The use of the three tabs - Produce, Tweak, and Mix present information in fundamentally different ways to help three different, but connected stages of the production process. The use of language is only one illustration of how Sonnox have considered exactly how information is presented. So while вЂњMudвЂќ is used to describe the sound of вЂbadвЂ™ 250Hz, вЂњBodyвЂќ is used to describe 250Hz as a positive contribution. Descriptive words are placed in the UI at appropriate points, and usefully both positive and negative words are used. When discussing the sound of mixes most of us, even if talking to another engineer who we know to be familiar with what 250Hz sounds like, would probably refer to вЂmuddinessвЂ™ rather than using a number. Something which stands out about Claro is the way in which it uses the language we use to communicate ideas about timbre rather than using dry numbers. If I ever need a 120dB/Oct high pass filter itвЂ™s available here - though I canвЂ™t imagine that happening any time soon! Smart Idea 1 - Use of Language In a quick nulling test I got the bell filter in the Produce tab to null pretty well against the Oxford EQ in Type 3, the вЂњNeve-yвЂќ one and my favourite. In terms of sound there isnвЂ™t much to say, by which I mean itвЂ™s a Sonnox designed EQ and is a clean and effective as you would imagine. Tweak offers as many bands as you can shake a stick at (I got bored trying to max it out) and a right click reveals every shape and combination of split, mid/side etc. The Width setting creates filters in the Sides channel. The high and low Pass filters offer slopes from 6dB/Oct to 120dB/Oct, Produce offers three bell filters, the high and low bands can be switched to shelf, the high and low bands each having different shelf shapes. Claro takes the best of the rich visual feedback available in plugins and combines it with lots of cues to encourage the user to stay in the creative mindset rather than getting too influenced by the numbers.ДЇor something that at first looks like a 3 band EQ, the facilities on offer are comprehensive. The excellent Oxford Dynamic EQ is much more modern in its presentation but is fundamentally a dynamic EQ. Sonnox certainly know a thing or two about quality equalisers but their best known EQ product, the venerable and highly respected Oxford EQ, is a traditional console EQ which presents the tools but does little to help a novice. In the video I show Claro in action, firstly on a solo piano recording and then demonstrating the Mix page on a multitrack session. The way this works is by specifying a reference track and then a detailed comparison can be made of that track against the reference track by selecting it.

The energy display from the centre of the Produce tab, which shows the energy of the signal across the audio spectrum in a horizontal bar, is represented for every instance of Claro and potentially problematic build-ups of energy at specific frequencies are identified as yellow bars. Then there is a third tab - вЂMixвЂ™, which presents every instance of Claro in a session to be viewed together in the same window.

However at any point the user can take those intuitive settings from what Sonnox have called the вЂProduceвЂ™ tab and open them in вЂTweakвЂ™, where a more conventional, fully-featured modern EQ plugin allows any necessary adjustments to the first pass to be made. A simple interface with 3 bands of EQ with descriptive language and visual representation of the audio given priority over numbers like frequency and Q values. The clever thing about Claro is how it presents itself.

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