Equinox Explained

With Equinox, iZotope has thrown down the gauntlet on reverb plugins, creating one of the most flexible and powerful algorithmic verb plugins ever. With this Equinox video course, Groove3 instructor Eli Krantzberg will walk you through the plug from front to back, leaving no stone unturned and demonstrating how to harness its potential and completely transform your mixes and your thoughts about reverb altogether! Don't believe us? Just watch! These Equinox videos are designed for new Equinox users.

Videos

• Equinox Overview (05:57) - Get a tour of the interface and learn where all the functions of this full-featured algorithmic reverb are located.

• Broad Controls (05:42) - Learn how to dial your sound in quickly using just a few of the most important reverb-shaping parameters.

• Working with Presets (06:04) - See how to save your own presets, search using the tag and filter system, enable and import Stratus and Symphony presets, and more.

• Tail Attack (05:18) - Explore the subtle but powerful functions used to control the onset and irregularities of the tail portion of the reverb signal.

• Reverb Tail (06:30) - Discover the Damping and Crossover controls used to dampen and adjust the length of the reverb tail at various frequencies and hear how the Suppression and Delay controls are used to control the ducking and bloom of the reverb tail.

• Early Reflections (06:58) - Hear how the spacing and spread of the early reflections portion of the reverb signal affects the listener's perception as to the placement of the source audio within the virtual space.

• Chorus (04:29) - Explore the lovely lush-sounding modulation possibilities Equinox provides separately for both the reverb tail and the early reflections.

• Drive (05:15) - Discover ways to degrade the reverb quality with distortion for creative effect or to more subtly simulate older digital hardware units that operated at lower resolutions.

• EQ (03:37) - Learn how to either subtly or creatively add some filtering separately to the input signal, the early reflections, and the reverb tail.

• Compression (03:29) - Hear how the built-in compression is used to tailor the shape of your reverb bloom around the input signal.

• Gated Reverb (04:18) - Learn how to get the most out of this vintage effect on modern sounds.

• Unmasking (05:34) - Discover spectral ducking and see how to use it to fit your reverb around the source signal by taming frequency clashes.

• Freeze (02:29) - Explore the Freeze function and see how to automate it as an effect, creating a reverb drone while simultaneously muting new input.

• Putting It All Together (06:36) - Follow along as two variations of a vocal reverb are crafted from scratch using a combination of the fabulous features found in Equinox.