Izotope Ozone Spectral Shaper & Neutron Sculptor vs soothe 2 + Others

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Izotope Ozone Spectral Shaper & Neutron Sculptor vs soothe 2 + Others

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I review Izotope Ozone Spectral Shaper & Neutron Sculptor, and I compare Izotope spectral balancing solutions to soothe2, plus some other options, including Smooth Operator.
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-----Timestamps----
0:00 Intro
0:21 Izotope Neutron 3 Sculptor - Walkthrough
0:38 Sculptor on Guitar
3:08 True Bypass Setting - On or Off?
5:24 Can you recreate Sculptor with dynamic FabFilter EQ?
7:51 TBProAudio DSEQ vs Izotope
8:07 Baby Audio Smooth Operator on Guitar
8:32 Oeksound soothe 2 on Guitar
8:55 Izotope Ozone Spectral Shaper
9:41 Spectral Shaper on Vocal Mix
12:10 Comapring Cubase Multiband Compressor on Vocal
13:35 Smooth Operator on Vocal
13:58 Oeksound soothe 2 on Vocal
14:18 Conclusion
14:52 Caveat for Beginners
-----Links-----
Izotope Sculptor: www.izotope.com/en/products/n...
Izotope Spectral Shaper: www.izotope.com/en/products/o...
Oeksound soothe2: oeksound.com/plugins/soothe2/
Baby Audio Smooth Operator: babyaud.io/smooth-operator-pl...
TBProAudio DSEQ: www.tbproaudio.de/products/dseq
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@palebluedotstudios 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! What do you guys think of Izotope Sculptor & Spectral Shaper? Let me know in the comments below!

@ThisIsOnesto 3 жыл бұрын

Woah this was a really helpful video. I love how you quickly throw in other little tips too. Based off this video I think I'm gonna stick with Soothe 2 when it comes to eliminating harshness and then use Sculptor whenever I feel like I need help shaping the tone. One thing I'll add is that based on the title I expected the video to only be about what the title was about so bringing up smooth operator and other plugins, although helpful isn't what I was expecting or even wanting to know about. But of course thanks again!

@palebluedotstudios 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it! Yes, that's fair. I might tweak the title to better fit it. But you know, you gotta keep it short! Haha. Thanks for watching!

@SuperIZL 2 жыл бұрын

I find most izotope products disappointing TBH. Just because the competition is so good. When the competition wasn't as good as now well I was a fanboy back then... Hope my opinion helps

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

@@SuperIZL Your opinion always helps! I think you make a good point. They are an industry leader, especially in spectral audio correction, but there are many competitors now. Bertom Denoiser and Accentize DeRoom come to mind. Thanks for watching!

@SuperIZL 2 жыл бұрын

@@palebluedotstudios thank you making the content! Subbed

@oscarpatxot659 3 жыл бұрын

In sculptor you can adjust the band the plugin acts on. That way you could take care of the 3k resonance you wanted to.

@zyguli 2 жыл бұрын

Yes. This is very disappointing, as other plugins are processing limited bandwidth, which makes the comparison flawed.

@jlaudamusic5190 2 жыл бұрын

Yes exactly

@cerebrostudios Жыл бұрын

omg thanks Oscar! I'm very grateful you posted this, I was kinda disappointed with Sculptor because of the lack of precision... till I read your comment!

@palebluedotstudios Жыл бұрын

Cheers! Thanks for pointing this out! I wish it had more bands, though...

@traveler263 Жыл бұрын

man I was looking for such a comparison for such a long time. thanks for this

@palebluedotstudios Жыл бұрын

My absolute pleasure! Glad to be of help. I'm going to review Izotope Ozone's Stabilizer very soon. Stay tuned. Thanks for watching!

@PaulMDiaz 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for comparing these! Great and informative as hell!

@palebluedotstudios 3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, Paul! I'm so glad you enjoyed it, and thanks very much for watching!

@ThePdeHav 2 жыл бұрын

Chanced upon your website serendipitously; always refreshing to find a sensible voice amid the KZfaq rabble. It often happens that synchronicity plays a part here. I was wondering what Izotope was doing under the hood of Sculptor recently. I'm ambivalent about these types of plugins. Yes, I did buy the Izotope bundle in the Black Friday Sales. Needed to gear match with a band on an album project so I picked it up during pre-production. The singer has a specific bespoke preset he uses. By week two it was off the Vox chain. Enough said. Merry Christmas, from London.

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers, my friend! Always great to hear from the U.K.! For me, I find the one thing that really sticks around from Izotope for me is the RX stuff. I know they rose through the ranks initially from the Ozone mastering suite, but their spectral correction stuff for audio post became their true killer feature! Glad you found the channel and enjoyed it! Stay tuned for more!

@ThisIsOnesto 3 жыл бұрын

I can't wait to check this out. I was actually wondering about this already! I have both already, but hopefully I'll find out if there's difference or if I should just stick with one or the other.

