hehehaha! well, maybe I don’t know what I’m losing.
But for real, what do you actually do inside all those leopard spots? I feel like I’ll just end up selecting whatever all around them anyways… Never needed THAT much precision. Maybe I’m a grunt with no finesse?
Edit: just went and done a quick test. Took a small selection of a noise layer that had stolen a bit of dialogue I wanted. Grabbed the harmonics selection tool and carved the bit out using both 3x/70% and 4x/100%, copying them to a new layer. They had small differences in harmonics, but nothing drastic.
When summing them back to the dialogue, I found that the 4x/100% selection, while apparently more refined at first, took too much noise in the shape of harmonics, and left me with a result where I would want to EQ the high mids back in a bit. While the less refined selection took less “shaped noise” in, and left me with a more mild result, where I didn’t feel the need to EQ the high mids (which apparently were below the noise floor anyways).
So I guess there will be cases where more resolution and refinement will help, but definitely not all the time, so the 3x/60-70% usual setup remains the standard for the time being.