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Soundly Place It - Reverb that doesn’t ask for attention. I’ve been using a free plugin from Soundly called Place It, and it has slowly become my default reverb for dialogue. Not because it’s free. Because it stays out of the way. It’s a place it, listen, adjust, move on kind of tool. No impulse response browsing. No temptation to sculpt for the sake of sculpting. In practice, I use it when dialogue needs to sit into a space quickly and convincingly, without announcing the reverb. Small rooms, interiors, transitions where realism matters more than character. One detail I find especially useful is that it can also simulate how sound behaves when played through specific speaker systems. Phone speaker, PA, megaphone type perspectives. That’s a category of processing that’s often treated as a separate tool, but here it’s integrated and simple to reach. What makes it work is not the plugin itself, but the listening behind it. Instantly pleasing is rarely the same as believable. Knowing the difference comes from long exposure to good sound, in a consistent monitoring environment, day after day. Working in one room, with one reference, over time, does something subtle to your ears. You stop chasing effects and start recognising space. This isn’t a promotion. Not a collaboration. Not paid. Just an honest note from the middle of the work. A simple tool doing its job quietly, which is often exactly what sound design needs.