The plugin wasn’t enhancing voices. It was exchanging them. Every time I polished a singer’s imperfection, every time I smoothed a crack or softened a rasp, the plugin was taking that “character” and storing it. Feeding it into some vast, hungry archive. And in return, it was giving me—and my clients—a voice from that archive. A composite. An echo of a stranger’s soul.
I set the dial to 30%. Switched to Digital. Pressed process. Noveltech Vocal Enhancer -MAC-
I shouldn’t have clicked it. But I did. The plugin wasn’t enhancing voices