MIXVAULT Manual

1Quick Start

MIXVAULT makes EQing feel more natural, creative and immersive. Instead of staring at a traditional EQ curve, you're shaping the sound in front of you using your ears and feel. Pull a frequency towards you to bring it forward, push it away to reduce it, and the whole room reacts as you work. It sounds simple, but it completely changes how you interact with EQ. You stop obsessing over what the curve looks like and start focusing on what the music actually needs.

1. Load MIXVAULT on any track, bus, or full mix.
2. Shape by feel. Pull a frequency towards you to make it louder, push it away to make it quieter, every move perfectly level-matched in real time.
3. Want a fast starting point? Hit ANALYZE, pick your source (mix, vocals, bass, drums, or music) and genre, and you'll get a Smart Preset to work from.
4. Step through the preset arrows to explore alternatives, each labelled with its character (dark, balanced, bright), and bypass to A/B against your original.

2The Immersive EQ

The visual is something you can reach out and grab. The room expands and contracts as you work, so you don't just hear your changes, you watch your sound take shape and get a real sense of depth as you move each node forward and back. It's a feel for what you're doing, and how you're changing your sound, that no other plugin gives you.

It's fast and purposefully simple, so you make the moves that matter and stay in your flow. And every adjustment is perfectly level-matched in real time, so louder never fools you into thinking it's better, you're always hearing the real change to your sound.

As your audio plays, a live delta visual paints onto the sides of the room, so you can see exactly how your EQ is shaping the signal while you work.

Working with the bands

Whenever a band is highlighted, you can push and pull it from wherever your cursor lands, you don't have to hit the line exactly. To set a value precisely, double-click the dB readout and type it in.

Zooming in on a frequency range

The Hz strips run down both walls of the room. Scroll your mouse over a strip to zoom in or out on that part of the spectrum, moving in closer when you want to dial in something specific, or back out for the full picture.

3Resolution: Broad, Balanced, Detailed & Bass

The dropdown at the top left sets how many bands MIXVAULT gives you. Fewer, wider bands for fast, broad shaping, or more, tighter bands when you want finer control. Every option sounds just as clean, so pick whichever suits the moment. Switch between them at any time and MIXVAULT keeps the rough shape you were already working on, so moving from Detailed to Broad, or into Bass, carries your tonal intent across rather than starting over.

4Analyze & Smart Presets

ANALYZE gives you a strong starting point in seconds. You tell MIXVAULT the source and genre you are working on, but the Smart Preset it builds is shaped by your actual audio, not a fixed curve. The same preset reacts differently to different input, so what you get is tuned to the track in front of you, ready to shape from there.

How to Analyze

Choose your source type, mix, vocals, music, bass, or drums, then select the genre that best fits your track. Play your audio and MIXVAULT analyses it against that choice, loading a Smart Preset as your starting point. From there, pull and push the frequencies to make it your own.

Navigating Presets

Use the arrows in the preset bar to step through alternative suggestions. They are labelled by character, running from darker to brighter, bass heavy, full bodied, dark, warm, balanced, bright, piercing. Because they are ordered this way, scrolling through them sweeps you from a darker sound to a brighter one, and presets next to each other are close variations. That makes it easy to nudge one step at a time and hear which side works better. Everything stays perfectly level-matched, so you can audition quickly and keep whichever feels right without louder ever skewing the choice.

Factory Presets

A small set of factory presets is also on hand for an instant result without running an analysis. They are a quick way in, but we always recommend a Smart Preset or a reference track, because those are tuned to the audio you are actually working on and give more relevant results.

5Reference Tracks

Import your own reference tracks and MIXVAULT will use them as a tonal target, just like STEREOVAULT and FASTER MASTER. Load a track you love the sound of, and MIXVAULT will guide your EQ moves towards that balance. Because the comparison is perfectly level-matched, you are hearing a true difference in tone rather than the reference simply being louder, which is the fastest way to match a professional sound without second-guessing your ears.

6Trim & Visualizer

Trim

The Trim panel handles level and blend. MIX (%) blends between your dry and processed signal, IN (dB) and OUT (dB) set input and output gain, and LEVEL MATCH keeps the output matched to the input so you always compare tone rather than volume.

Visualizer

The Visualizer settings live in the bottom right corner and control what you see in the room. Open them to adjust the display to your taste, and step into Advanced mode to get at everything under the hood and make the visual your own.

7Toolbar

The toolbar runs along the top of the plugin and contains global controls.

8System Requirements & Installation

The MIXVAULT interface is fully resizable, so you can scale it to suit your screen and workflow.