Now I’m super inspired to use Gulfoss. I’ve had it for a year and rarely use it because of how subtle it is but now I know exactly when and why I should use it. Thanks a ton!
You‘re such a wonderful, thoughtful and calm presenter. The way you do it ensures me, that you‘re knowing what you are talking about. And even better: You never leave that „Hey, that‘s what I think about, everything is subjective and we‘re not talking about truths“-stage. Exactly this is what the world needs way more, ME thinks. Thank you for all this, sir.
Really useful tutorial, many thanks. I’ve been bombarded with adverts for Soothe2 and I need to understand more fully what it can actually do for me. This was a huge help. Loving Gullfoss.
When I first got Gullfoss, I was very conservative with it, and, hence, I could not heart any big or important changes. When I finally stopped worrying about adding/subtracting too much, and just got goofy with Gulfoss, I started to hear what it was doing. Gulfoss can really add some magic to the sound of a mix. Caveat: Dunno about the other plugins, but Gulfoss uses alot of CPU power.
Love your work. This was very helpful. I have Gullfoss and Neutron elements v1 with it's AI "assistant" which does pretty much the same thing as far as I can tell. I wouldn't want to go back to being wtihout gullfoss. Although i don't use it on EVERY mix, I feel like I got to have it there. I think I use on on maybe 80-90% of my mixes. I use the blue on on mix busses, the brown one on individual channels and the white one on master. That's not a rule, but it seems to be a quick go-to that I like. I feel like MSpectralDynamics is missing from this conversation. It's the grand daddy of all these tools and the name says it all. It's far and away the most sophisticated of them all which is probably why it's not as popular. They tried to remedy it by having these simplified devices in the front end but the real power is on the EDIT page. It allows side-chain processing which selectively ducks only the frequencies from the side chain that are peaking. It's nuts. You don't use vanilla side-chain compression once you have this. Unfortunately, I don't have the full version as I don't have unlimited funds, but I plan on upgrading. I have their lite version with just the simplified devices - but it allows me that spectral side-chain compression so I'm happy for now. If I get more mixing gigs, then I can justify the cost.
Gulfoss is awesome for working on the master, enhancing individual tracks and balancing low end. I didn't like Soothe at first. Enhances the master a bit but not individual tracks when used on them directly, at least from my experience. Because of it's potential as a a side chain, however, Soothe 2 is the most must-have plugin I've ever used. It's basically Trackspacer 2 times 20000. Parts just wrap around each other and everything becomes clear and audible.
Tô me, if you are recording acoustic inatruments, specially in a not treated room, soothe is a must because it helps with "dynamic reductive EQing". Let's say, acoustic guitar, piano or woodwinds, the places where one might cut on the EQ might shift over time depending on notes, chords, key changes. Soothe will fix that. But yeah, that side chain is also awesome.
Really an excellent and informative look at these spectral shaping devices. Thank you very much for being so clear and articulate in explaining the capabilities of these plug-ins.
This was highly informative and simplified. I was really wondering what sets these tools apart, and this video clarified it for me. I see that none of them are a one-stop solution and that each one is very handy in it's own way. This is exactly what I needed to determine which tools to get and in what order.
Your explanation was so good on gullfoss the best I have seen can you sometime do a walk through tutorial on a Chanel strip like SSL or Shepps, as you would slowly detail them so good making it clear to follow and work with. thankyou
Great video - Subscribed! My take is that while Gullfoss and Soothe 2 have some overlapping functionality, their "tame" features operate differently. Gullfoss' tame feature is designed to control frequencies that are dominating the mix excessively. So to me it works across the full frequency spectrum to dynamically reduce problematic frequencies and increase overall clarity. The tame function in Gullfoss would seem to me to operate as part of its intelligent EQ system that makes rapid adjustments (up to 300 times per second), but so as to improve the overall BALANCE (hence the name Gullfoss) and clarity of the audio. Whereas Soothe 2, on the other hand, seems specifically designed to target and reduce resonant peaks and harsh frequencies. It seems to operate more like a dynamic resonance suppressor, identifying and attenuating problematic resonances in real-time. For me the key difference is focus: Gullfoss aims for overall spectral balance and clarity, while Soothe 2 targets specific resonances and harshness. Like you said (I think) I often use Gullfoss on full mixes or busses, and more often use Soothe 2 on individual tracks or groups, Gullfoss and Soothe can both be used vice versa. I use Gullfoss often on instruments that take up too much spectral energy in my mixes, like Synthesizers or Clean Rhythm or Acoustic Guitars. Functionality I would say Gullfoss uses a broader, more holistic approach to frequency management, while Soothe 2 provides more targeted resonance control but I'm not sure what Sculptor does and I'm very curious to know.