@palebluedotstudios 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Onesto! I'm glad you're looking forward to it! I tested them out on guitar and vocals, I tried to keep it concise. Hopefully enough information to help you decide!

@AlloyedFrequencies 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for showing all this stuff

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

Literally my pleasure. Thanks for watching!

@jimsanger 8 ай бұрын

Great comparison and video

@palebluedotstudios 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so very much! That means a lot; glad to help out. Thanks for watching, cheers!

@luvitluvitbaby 2 жыл бұрын

I have all of these. I went a bit plug-in crazy over the last 2 years when I put together my studio for the first time. I’m still learning.

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, it's hard to resist, eh? Haha. It's actually good that you have them all, you can find the one that works best for you! Let me know what you liked the best. Thanks for watching!

@luvitluvitbaby 2 жыл бұрын

@@palebluedotstudios Will do. 😊

@Shane-zo4mg 2 жыл бұрын

Wow I really enjoyed this video! Definitely a new subscriber.

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed! And welcome aboard! Thanks for watching :)

@enigmazach 2 жыл бұрын

Spectral Shaper is my go-to for vocals, guitars, and keys. But in conjunction with a dynamic EQ, it's powerful.

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

Good idea. You can definitely do a lot with both! No reason to use just one tool.

@xantux 3 жыл бұрын

soothe does an amazing job! For the izotope sculptor I would have loved to hear it with a lowpass enabled ( I think you can drag a thing from the left to only let it affect the mids/ highs)

@palebluedotstudios 3 жыл бұрын

Good call! Yes, someone else pointed out the pass-filter handles that I missed. That can help control the signal more!

@michaelnorth3785 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for letting me know that Spectral Shaper existed ... I have 9 Advance and use a ton of their tools but somehow overlooked this one ( :

@palebluedotstudios 10 ай бұрын

I'm so happy I could help! Sometimes I think Izotope makes it tough to discover some of their plugins, because they name everything with "Ozone..." at the front, and they all look the same! Haha. Just a thought. Again, glad you found that. thanks for watching!

@ThroughFallenEyes 3 жыл бұрын

I have Neutron and from using it for almost a year now, I usually use it in a similar way. Tame a problem resonance or for thickening up/thinning out things like a poorly recorded kick, overheads or piano. I find sculptor is surprisingly good on brass and for adding some life to high string arrangements. Sometimes it just sounds horrendously bad though. I never spend more than a minute or two with it. If its not in the ballpark of what I'm after and I cant quickly tweak it, I find it best to abandon ship and go the traditional route of taming the problems.

@palebluedotstudios 3 жыл бұрын

I think that's a great rule of thumb: if you can't quickly dial it in, it's probably not the best tool! Great advice. Thanks for watching!

@oiwagner 2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget that you can just insert various instances of Spectral Shaper. Such as one for 3k-8k upper harsh stuff and another for 800k-2k nasty midrange peaks.

@palebluedotstudios Жыл бұрын

You could! I would just be concerned about overprocessing, i.e., you have spectral crossovers overlapping. Could lead to phasing or pre-ringing. But that's a great idea: if it sounds good, it is good! Cheers!

@joshd265 3 жыл бұрын

Yay! Thanks for this 😀

@palebluedotstudios 3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! I'm so glad you enjoyed it, much more to come! Thanks for watching!!

@michaelharmon8731 2 жыл бұрын

First, thank you for making this video. It's very helpful and I definitely learned a few things. Since you asked if you missed anything, there is one; Gulfoss.

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video! And thanks for your feedback. I did do a video on Gullfoss! You can find it here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jq1_mJdpsNSlYYU.html

@hopetea7670 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video - never been here before. You've explained Sculptor better than Izotope! I have Neutron 3 Advanced (includes Sculptor) RX9 and Soothe2. I have to say the latter is class, but as you suggest, if you use your ears Sculptor can get you off to a good start.

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I would totally agree with this. If you've shelled out for an Neutron, then you probably don't need to shell out for soothe2 if you take the time to tune it in. Thanks for watching!

@arilotringer 3 жыл бұрын

Great! Just the video I was waiting for! Very interesting indeed. I could certainly hear the differences. Oddly enough, on the last example with the female vocals when you put the soothe 2 video, to me it sounded like it was doing some weird shifting of frequencies, didn't sound as natural, only on that example. By the way, Sculptor also has handles at the sides, they're not too obvious and you can easily miss them, but you can also narrow the frequencies, just like spectral shaper, one high cut and one low cut. You could've probably gotten a better result with those, since you mentioned you felt sculptor was muffling the rest of the frequencies too much. Spectral Shaper has also a tone control which you could've tried also since you mentioned it needed some more eq'ing. Great comparison , I guess they are all similar technologies but different if you get what I mean hehe. Thanks for the comparison!

