Modern Interfaces & Excellent Audio

Goodhertz is easily one of my favorite plug-in designers these days as they make high fidelity audio inspiring. The look and feel of their plug-ins is also easy and refreshing, with flat colors on a white background. There are no knobs to “turn” with a mouse – just simple slider controls that change the percentage of each parameter.

CanOpener takes a great pair of headphones and makes them translate to speakers even better by introducing a little bit of crossfeed. What I like about Goodhertz take on this type of utility is they don’t introduce any type of correction or IR room simulation which has never worked for me.

I use Goodhertz plugins on every mix that I do. Lohi is my go-to filter, Vulf Compressor lives on my drum buss in varying amounts of wet/dry, and Wow Control and Lossy are instant vibe enhancers on so many sounds. I’m constantly finding new ways to use this stuff- like recently I automated Trem Control on a lead vocal to give it some tempo synced bounce and it really brought it to life. The GUI’s are beautiful and intuitive, and the way every plugin is some hybrid of eq/dynamics/tone gives them all such great utility. Truly can’t say enough good things.

Goodhertz plugins have been my not so secret sauce plugins for almost ten years now, they’re all over many Coldplay productions.

OK, this stuff is scary… like someone’s been inside my brain hearing my aural fantasies… and then made them real. I’ll be figuring out things to do with all these plugins for years.