[Eganmedia]

Trying it on a mix the only way to audition it. I bought it when it first came out and have used it on every mix in the years since. Its lack of per-track controls is by design. If I want to affect a particular track with more harmonic content than I hear through Heat on the mixbus I have other options. You can also raise the clip gain of a particular track to get it to drive Heat harder. It's akin to a summing amplifier in that with identical settings sparse mixes don't exhibit the same degree of coloration as dense mixes. I think of it a 2 bus on an analog console and in that respect it is more powerful than any one console or any one summing mixer. Once you understand what it's trying to do you'll see it's doing it beautifully. It's the only plugin I use that goes on literally every single mix.