Oeksound Bloom £169
Bloom is an adaptive EQ that will make your music sound better. Andy Jones says it’s harder to explain how it actually works than to just use it
Oeksound has become the developer to watch. It has big support for its small number of plugins, with their often dynamic and adaptive natures processing your signals as you go. Titles like Spiff control transients while the multi-award winner Soothe2 tackles resonance.
The all-new Bloom on test here is also adaptive.
It’s an EQ at heart, but one capable of increasing the good stuff while not increasing the bad.
Allow to Bloom
Bloom is what Oeksound calls ‘an adaptive tone shaper’ and the company has spent six years developing it, refining its DSP to increase warmth and presence, but in a way that doesn’t enhance some of the bad side effects that can come with this. Bloom essentially analyses your signal and improves it to give it these qualities, all while keeping, say, sibilance in a vocal or muddiness at the low end in check.