Voxengo PHA-979

Applications

  • Track phase fixer
  • Track time shifter
  • Mid-side stereo widener
  • Stereo panner
  • Stereo balance meter
  • Stereo correlation analyzer

PHA-979 is a professional audio AU and VST plugin which allows you to apply an arbitrary phase shift to sound material. What is meant by the phase shift here is simultaneous shifting of all frequencies across the active frequency range of the signal by the given value in degrees. This is achieved by linear-phase design.

PHA-979 is useful during mixing sessions, especially when working with the sound material recorded through an array of microphones. In many cases this allows you to solve various phasing problems arising from the microphone placement chosen during the tracking session. In other cases this process may help you to align drums and other instruments to each other bringing punch and time coherence not attainable by the ordinary time-aligning alone.

Beside the phase shifting, PHA-979 features positive and negative time delaying that eliminates the need to move in-track events in the sequencer when doing time alignment over any set of recorded tracks. PHA-979 also provides mid/side channel balance and panning controls that permit you to record stereo microphone pairs into a single stereo track without resorting to dual mono recording (on separate tracks) which usually becomes time-consuming in a further editing.

PHA-979 features multi-band analog-style correlation meter that greatly simplifies phase- and time-aligning process. Moreover, you can use functionality PHA-979 provides to setup headphone monitoring so that it closer resembles sound stage produced by stereo speaker monitoring.

Features & Compatibility

  • Arbitrary signal phase control
  • Positive/negative time delaying
  • Stereo output panning
  • Preset manager
  • Contextual hint messages
  • Linear-phase design
  • Delay time calculator
  • Stereo and mono processing
  • Undo/redo history
  • All sample rates support
  • Multi-band correlation meter
  • Mid/side channel balance control
  • 64-bit floating point processing
  • A/B comparisons
  • 48 ms compensated processing latency

Demo limitations

Processing output is muted for a moment every 45 seconds.

(Demo version is authorized with a product key, which is a text string - no challenge/response nor dongle required)

Compatibility

This audio plugin can be loaded into any audio host application that conforms to the AudioUnit or VST plugin specification.

RTAS compatibility is available by using the FXpansion VST-RTAS adapter.

This plugin is compatible with Windows (32- and 64-bit Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and later versions) and Mac OS X (10.6 and later versions, 32- and 64-bit, Intel processor-based) computers (2 GHz dual-core or faster processor with at least 2 GB of system RAM required). A separate binary distribution file is available for each target computer platform for each audio plugin specification.