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OVERSEER
quick-start.
See your whole session the way an engineer hears it, then apply and undo real cross-plugin fixes.
6 steps · every control name is the real one · Utility
Put it on the master
Insert OVERSEER on the master bus and press play. Every Echelon plugin in the session wakes up and starts publishing spectrum, level and gain reduction to the mesh — the SOURCES counter in the header climbs and lanes appear within a couple of seconds, no routing to configure.
Name your tracks
Name tracks in the DAW — KICK, 808, LEAD VOX — and the names and colours flow through: each lane is headed by the track name and the plugin publishing it. The vocal-protection logic keys off words like VOX, LEAD and HOOK, so naming isn't cosmetic.
Read the lanes
SESSION LANES lists one publishing plugin per row, loudest first: a 30-band spectrum with red tint where that track collides with another, live GR readouts from the dynamics plugins, and the COLLISION HEATMAP ribbon for the last 60 s. SENSITIVITY in the header sets how small an overlap counts; PIN protects a track from automatic moves.
Check Session Health
MASTER BUS · SESSION HEALTH scores MIX HEALTH from SEPARATION 35% / BALANCE 30% / DYNAMICS 20% / HEADROOM 15%, each shown as its own bar, with RMS, PEAK, TP and LUFS-I readouts. Open DETAILS and press SNAP A before you fix anything so you have a before.
APPLY a fix
The verdict banner at the top names the single worst problem, and its APPLY button executes the fix on a plugin already on that track: a dynamic EQ cut in Contour or SCULPT, a sidechain-keyed duck, or an output trim capped at ±3 dB. SUGGESTIONS holds the rest — FIX LOW END, SIT THE VOCAL, GAIN-STAGE SESSION — and each FIX card's % chip shows how much of the last minute the problem was present.
Verify with the ledger
Every move lands in the APPLIED MOVES ledger with an UNDO that reverses the exact change — both survive saving and reloading. SNAP B after your fixes and hover the delta for the per-category receipt; REPORT exports the whole thing as HTML and FREEZE holds the analysis still while you read it.
Pro moves
Once it's working.
- FREEZE holds the analysis still so you can read it while the track plays — audio is never affected; OVERSEER is a bit-transparent passthrough.
- A card showing NO RECEIVER means nothing on that track is listening — add an Echelon EQ or dynamics plugin there and retry.
- The over-compression watchdog is advice-only by design: thresholds are taste, levels are arithmetic.
- REFERENCE, next to DASHBOARD, compares the session against a reference mix's balance.