the reason i listen to you was because i toohave focal be 6 and ns 10m speakers, and now i notice you also have sennheiser 600s which i also use....also im from manchester and you are wearing a joy division t shirt..🖖
The best explanation on TH-cam. Keep on this way. What about TDR Nova GE plugin. Would be nice if you make video about that and explain what it's capable of.
I really like gulfoss on my master and often on groups. You've sold me on Soothe, it was really effective on your demo. I can imagine it working well on my dodgy cello recordings
Really helpful video for visualizing the best use cases between fairly similar products, especially individual track vs. 2 Bus/Mastering. I have all three of these products but can't remember the last time I used Izotope Sculptor. Your video opened up a practical use case and I'm going to knock the virtual dust off this plugin. Occasionally I'm mixing an instrument, identify a problem, have a rough idea how to fix it, but end up creating new problems. Usually it's either too much subtractive EQ or unnatural freq boost curves. I've typically chalked it up to ear fatigue preventing me from recognizing new problems in the moment, but even with fresh ears I can't always solve the puzzle. The issue is morphing an instrument into something that deviates too far away from how it should naturally sound. So, could a product attempting to mirror a well recorded natural sound of a specific instrument keep me inside the guard rails? I don't know but it's well worth investigating. I have one hopefully constructive piece of feedback. When you are switching between Bypass and Active, it would be easier for a viewer to recognize the impact if you don't speak and lower the track volume between the off/on change. I found the timing gap and volume adjustment between the off/on toggle made it difficult for my brain to track the difference.
Hey Jeff, fantastic dissection of these three rather complex plug-ins! I’ve been a Gullfoss user for years and love the tool. I’ve been curious about the others and how they compare so this was perfect information. Thanks again.
Hello Mr manchester.... Question... Why would one need to Bias the gulfoss towards recovery or taming, when one could simply go to the Recovery and taming options and make moves from there in and of themselves? I'm sure I'm missing something.... I see this as a redundancy, can you please tell me where I'm mistaken? Or if any of the experienced Gulfoss users can help me out to understand that better, Im grateful to all.
Hey thx for this!!! I have these three plug-ins and you've made it clear as to how they function. Also, what program you are using to make. this screen capture/camera capture videos please?
do you put sculptor on the snare bus or on the master bus? is that right that sculptor actually doesn't work with the rest of the mix, only with the snare? so the context sound of the whole song will change the "perfected" snare after it was processed by sculptor, right?
definitely a helpful vidoe for me and was much need clarity on what some of these plugins did since I ntoiced them being used before but wasn't sure what they were for thank you. and i really wanted something to tame the harher frequencies in some of my songs so I'lll definetely be giving sooth 2 a try thanks aagin 💚
I own Gullfoss and Smart:eq3. I wondetr if Sculptor would be redundant for me, when using Smart:eq3 on single tracks. I mean Sculptor seems to me advantageous if you have a drumloop of more percussive elements and you want to bring one specific element (rides for example) out. But when you have every instrument seperate as a source just a regular eq would do also?!
FUCK - this exactly what i needed rn, i already have gullfoss but was seeing andrew huangs take on the soothe plugin and was wondering what the difference is - thanks man
Very nice and informative video! Thank you! 🤗 I have a question: is Sculptor pretty much the same as Ozone Stabilizer (or Clarity)? Do they behave somehow similar or are they using completely different algorithms under the hood?
Very good question. Smooth Operator is the newest kid on the block and so I haven’t had that much time to play with it and report back. It’s also not one I get many questions about whereas the others, I do quite often
@@OHHnoYOUdidntMAN I wasn’t swayed by that video, especially since I’ve gotten good use out of it (and, if I recall, the video you mention got an update / retraction of sorts). I haven’t used Soothe so I can’t compare, but I have used Gulfoss and Sculptor. What issues did you run into with Smooth Operator?
