What it does

Schmear is a vocal widener with exactly three settings: 3, 6 and 9 cents. These are the exact settings I use on 99% of my vocals, across my productions and vocal productions. Pick one, blend it in, or put it on a send the way I do, and move on. Under the hood it is a pair of short, modulated delay lines pitched in opposite directions, tuned so vocals stay centered and phase-safe when you sum to mono.

• Three fixed detune amounts, no fiddling
• Mono-compatible spread
• Input and output trim
• A/B compare, undo, preset browser
• Includes a Lucas Arens preset pack, with more on the way from today’s top producers and mixers
• Zero latency
• New in 1.0.2: a click loads a preset in every DAW, preset rows highlight on hover, and Save and Rename dialogs open on top of the plugin. On Windows: no more DAW freezes when the plugin is removed, activation fixes, and it now shows in a proper VST3 folder

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