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MIA Laboratories 358 Enhancer Mk2 v1.0.2 REPACK-RET screenshot
Team RET | 28 Aug 2021 | 11.7MB
The 358 Enhancer MkII is the second generation of MIA Laboratories’ single-stage, ‘straight-path’ audio enhancer process, allowing control of the Low, Mid-Low, Mid-High and High frequency balance on the master, as well as on individual tracks. It can be used in many applications requiring from slight to more drastic frequency balance correction.



A single-stage, ‘straight-path’ audio enhancer process, allowing control of the Low, Mid-Low, Mid-High and High frequency balance on the master or individual tracks, featuring:

Internal multiband phase processing, for more dynamic, realistic frequency content
Detection stage based on the analog envelope detector circuit
Tunable crossover frequencies

REPACK : Unfinished VST3 file was included.

Thanks R2R for the anti MetaFortress trick!

* No iLok driver installation needed.
* It launches faster and more RAM friendly than original.




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comments

  Resident 4.08.2017 4 324
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...Aaaand they fixed it :)
Seriously, go get it. It sounds super clean and smooth, even on rougher material.
  Member 3.05.2014 70
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whoa! Team RET moves faster than light
  Resident 26.09.2012 3 1849
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pullteq sounding easy eq - just fantastic. thanks!!
1% cpu on an i5-2500...
  Member 31.05.2020 1 457
+429
I can confirm the strange CPU issue i reported perviously is now gone and Reaper behaves normal again.

Thanks for lightspeed fixing, R2R/RET !!!!
Keith Don't Go!
  Resident 4.08.2017 4 324
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I wonder what made me lucky the last time.
  Member 31.05.2020 1 457
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The first crack has worked for me too, justed hogged CPU excessively.

Maybe you have some newer & fast CPU that you didn't really notice the issue. I'm poor guy with some older and slowish CPU.
Keith Don't Go!
  Resident 4.08.2017 4 324
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Lolnope, my CPU is 9 years old.
  Member 8.02.2017 1 150
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i7 3770 here with 8GB DDR3 1600
Addicted to R2R / RET
  Resident 4.08.2017 4 324
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BTW I don't know what it does, really. It doesn't generate any new harmonics (Edit: actually it does, read below) as far as I can hear, it doesn't just boost the signal, and it doesn't seem to be a dynamic EQ either. There's something tricky going on to smooth out the sound. Some dynamic phase shifts maybe? I've heard of a weird technique with dynamic phase rotation to smooth out the transients without clipping.
Where's the Plugindoctor guy, he might be interested in this thingy.
  Member 27.11.2019 1 144
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At its core, 358 MkII utilizes multiband phase processing, as well as a sidechain detection stage based on the basic analog envelope detector circuit.