I'm looking into gullfoss atm. Will try the demo today but i was wondering. If you don't boost anything and only attenuate, would it not be kind of the same as soothe2?
Could your unsynced meters issue be due to all the delay compensation from the plugins you're loading? I don't know how Logic handles it but I know that FL's UI lags pretty hard once you get a ton of plugin delay compensation going. I never understood why they don't delay the UI to match the delayed audio
Not sure. There's literally 3 tracks in this session (I think) and the only tools enabled are the ones you see on screen. Dumbfounded. I don't really mind the lag for personal projects but when video capture gets involved it's such a nuisance to put out laggy content ;( .
@@ManchesterMusic When you go to the Logic app icon and right click it and select Info, there's an option to Open in Low Resolution. This has fixed a few issues with me. In my case it was that third-party plug-ins slowed down the graphics and even slowed down Logic's response in general. But the give away, and this doesn't look to be the case with your system, was the beat counter would start moving in a jagged way. Give it a shot.
Great Video. I'm enjoying soothe2. I like the Izotope stuff; I never understood what Sculptor was doing. I appreciate your walk-through. That Lewitt mic sounds great on your vocals. What one do you have? What preamp do you use?
Hi I followed your review and got the left meter now at almost zero dB from 200 down to recovery 18 and tame 7 ,bias16 bottom meter almost sweet spot it sounds much better but if I go to bypass it's loud its busy is that correct?
I tried both and prefer soothe2. I can never get smooth operator to do exactly what i want it to do. It never sounds right to me. But with soothe2 it's a breeze.
great and clear instructor and good examples. I have Gullfoss and can't live without it anymore ;) I was checking out Soothe 2 having heard so much about it but up till now I'm not impressed it by it. It could be my hearing failing me but even in the example given here the vocals treated *with* Soothe sound harsher, more brittle to me than when it's bypassed. It's like certain lower and midrange frequency that I experience as the pleasant part of the guy's voice are suppressed , ending up with a noticeably tighter sounding but also less pleasant sounding voice. The term harshness is maybe more subjective than I thought. Must be a matter of preference. I 'm using the demo version and I haven't found the same wow feeling I got right away from using Gullfoss. I understand that the two plugins are actually different categories and actually shouldnt be compared in they way they treat the audio spectrum but it seems Soothe 2 takes more precise tweaking to get a good result. While Gullfoss adds magic (which has its own dangers and pittfalls) , Soothe for me seems to take it away along with some harsher frequency's. Does anyone else experience this? I tried a program called DSEQ and there I did find it useful right away. I wonder why Soothe 2 is such a go-to program for a lot of producers, maybe I have to give it some more time and use cases. Great video nonetheless!
Hey Jeff, great advice and video thanks, however, the background music is quite distracting although very well mixed with your dialogue I have to say......
I found your channel today and subscribed, it is great! I am about to purchase Soothe2, I have a question. Where do you put it in your signal chain? I plan on using it mostly for vocals, at least to get started. I am a Pro Tools user.
I have Ozone 9 and Neutron 4 but due to their appetites, cpu-wise, I don't use them as much as I would like. Is Gullfoss a bit more easy on the hogging? Interesting video though Cheers Alex
I've never see Gullfoss explained with such clarity
It's like the explanation itself had Gullfoss on it
Now I’m super inspired to use Gulfoss. I’ve had it for a year and rarely use it because of how subtle it is but now I know exactly when and why I should use it. Thanks a ton!
You‘re such a wonderful, thoughtful and calm presenter. The way you do it ensures me, that you‘re knowing what you are talking about. And even better: You never leave that „Hey, that‘s what I think about, everything is subjective and we‘re not talking about truths“-stage. Exactly this is what the world needs way more, ME thinks. Thank you for all this, sir.
When he said "for the script supervisors" I felt that, and dropped him the thumbs up.
I’ve got all 3 of them and your overview gives me a better understanding of them. So it’s very good for me. Thanks so much. 👍🏻👏🏻🙏🏻
Really useful tutorial, many thanks. I’ve been bombarded with adverts for Soothe2 and I need to understand more fully what it can actually do for me. This was a huge help. Loving Gullfoss.
