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May 12, 2026

Fixate:Midrange is Out

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

Fixate:Midrange plugin at Knurl Mastering

It all started over Thai food in LA, talking shop about mastering, audio and plugins. At some point I mentioned I kept going back to the same faders on EQuivocate, and Dan just said that could be a great plugin idea: an application based EQuivocate. From there we went through proof of concepts, worked out the structure, fine-tuned the algorithm, and what started as a simple five knob idea grew into a really powerful and capable tool. Really glad it exists, and even happier that it's finally out there for everyone to try and grab.

It was really fun to be part of this from the initial idea all the way to a finished product. Go try it out!

Tags: #Mastering