BOZ DIGITAL Boz Mongoose 2

One of the best-kept secrets of mixing records is referred to as the “black background” effect. Well, it’s not a secret insofar as you’ve heard it on classic records for decades. How to achieve it is quite another story. The concept is as follows: If you think in terms of instruments and voices as colors projected on a black screen; the contrast makes the colors appear that much more vivid and defined while maintaining a cohesive overall image. In DAW mixing, the exceptional ability of digital sampling to capture bass, even in the inaudible range, turns your background gray, clouding your mix. Why does this happen? Bass frequencies act omnidirectionally, whether they occur as waveforms in reality space, or as “1s” and “0s” in the digital realm. That means they permeate the stereo field. When you consider that left and right are all we really have in stereo and that the center image is an illusion, an instrument, with a preponderance of lows, even though inaudible, can unbalance a mix in a way that’s difficult to audibly pinpoint (an effect more noticeable in headphones, subconsciously drawing your attention). Keep in mind that instruments overlapping in the low- and low-mid frequency range will combine and reinforce in uneven and unpredictable ways. The result is a mix that’s smeared and muddy in the lower frequencies. Some mixers and mastering engineers suggest using a high-pass filter on every track as a starting point, but that runs the risk of thinning out the mix, taxing CPU resources better used for creative ends, and also eating up headroom—so no net gain there. OR, you could simply put the Boz Digital Labs Mongoose on your 2-bus and you’re moments away from achieving this arcane skill of A-list mixers and mastering engineers. Mongoose works its magic by summing low frequencies to mono so that equal levels occur left and right, which focuses them in the center image, leaving plenty of room on the sides for instruments. Mongoose—Just the Facts:- Sums low-frequencies to mono with adjustable crossover- Very low CPU impact- Focus and tighten low end while ensuring mix translation- Create contrast with high-frequency widening- Sculpt the width and depth of a mix- No phase issues when summing to mono

Features

• Quick solution for instant tighter mixes.
• Sums low frequencies to mono
• Super CPU efficient
• Make mixes translate better
• Sums low-frequencies to mono with adjustable crossover
• Very low CPU impact
• Focus and tighten low end while ensuring mix translation
• Create contrast with high-frequency widening
• Sculpt the width and depth of a mix
• No phase issues when summing to mono