When I first got Gullfoss, I was very conservative with it, and, hence, I could not heart any big or important changes. When I finally stopped worrying about adding/subtracting too much, and just got goofy with Gulfoss, I started to hear what it was doing. Gulfoss can really add some magic to the sound of a mix.
Caveat: Dunno about the other plugins, but Gulfoss uses alot of CPU power.
Soothe 2 really gets vocals smoothed out. Sounds great.
They’re all great for different things. These tools save me a ton of time and get better mixes
Thank you so so much for demystifying these 3 plugins. Gulfoss is a winner for me, just need it for mastering.
My pleasure
I use gullfoss but never look at meter so thanks for pointing that out 😀
Love your work. This was very helpful. I have Gullfoss and Neutron elements v1 with it's AI "assistant" which does pretty much the same thing as far as I can tell. I wouldn't want to go back to being wtihout gullfoss. Although i don't use it on EVERY mix, I feel like I got to have it there. I think I use on on maybe 80-90% of my mixes. I use the blue on on mix busses, the brown one on individual channels and the white one on master. That's not a rule, but it seems to be a quick go-to that I like.
I feel like MSpectralDynamics is missing from this conversation. It's the grand daddy of all these tools and the name says it all. It's far and away the most sophisticated of them all which is probably why it's not as popular. They tried to remedy it by having these simplified devices in the front end but the real power is on the EDIT page. It allows side-chain processing which selectively ducks only the frequencies from the side chain that are peaking. It's nuts. You don't use vanilla side-chain compression once you have this. Unfortunately, I don't have the full version as I don't have unlimited funds, but I plan on upgrading. I have their lite version with just the simplified devices - but it allows me that spectral side-chain compression so I'm happy for now. If I get more mixing gigs, then I can justify the cost.
Gulfoss is awesome for working on the master, enhancing individual tracks and balancing low end. I didn't like Soothe at first. Enhances the master a bit but not individual tracks when used on them directly, at least from my experience. Because of it's potential as a a side chain, however, Soothe 2 is the most must-have plugin I've ever used. It's basically Trackspacer 2 times 20000. Parts just wrap around each other and everything becomes clear and audible.
Tô me, if you are recording acoustic inatruments, specially in a not treated room, soothe is a must because it helps with "dynamic reductive EQing". Let's say, acoustic guitar, piano or woodwinds, the places where one might cut on the EQ might shift over time depending on notes, chords, key changes. Soothe will fix that. But yeah, that side chain is also awesome.
Really good man! The neutron is new for me. A wanna try ir now. Good vibes
Really an excellent and informative look at these spectral shaping devices. Thank you very much for being so clear and articulate in explaining the capabilities of these plug-ins.
This was highly informative and simplified. I was really wondering what sets these tools apart, and this video clarified it for me. I see that none of them are a one-stop solution and that each one is very handy in it's own way. This is exactly what I needed to determine which tools to get and in what order.
Wonderful that you're addressing this subject and thank you!!
Very, very good points. Only that crying boy used for SOOTHE2 was killing my wish to continue watching.
Love this video. I use all 3 of these on pretty much every mix is some way.
Your explanation was so good on gullfoss the best I have seen can you sometime do a walk through tutorial on a Chanel strip like SSL or Shepps, as you would slowly detail them so good making it clear to follow and work with. thankyou
Thank you for these examples, it helps a lot.
Great video - Subscribed! My take is that while Gullfoss and Soothe 2 have some overlapping functionality, their "tame" features operate differently. Gullfoss' tame feature is designed to control frequencies that are dominating the mix excessively. So to me it works across the full frequency spectrum to dynamically reduce problematic frequencies and increase overall clarity. The tame function in Gullfoss would seem to me to operate as part of its intelligent EQ system that makes rapid adjustments (up to 300 times per second), but so as to improve the overall BALANCE (hence the name Gullfoss) and clarity of the audio. Whereas Soothe 2, on the other hand, seems specifically designed to target and reduce resonant peaks and harsh frequencies. It seems to operate more like a dynamic resonance suppressor, identifying and attenuating problematic resonances in real-time. For me the key difference is focus: Gullfoss aims for overall spectral balance and clarity, while Soothe 2 targets specific resonances and harshness. Like you said (I think) I often use Gullfoss on full mixes or busses, and more often use Soothe 2 on individual tracks or groups, Gullfoss and Soothe can both be used vice versa. I use Gullfoss often on instruments that take up too much spectral energy in my mixes, like Synthesizers or Clean Rhythm or Acoustic Guitars. Functionality I would say Gullfoss uses a broader, more holistic approach to frequency management, while Soothe 2 provides more targeted resonance control but I'm not sure what Sculptor does and I'm very curious to know.