You are right, it's a phase processing algo.
M.I.A is creative:)
  Member 14.12.2014 8 80
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Hardly... phase shifting was used for the BBE Sonic Maximizers a long time ago
  Member 27.11.2019 1 144
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BBE is creative too :-D
  Resident 4.08.2017 4 324
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Lol, I just ruled out everything it doesn't seem to do and guesstimated what's left :)
I also just looked at some of their promos - and it seems these guys are serious engineers, but are clueless about marketing and very afraid of somebodu touchig their work without their written permit. So that explains something. A shame, they could've been big.
  Resident 1.04.2015 202
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Dub music for the video demonstration, can't go wrong with this product.
Thank you for the share
  Member 29.12.2017 174
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No harmonics. This is just eq. why do they call this an enhancer
  Banned 21.12.2018 518
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This plug-in 'smooths' the sound by generating harmonics with even harmonics being reversed in magnitude (4th, 6th, 2nd) compared to the natural harmonics distribution. And their magnitude order being changed to artificial: 4th, 6th, 3rd, 2nd and 5th.
Since it basically synthesizes harmonics, THD and IMD are rather high (IMD extremely). So the sound is intentionally blurred and softened. You can decide the frequency band(s) and the gain of that blurred region, if you happen to consider this 'enhancing'.
I don’t know what 'detection stage based on the analog envelope detector circuit' means, since harmonic distribution as described is not natural in the least.
Generally, this product might be considered as a harmonic overdrive (saturation) plug-in heavily dependent on user input.
  Resident 4.08.2017 4 324
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Edit: Oh hey, the fixed version actually does add harmonics - and exactly as weird as you described. I revert my statement.
Moreover, it doesn't do so statically, shifting in magnitude constantly, *and* it aliases, tho you probably won't hear that in a busy mix.
But since Mia themselves wrote about phase, I will presume it's a side effect.
You said IMD is extremely high? Does that mean it's gonna be too bad for mix bus? I just ran the project with it on master and it wasn't too bad. Wasn't worse than a half-finished crack from earlier, really.
Now when I think of it, you can't really gradually shift the phase of a signal without side effects.
  Member 8.02.2017 1 150
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What is IMD?
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  Resident 4.08.2017 4 324
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Intermodulation.
Basically, when you distort a simple sine, you get a harmonic series that's dependent on a sine's frequency. But if you distort two sine waves of different frequencies, you get not only two series of harmonics from both sines, but also a bunch of crap all around. Naturally, the more sine waves you distort, the more crap is generated.
The ability of a nonlinear system to create said crap is called intermodulation, and the crap itself is called intermodulation distortion, or IMD. It's generally bad for mastering gear to have noticeable IMD levels.
That being said, the way I understand "Extreme IMD" is that guitar amps and fuzz pedal have it. This plugin is far from extreme, or even that noticeable. It's always below -60 dB, most of the time it's below -90.
  Banned 21.12.2018 518
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358E IMD
As one can see, at all bandwidths set at 50% the heaviest IMD happens in the range of -40 to -55dB.
It is extreme compared to audio DSP plugins quality standards. Comparing to guitar pedals is very far fetched, and off topic in fact.
In plugins domain, such figures you get only with very poorly designed plugins or within the range of heavy distorting plugins.
  Resident 4.08.2017 4 324
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I couldn't get such figures with 100% settings, with sine sweeps, saw sweeps, chord sweeps of both, random sines and whatever.
And by the looks of it, you're clipping the output. You should not do that,
  Banned 21.12.2018 518
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No Clipping results
The output was left on default, I forgot to check it, I'm sorry.
Anyway, the result now is on the average only 5dB better. A decent plugin should have IMD somewhere around -90 dB, and a HQ one less than -110dB.
  Resident 4.08.2017 4 324
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That's still below Saturn's Clean Tape.
It's kind of the point of exciters to add new harmonics, I must add. I was surprised to not see them at first when I tested the unfinished crack. Right now I even think I might've made a mistake and they were there.
And waveshaping can't go without IMD.
At the end, all I can say is I like it's sound. Reminds me of ThrillseekerXTC, in a good way.
Would love to see oversampling options tho.
  Resident 15.09.2011 1 3906
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"Would love to see oversampling options tho."

That would help a great deal, yes. Even just 2-4x
"The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
  Member 8.02.2017 1 150
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Thank you RET and decibelle...

One day, i will understand purpose of this gifts and your hard work behind the scene...

Kind Regards!
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  Member 25.10.2019 527
+162
This one works perfect.
Studio One 5.3

thank you!
  Resident 7.04.2013 181
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InterModulation Distortion (IMD) is a specific form of aliasing where distortion arises from aliasing that has a frequency correlation with the original signal.

Most aliasing is frequency uncorrelated and too quiet to be perceived in the desired signal, but at points where the aliasing is frequency correlated to that signal, the distortion intermodulates the original signal at a level that can clearly be heard in the desired signal.

This why the first generation of CDs sound harsh, because the low pass digitising filters let enough signal through to fold back into the true signal and then correlate with the original signal, causing IMD.
  Resident 2.06.2014 13 265
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Can anyone confirm this is working properly in Ableton?

I just tried loading this repack and it blew up my master channel. Turning any of the knobs cranked out massive volume even with my master fader turned all the way down and it stayed red until I had to shut down and restart. If I had been using monitors rather than headphones, I'm sure I would have blown them right out.

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