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PhoenixVerb is very impressive without being super innovative in its function or offering any mysterious black audio magic. Sporting a sexy new GUI in its most recent version, it is simply a well-organized, easy-to-use, natural, non-metallic sounding, DSP light, dependably automateable reverb offering Eucon support. It offers everything you need and doesn’t overwhelm you with parameters. You can open it up and know what to do, right away. Michael Carnes, the creator of PhoenixVerb says: “I spent a good deal of time designing an early reflection architecture that would add density naturally, acting as a bridge into the reverb tail. At the same time, I didn’t want to burden the user (or myself) with setting up dozens of delays: that’s a true creativity-killer. As a result of that thought process, I came up with a simple rubber-banded UI that’s quick and visually intuitive. Three little knobs control the whole early section.” Exponential Audio verbs also monitor their signal to help manage system resources. Unlike other verbs, they will stop cycling and wasting resources when signal falls below a user preset volume threshold. PhoenixVerb’s focus on system conservation often allows mixers to have many copies of the verb within a session without exhausting system resources. It offers more than 1,000 presets, which are easily searchable using keywords, and saves user presets to all copies of the software to be reachable from whatever application may be hosting PhoenixVerb. Finally, since the nomination for Technical Achievement at the 50th CAS Awards, Carnes has released a surround version of this plug-in. Continuing his focus on a natural sound and simplicity of operation, along with input from the post mixing community, he feels “they [surround versions] have largely superseded the stereo versions for post use.” Unlike the technical innovators in the competition, PhoenixVerb is a solid classic that will bring you back because it just sounds great. •