Soothe2 I mainly use for spectral ducking now-a-days via sidechaining
Great explanation of all of them, just what I needed, I'm an idiot, I've had sculptor for ages and never used it, thank you!!!
Ur not an idiot. Glad I was helpful!
the reason i listen to you was because i toohave focal be 6 and ns 10m speakers, and now i notice you also have sennheiser 600s which i also use....also im from manchester and you are wearing a joy division t shirt..🖖
The best explanation on TH-cam. Keep on this way. What about TDR Nova GE plugin. Would be nice if you make video about that and explain what it's capable of.
Hey! first time watching a vid of yours (and i watch a lot of similar content) and i really enjoyed! very helpful and clear explanation. Subscribed!
Thanks for you comment!
Which is best for dialogue?
TEOTE on the master sounds amazing!
I really like gulfoss on my master and often on groups. You've sold me on Soothe, it was really effective on your demo. I can imagine it working well on my dodgy cello recordings
Would be sooo good for cello!
I have watched a few of your videos now and still can't believe how few likes you get. Anyway, you have a new subscriber.
Cheers dude. There’s an affiliate link and Patreon in the description if you’re feeling extra supportive :). Cheers.
Really helpful video for visualizing the best use cases between fairly similar products, especially individual track vs. 2 Bus/Mastering. I have all three of these products but can't remember the last time I used Izotope Sculptor. Your video opened up a practical use case and I'm going to knock the virtual dust off this plugin. Occasionally I'm mixing an instrument, identify a problem, have a rough idea how to fix it, but end up creating new problems. Usually it's either too much subtractive EQ or unnatural freq boost curves. I've typically chalked it up to ear fatigue preventing me from recognizing new problems in the moment, but even with fresh ears I can't always solve the puzzle. The issue is morphing an instrument into something that deviates too far away from how it should naturally sound. So, could a product attempting to mirror a well recorded natural sound of a specific instrument keep me inside the guard rails? I don't know but it's well worth investigating.
I have one hopefully constructive piece of feedback. When you are switching between Bypass and Active, it would be easier for a viewer to recognize the impact if you don't speak and lower the track volume between the off/on change. I found the timing gap and volume adjustment between the off/on toggle made it difficult for my brain to track the difference.
Thats not helpful at all. I'm glad he said the a b comparison. I couldn't tell when he was changing it
Hey Jeff, fantastic dissection of these three rather complex plug-ins! I’ve been a Gullfoss user for years and love the tool. I’ve been curious about the others and how they compare so this was perfect information. Thanks again.
This was really useful. I have beem trying to figure out the differences. Thank you!
Excellent video! I've been watching different videos about Gullfoss in particular. This is the best one. Subscribed!
Welcome aboard!
Thanks 🙏 Really we’ll presented and the most succinct overview of these tools I have seen.
Great contrast & compare... Thanks!
Thanks for the video, is there any plans for releasing video about Ozone 10 Stabilizer vs Sculptor / Soothe / Gullfoss ?
great explanation
An amazing vidéo , clear , simple , thanks man !
Nice job !!
Glad you liked it!
What is this song tho?????? It's so good
Great explanations on all three. Thanks!
Hello Mr manchester.... Question... Why would one need to Bias the gulfoss towards recovery or taming, when one could simply go to the Recovery and taming options and make moves from there in and of themselves? I'm sure I'm missing something.... I see this as a redundancy, can you please tell me where I'm mistaken? Or if any of the experienced Gulfoss users can help me out to understand that better, Im grateful to all.
p.s. beautiful song by the way, Kudos to the creator
And this "Boost" Function is kinda looking to my eyes and sounding to my ears like a nice version of a tilt EQ? Wonder if I got that right....
