toggling between them it’s clear to me “Benson2 - FinalLoud3” is the better of the two.
The resonance difference is obvious using earphones which can reproduce bass.
Even on laptop speakers, which have no bass, there is still a difference,
as “Benson - Macro FinalLoud3 v.2” lacks treble, so seems slightly lispy in comparison.
Nitpicking alert:
at times the sibilance on “Benson2 - FinalLoud3” is slightly too much, IMO.
[applying a limiter with make-up gain, like FinalLoud3, will inevitably increase sibilance].
And there is a very slight hiss, (you haven’t used Couture).
You can Can kill 2 birds with 1 stone: apply Couture with these settings at the end of your effects chain, (must be applied after the limiter),
2birds1stone.xml (1.25 KB)
NB: when applied, Couture can sometimes take ~3 seconds to settle-down and behave properly,
a workaround is to duplicate ~5 seconds of audio at the start, which Couture may ruin, which you can chop-off later.