out some space for a lead instrument against pads, and in "arpeggiating" pads, etc. in a more extreme application. Imagine a synth (or drum?) loop triggering 32 bands of compression on the EQ of a synth pad or line, where both remain "up front" and banging.

Last edited by Tangmo; 10/06/20 05:30 PM.
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