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DaVinci ResolvePremiere ProFinal Cut Pro· voice plugin

Turn one knob and your voice is ready to upload.

Put Velvox on your voice track in DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro, on Windows or Mac. It cuts the rumble and the mud, evens out your level, adds presence and lands the voice at about -16 LUFS by itself. Made for a voice recorded in a quiet room.

Velvox: a small desk unit with red velvet sides, its brass VELVOX nameplate over one big knob at 65% and a lit VU meter reading ready to upload at -15.8 LUFS
Velvox 1.0

Off, then on · one take

Hear what one knob does.

One take, recorded on several mics at once, each at the level it came in at, with Voice Isolation and a mouth de-click on. Each part plays with Velvox off, then with Velvox on at 70%. The window and the loudness ruler show where each one lands.

Three rules · read these first

Where it goes, and what it does not do.

On the voice track.

On the track the knob is instant, and one Velvox covers every clip on it.

  • Resolve: the Fairlight page, Mixer. On your voice track's strip, click + in the Effects slot and pick Velvox.
  • Premiere: Window > Audio Track Mixer. Show the effects (the small triangle at its top left), then pick Velvox in an empty effect slot on the voice track.
  • Final Cut: it has no tracks, so put Velvox on the voice clip, or on a compound clip holding the whole voice.

Not on the clip in Resolve. A clip effect is rendered ahead of time, so every knob move is heard a second or two late.

A quiet room.

You do not need a treated studio, just no wind, no traffic and no fan.

It does not remove noise. When it lifts a quiet take, the hiss comes up with the voice. Recorded somewhere noisy? Clean the clip first, then put Velvox on the track.

  • Resolve: Noise Reduction (or Voice Isolation in Resolve Studio), on the clip.
  • Premiere: Essential Sound > Reduce Noise or Enhance Speech, on the clip.
  • Final Cut: Voice Isolation or Noise Removal in the Audio inspector, on the clip.

Voice only on that track.

Velvox is made for a voice. Keep music on a track of its own.

Not with music. Music on the voice track swells in the pauses.

The whole plugin · one knob, one lamp

What you can change.

Amount runs from 0 to 100 and starts at 50. At 0, Velvox is close to off. From 25% up, your voice lands at upload level by itself, and the knob sets how smooth and clear it sounds.

Under the knob are nine stages, in this order. You never set them one by one.

The Velvox window: a brass and steel faceplate with the knob at 80% on the left and a VU meter on the right, reading ready to upload at -15.2 LUFS with a gold lamp
Velvox 1.0 · the knob at 80%
  1. Rumble cutCuts the low rumble under the voice.
  2. De-mudA dip in the low mids, where a voice sounds boxy.
  3. LevelerRides your level, up to +30 dB on a quiet take.
  4. CompressorEvens out the words, and looks ahead so a phrase after a pause does not jump out.
  5. Presence and airBrings the voice forward and opens up the top.
  6. De-esserA light one, for sharp S sounds.
  7. Pause expanderBetween phrases it pulls the room back down, so lifting your voice does not lift the room as much.
  8. LoudnessLands the voice at about -16 LUFS, from 25% up.
  9. Safety limiterKeeps the peaks under -1 dBFS.

The lamp tells you when it is ready.

The meter reads your voice over the last 3 seconds of talking, in LUFS. Gold, ready to upload, is -18 to -14. Amber is quieter than that, red is louder.

The meter reading "ready to upload"
ready to upload-18 to -14 LUFS. The lamp is gold.
The meter reading "a bit quiet: turn it up"
a bit quiet: turn it upUnder -18 LUFS. The lamp is amber.
The meter reading "loud"
loudOver -14 LUFS. The lamp is red.
The meter reading "play some audio"
play some audioNothing to read yet. The lamp is off.

Specification

What you are installing.

Price
FreeAnd it stays free
Resolve
Free or StudioAn effect on the voice track, on the Fairlight Mixer
Premiere
Premiere ProAn effect on the voice track, in the Audio Track Mixer
Final Cut
Final Cut ProOn the Mac, as an Audio Unit. Final Cut has no tracks: put Velvox on the voice clip, or on a compound clip holding the whole voice
Format
VST®3 + AUVST3 on Windows. AU and VST3 on a Mac
Windows
10 and 1164-bit
Mac
macOS 11+Apple silicon and Intel, one universal build. AU and VST3
Latency
7 msReported to your editor, which lines the voice back up
Load
LightAbout 100 to 150 times faster than real time, on one processor core

Tested by ear in DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro on Windows and Mac, three mics.

Free, and it stays free

Get Velvox 1.0.

The plugin for Windows and Mac, with an install guide for Resolve and one for Premiere, in one download.