Great explanation, that it's like 100 compressors across the EQ spectrum. Very cool.
Hey thx for this!!! I have these three plug-ins and you've made it clear as to how they function. Also, what program you are using to make. this screen capture/camera capture videos please?
Best Gullfos tut🤩
In Gullfoss if we can adjust tame and recover separately then what is the purpose of bias?
Cool reveal video. Thanks.
do you put sculptor on the snare bus or on the master bus? is that right that sculptor actually doesn't work with the rest of the mix, only with the snare? so the context sound of the whole song will change the "perfected" snare after it was processed by sculptor, right?
and now there's also bloom... from oeksound. and Q4 from fabfilter. which one to choose haha
Bravo! Thanks so much for this, Geoff.
Excellent Info - Cheers! 👍👍👍
Glad it was helpful!
Great video, especially the Gullfoss part...thank you
definitely a helpful vidoe for me and was much need clarity on what some of these plugins did since I ntoiced them being used before but wasn't sure what they were for thank you. and i really wanted something to tame the harher frequencies in some of my songs so I'lll definetely be giving sooth 2 a try thanks aagin 💚
I learned a lot from this video
Hi, have you encountered Smart EQ 4 by sonible?
Not yet!
@@ManchesterMusic hope you can check it out as well. I think It's pretty similar to the izotope you showed us
Great video, ty
hey man, youre great. thanks for your tutorials
I own Gullfoss and Smart:eq3. I wondetr if Sculptor would be redundant for me, when using Smart:eq3 on single tracks. I mean Sculptor seems to me advantageous if you have a drumloop of more percussive elements and you want to bring one specific element (rides for example) out. But when you have every instrument seperate as a source just a regular eq would do also?!
I’d say you’ve got more than enough tools for what you’re working on. You can always demo and see if you prefer Sculptors results.
Are you the narrator from the "What’s New in iZotope RX 9" video?
Asking for a friend?
I work for Soundwide, yes.
Do you have any video without musical background?
Great video! Thank you!
What an awesome video! Thank you!
Unveil, from Zynaptiq, is awesome too
FUCK - this exactly what i needed rn, i already have gullfoss but was seeing andrew huangs take on the soothe plugin and was wondering what the difference is - thanks man
Very helpful and well-presented, thanks.
this is a great explanation
Thanks man
You're a wonderful teacher. Thanks
Appreciate that man. Thank you.
Worth adding DSEQ to this list also its a kind of secret weapon that allows more precision than Soothe
Very nice and informative video! Thank you! 🤗 I have a question: is Sculptor pretty much the same as Ozone Stabilizer (or Clarity)? Do they behave somehow similar or are they using completely different algorithms under the hood?
is that an aj1 mic?
What about Smooth Operator by Baby Audio?
And yeah, an amazing video.. Keep up the good work💪
Absolutely killer video. Thanks, buddy!
Thanks Caroline
What about Baby Audio’s Smooth Operator?
Very good question. Smooth Operator is the newest kid on the block and so I haven’t had that much time to play with it and report back. It’s also not one I get many questions about whereas the others, I do quite often
I saw a video that WhiteSeaStudio on it. Honestly, imo, it's just a crappier Soothe/Gulfoss. Like really crappy...
@@OHHnoYOUdidntMAN I wasn’t swayed by that video, especially since I’ve gotten good use out of it (and, if I recall, the video you mention got an update / retraction of sorts).
I haven’t used Soothe so I can’t compare, but I have used Gulfoss and Sculptor. What issues did you run into with Smooth Operator?
I'm looking into gullfoss atm. Will try the demo today but i was wondering. If you don't boost anything and only attenuate, would it not be kind of the same as soothe2?
Side chain soothe never thought of that interesting and just adjust the send but set soothe to a medium setting like reverb delay
Could your unsynced meters issue be due to all the delay compensation from the plugins you're loading? I don't know how Logic handles it but I know that FL's UI lags pretty hard once you get a ton of plugin delay compensation going. I never understood why they don't delay the UI to match the delayed audio
Not sure. There's literally 3 tracks in this session (I think) and the only tools enabled are the ones you see on screen. Dumbfounded. I don't really mind the lag for personal projects but when video capture gets involved it's such a nuisance to put out laggy content ;( .
