At first, I was really orientating the tools
towards mastering, and that’s where we created,
I would say the fluxien-typicity, the natural
sound, the transparence, the excellence without
bias, that’s to say that we consider that
it’s the user that turns the buttons, who
makes the sound, we give them the best tools
so that they can do the best job, but, the
tools don’t “colour” the sound.
For Flux it was really a shift in practice.
We’re trying to create a new type of plug-in,
with the Yves Jaget signature.
The leitmotif is; simplicity, efficiency and
finally, a sound-signature, after all.
So, it’s not neutral, it’s brings a proposition
to the table.
Evo Channel is a toolbox, both simple in its
usage and complex in its possibilities.
It’s a tool that is capable of regenerating
harmonics, setting the phase upon entry, equalization,
dynamic treatment, I think that we’ve created
a tool with many uses, you can’t say that
the Evo Channel is made for mastering, recording
or mixing, its suitable for all of those things
together.
The 
idea behind the Evo Channel is really a channel
strip, it’s the ‘kit’ that allows the
user to do 70% of the work on a mix.
It’s useful in all domains, whether it be
in recording, mixing or live performance,
to control the level, the spectral balance,
the signal dynamic…
Therefore it’s really a tool that can be
used everywhere, all the time, always.
When we use tools, they must be instinctive,
rapid and efficient.
We don’t have time to try things on machines
with complicated settings.
It must follow the ideas that we have when
mixing; someone plays a note, the brain sends
the command to play that note, it’s already
on its way…
Yves brought something essential the table;
he brought the idea that we should never add
a button unless it was entirely necessary.
That can be a weakness of mine, I have the
tendency to say “yeah, but you know, maybe
we can add a little option here and then…”
no!
If we add the option we delegate the choice
to the user and that’s not what we want
to do, we want to make a proposition.
Many people try to reproduce the look of the
old front panels, the look of the vintage
machines, we however, have really gone the
opposite way, we’ve kept the characteristics
and the look of the Flux plug-ins that I like
so much.
We’ve kept it or even amplified it, that
aspect that treats the sound in an analogical
manner but is in fact a perfect digital machine.
Overall the Evo Channel is composed of 4 sections,
the first section is the gain, a preamp with
a harmonic generator with the extra, little
touch of the Evo channel being the phase function.
This allows the user to work on coherence.
With regards to phasing, coherence is extremely
important.
We didn’t do this before because it wasn’t
possible, but with this tool, you can reposition
and resynchronize the phase between microphones
and achieve a level of coherence that is pretty
amazing.
We set the entrance level, we define the gain
then we define the coherence between each
of the elements.
Then we have an equalization section, this
part allows the user to correct problems,
followed then by the dynamic section; so the
compressor, that’s the treatment of depth
to the sound, it’s the control of the dynamics,
it’s how to increase the density or how
to maintain the signal.
So we made modes that enable us to say; “when
I’m treating for example, the kick and snare
signals of a drum kit, I’m going to use
the kick/snare mode and there, we have a proposition.
When I treat one track, bang!
We have another proposition.
So it’s quick, and it has the Yves Jaget
color.
We’ve added a tool that enables the user
to add harmonics, we called this ‘Drive’,
it’s really an extraordinary tool, and personally
I use it profusely, everywhere.
It colors and gives warmth to the sound in
a very subtle way.
Then there’s the last section which is polymorphous,
it’s as much a de-esser for removing sibilance
from a voice, as it is a transient designer
that adds or removes the transients or the
sustain, or an expander that cleans up an
audio file.
We’ve achieved a project, a product that
has been elaborated from A to Z and is really
efficient.
Also, not only is it tailor-made but it is
also something that we expect will satisfy
and inspire the customer with its enjoyable
user-interface, its efficiency.
Finally, if I use it for production there’s
no reason why other people wouldn’t be happy
to do so also.
