ThrillseekerXTC – bringing mojo back
ThrillseekerXTC mkII is a psychoacoustic audio exciter based on a parallel dynamic equalizer circuit. It takes our hearing sensitivity into account especially regarding the perception of audio transients, tonality and loudness.
The mkII version now introduces:
• Plugin operating level calibration for better gainstaging and output volume compensated processing.
• A reworked DRIVE/MOJO stage featuring full bandwidth signal saturation and a strong
focus on perceived depth and dimension. It provides all those subtle qualities we typically associate with the high-end analog outboard gear.
• Special attention has been taken to the mid frequency range by introducing signal compression which improves mid-range coherence and presence.
• Relevant parts of the plugin are running at higher internal sampling frequencies to minimize aliasing artifacts.
Available for Windows VST in 32 and 64bit as freeware. Download your copy here.
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Yay, great news! I really like how subtle this plugin works, its great for mixing. Cant wait to try the new version!
I love this plugin and used it often when I was using Windows, but…
I know there will be no plan for the Mac version. just hoping it.
But thank you for making new version.
Incredible work here. Bloody amazing sound. Have loved XTC since you released it all those years ago! HUGE THANKS!
Thank you, thank you so much
Fantastic. All the Thrillseekers are my fave Plugs you made. Thanks for your generous work
Do we report bugs here? I managed to make it ‘give up’ by playing with the internal headroom control. It got super saturated then just cut completly out and the output needle disapeared! it stayed like that even after returning the parameter to normal. there was still input registering and the midband compression leds were pinned but complete silence on the output.
it was using vst2 64bit version inside ableton 11.
don’t know if it’s anything to worry about but I rememerer nastyVCS also cut during the beta. So not sure if related.
Seems like one of the saturators is not 100% stable at large gain – will put that on the patch list …
Thanks for the report!
how very analog! haha
Ohhhh!!! Congrat and thanks, I was waiting a lot for it..
Amazing, cant wait to try 64 bit. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this and all your other work. Truly wonderful. Thanks!
Very good news !!
Thanks
Thank you Bootsy. Best wishes..
Greetings from Japan!
I wish someday we can use SlickHDR 64Bit (worst reputation for its ability. I use it almost every projects)
I Absolutely agree from South Korea.
Good news! Waiting for x64 version long time.
I love your plugins! Would you ever consider making them in .aax format as well?
If not, any tips on how to use your plugins in Pro Tools?
Thanks,
Kelvin
Well.. In Reaper x64 (copy n’ paste x64 vstplugins folder) is not loading… 🤷♂️
64-bit plugins in cubase are recognized to me as 32-bit. I can’t use them. What can be?
maybe it’s being bridged from 64 to 32?
In 64 bit (cubase 10.5, W10) no vst recognizes me. After I tried on Nuendo 4 x86, the 32bit vst doesn’t work either. Previous versions worked perfectly.
Just switching the DRIVE/MOJO section on seems to switch polarity of the output. Doesn’t really matter when using the MIX knob … however, some rather sophisticated setups might require to use DAW-controlled mix amounts (e.g. when trying to spice up and mix back parallel processed duplicates of the main audio), and then only 0% or 100% mixes sound right. Is that intended per design, or even inevitable? Would it be safe to simply use a polarity switcher as a workaround? Great work BTW!
It is not a simple polarity switch and you can’t mix it back into a dry signal. That is by design.
Still using all your 32 bit plugins for my mixes! Thank you for this and welcome back!
Thrillseeker colouring the sound so gentle… Once again Thanks!
Many thanks !!! XTC is one of the plugins that i use to most of my mixes, with Thrillseeker VBL. I am so happy that you made the 64 bit version !
PLease release the OSX version!!!
Not gonna happen. They were developed in flow stone in his spare time. It’s a Windows only environment. Would take a serious amount of work to re write from scratch I think.
Nice plugin! It will be very useful for subtle mixing moves. Is there any possibility of adding linear phase filters in future updates?
This MkII version adds richness to the sound, with less risk of harshness that the MkI could sometimes produce. Nice work.
MKII is great! There are times I really love the new Mid band with compressor. But there are other times the Mid band of MKI without compression is preferable. Maybe a switch for the compressor (fingers crossed)?
Wonderful! 🙂 ❤
I love this plugin but it works on my daw 1 out 10 times. Otherwise, it make my project and my daw crash. How can it be fixed ? Win10, FL20, up to date, only this plugin causes crashes.