@@ManchesterMusic When you go to the Logic app icon and right click it and select Info, there's an option to Open in Low Resolution. This has fixed a few issues with me. In my case it was that third-party plug-ins slowed down the graphics and even slowed down Logic's response in general. But the give away, and this doesn't look to be the case with your system, was the beat counter would start moving in a jagged way. Give it a shot.
Great Video. I'm enjoying soothe2. I like the Izotope stuff; I never understood what Sculptor was doing. I appreciate your walk-through. That Lewitt mic sounds great on your vocals. What one do you have? What preamp do you use?
Hey there it’s this one: th-cam.com/video/5artxvSD-o0/w-d-xo.html pre amp is my Apollo 8.
i would like to see a comparison between Soothe, DSEQ3 and Voxengo TEOTE
there is a dseq3?! 2 is in use all the time
@@marudelel yes
YES.. please do a comparison between Soothe, DSEQ3 and Voxengo TEOTE !
I feel like split eq deserves to be in this comparison as well. Judging by his shirt he's probably already done some comparisons of it tho
thanks dude
Great tutorial
Thank you!
Hi I followed your review and got the left meter now at almost zero dB from 200 down to recovery 18 and tame 7 ,bias16 bottom meter almost sweet spot it sounds much better but if I go to bypass it's loud its busy is that correct?
I notice somes artifacts on Soothe2 but maybe is only me or maybe settings parameters in deep.
what about smooth operator vs soothe 2? and soothe 2 vs spiff?
I tried both and prefer soothe2. I can never get smooth operator to do exactly what i want it to do. It never sounds right to me. But with soothe2 it's a breeze.
Why u ignore Sonible SmartEQ? :)
is it free
@@AI-Consultant smartEQ? no
thanks bro..very helpfull
Thank you for this.
spiff tut please🙏
Seems like standard eqs and compressors are not useful anymore. Explain me why I'm wrong
great and clear instructor and good examples. I have Gullfoss and can't live without it anymore ;) I was checking out Soothe 2 having heard so much about it but up till now I'm not impressed it by it. It could be my hearing failing me but even in the example given here the vocals treated *with* Soothe sound harsher, more brittle to me than when it's bypassed. It's like certain lower and midrange frequency that I experience as the pleasant part of the guy's voice are suppressed , ending up with a noticeably tighter sounding but also less pleasant sounding voice. The term harshness is maybe more subjective than I thought. Must be a matter of preference. I 'm using the demo version and I haven't found the same wow feeling I got right away from using Gullfoss. I understand that the two plugins are actually different categories and actually shouldnt be compared in they way they treat the audio spectrum but it seems Soothe 2 takes more precise tweaking to get a good result. While Gullfoss adds magic (which has its own dangers and pittfalls) , Soothe for me seems to take it away along with some harsher frequency's. Does anyone else experience this? I tried a program called DSEQ and there I did find it useful right away. I wonder why Soothe 2 is such a go-to program for a lot of producers, maybe I have to give it some more time and use cases. Great video nonetheless!
How about an update with adding Equalizer by Wavesfactory?
There’s an idea!
Soothe is used for mixing or mastering?
Can be used for both
Pro-MB is my FABorite
Hey Jeff, great advice and video thanks, however, the background music is quite distracting although very well mixed with your dialogue I have to say......
I found your channel today and subscribed, it is great! I am about to purchase Soothe2, I have a question. Where do you put it in your signal chain? I plan on using it mostly for vocals, at least to get started. I am a Pro Tools user.
I have Ozone 9 and Neutron 4 but due to their appetites, cpu-wise, I don't use them as much as I would like. Is Gullfoss a bit more easy on the hogging?
Interesting video though
Cheers
Alex
hahaa unfortunately nah
Very helpful!
"when will it be enough" That's what I found myself asking after about 10 plays of that part lol. Good explanations though
What mic are you using?
Lewitt LCT 540S. I did a video on it here: th-cam.com/video/5artxvSD-o0/w-d-xo.html