So cool! Composition for both track kept me on the edge of my seat. Was upset when choral ended haha I wanted to hear the rest. Really love the dissonance in finished track, and how you climb back out of it. The only critical thing I can think to say is I wish there was more of it!
Most of Reaper's stock plugins are an enigma to me, including ReaFIR. Definitely checking it out after this!
ReaFIR set to compressor mode seems to really deal with harsh resonances without fully EQing things.
I.e. a EQ will just squash all the frequencies down evenly in thar range, whereas this style of compressor seems to dynamically reduce harsh resonances, making the sound more pleasing and able to be louder overall.
Basically its like compression applied with an EQ curve, and likewise just targets spikes in frequencies in those particular ranges, allowing you to keep more sound and clarity, but while drastically reducing harshness.
