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Someone once said “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”, and that is certainly true in the case of plug-in effects. With the advent of investigative utilities such as the excellent DDMF PluginDoctor (which I explored in AT133), and Christian Budde’s earlier VST Plugin Analyser, anyone can enter boffin mode and explore what their plug-ins are doing under the hood. However, it can be all too easy to write off a plug-in after misinterpreting test results. For example, one plug-in developer recently apologised on line for making plug-ins that completely confused most measuring plug-ins – as he jokingly pointed out, it can be

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