Originally Posted by JohnJohnJohn
I recently spent $59.60 to upgrade to Nectar 4 so $50 sounds steep for one feature that Nectar 4 already has. I'd love to hear an A-B between Nectar 4 and Velvet if anyone has both.

The word I've received is that Velvet is the new Deesser module from Nectar 4. There is no reason to have both.

I tried it today on some 30 year old band tracks. The only copies I have are on cassette and I don't know how many generations my copies are. A couple of the members have passed away and the original tapes were wiped three decades ago. Anyway, the Deesser module is quite impressive and very easy to use with a nice visual indicator of when it's working. I figured that some of the distortion on this tape would never go away but setting the threshold down to -13.9dB did the trick.

It's a worthy competitor to eiosis and 1/3 the price.

The best deesser plugs don't let you hear 'em working.

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