Really happy to finally talk about this one. I helped Dan at Newfangled Audio build Fixate:Midrange, and it's out today!

It all started over Thai food in LA, talking shop about mastering, audio and plugins. At some point I mentioned that I kept going back to the same handful of faders on EQuivocate, and Dan said that could be a great plugin idea: an application-based EQuivocate. From there we went through proofs of concept, worked out the structure, fine-tuned the algorithm, and what started as a simple five-knob idea grew, in the way these things do when two people keep saying "but what if it also...", into a genuinely powerful and capable tool.

The plugin is focused on solving midrange problems in mixes or individual instruments. There's a dynamic side for taming things like mud, honk, harshness and nasal, and a static side, built on EQuivocate's technology, that can improve and correct the midrange automatically or simply be used as a conventional EQ.

It was really fun to be part of this from the initial idea all the way to a finished product. There's a demo version, so you don't have to take my word for any of this, which is exactly how it should be. Go try it out.