@palebluedotstudios 3 жыл бұрын

You are most welcome! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I did completely miss the handles on Sculptor-my bad! Thanks for pointing that out. And you're right about soothe2! The example had pretty strong settings, and one has to be careful with these spectral correction plugins. Too much, and you have something that sounds...off. You're just listening to digital FFT adjustments. As for Spectral Shaper, whoops. I think I did neglect the tone. I had it in the script but I might have cut it. For what it's worth, I found the tone control to be a little too basic, but did help sometimes. All in all, they're good plugins that get better with time and familiarity! Thanks for watching!!

@arilotringer 3 жыл бұрын

@@palebluedotstudios let's what we can expect from the next version of Ozone or Neutron, I think they could really improve on those based on what the competition is doing, should be interesting. And yeah, I got those tools, this video helped me understand their uses and strengths better, so thanks a lot man! 🔥 🎶

@palebluedotstudios 3 жыл бұрын

That is the exact intent of my videos! And also to educate myself, and you guys help to educate me further on them! I'm looking forward to the next iteration of these, especially with their embrace of AI.

@DarrenCampbellmusic 2 жыл бұрын

Is Ozone Spectral Shaper designed to do the same job as Soothe 2? IE Cutting Harsh frequencies?

@BenCaesar 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like gullfoss is also amazing at smoothing and giving a sheen to audio. Will look into soothe2 if its any different- Edit: just watched your gullfoss video, wasn't really a side by side comparison but still a great review!

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Yes, they not quite the same thing. You're right: I would say "sheen" would be more the domain of Gullfoss, and soothe2 is more about pure correction. Thanks for watching!

@frankherrgott Жыл бұрын

Loved the comparison. Thank you. What do you think about DSEQ as you didn't mention it in the conclusion (as it is more affordable than Soothe2)?

@palebluedotstudios Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video. I actually love and use DSEQ all the time! I think it's better than soothe2 is some ways. You can watch my review (with soothe2 comparison) here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bZmpi9VhudSRo40.html

@ProfessorSaibertin 3 жыл бұрын

Thx for the video. I recently got the Smooth Operator and I really like it. Low CPU.

@palebluedotstudios 3 жыл бұрын

Great to hear! Yes, it's very well-optimized. Watch out for the latency, if that's a consideration! Thanks for watching!

@cheapspace 2 жыл бұрын

soothe 2 nailed it to me it didn't just remove that problem frequencies it also remove that odd almost double track sound in the lower registers it really did sound smoother. Yeah im getting that for sure

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

Good call. Yes, the more I use soothe, the more I hear it effortlessly clear up problems. DSEQ is the only one that comes close. Cheers!

@Bronwyn031 Жыл бұрын

On that harsh note in the vocal, Soothe 2 nailed it perfectly! I've seen enough to justify the crazy price OekSound is asking for Soothe 2. You may rest friend... your job here is done.

@palebluedotstudios Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Put it this way: the video game company I work for picked up soothe 2 because it helped so much with voiceovers being recorded during lockdown at home studios. It's an indispensable tool, if you can handle the price. Thanks so much for watching!

@Bronwyn031 Жыл бұрын

@@palebluedotstudios I went and purchased my license right after writing that comment. Story time! I have a track that I've been working off and on with for almost a full year. This track is in the style of I guess ska jazz or big-band pop. Lots of brass horns and a really distorted piano lead. Like a resonance nightmare to eq through. I've tried using a plethora of EQ plugins trying to isolate the harshness of these instruments to no avail; including Gulfoss, FabFilter's Q3 and even Ozone 10 Advance's spectral shaper. I am not joking when I say, Soothe 2 on DEFAULT removed the resonance harshness in my mix. I laughed out loud when I heard what it did to that mix. 🥲 I played around with its settings and got the mix FINALLY where I like it. They should've sent a poet instead, ... so beautiful... so so beautiful.

@palebluedotstudios Жыл бұрын

@@Bronwyn031 Wow, what an amazing story! I guess that's why soothe 2 is the industry standard! It can be really worth it to spend a bit on a plugin that saves you hours and hours and HOURS of work. Thanks for sharing your experience! :)

@Beatsbasteln 2 жыл бұрын

in this example i liked the sound of sculptor most. yes, it did not do anything against your 3k resonance, but i really liked the way it interpreted this signal. it gave the guitar a good body that had a shimmering tone to it. i'd say that is the sweet spot of the guitar actually. also liked how it rolled off the highend softly. i usually like soothe most, but in this example not so much. however i think it's because you used it in a way that i wouldn't use it. for example you did not use the lowcut on the pre-eq. i know oeksound did their best to extend the spectral range to the lower frequencies in soothe2 compared to soothe1 but i still think that's not its strongest selling point. cutting resonances off lowmids can easily remove body on a signal. dseq and smooth operator did almost nothign in your example. maybe you'd need to turn it up some more? comparing anything with cubase' built-in multiband compressor is pointless btw. it is one of the most ugly sounding mb compressors i ever used so it can barely be referenced to any proper plugin.

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the detailed response! I did like Sculptor on the guitar too, but you are right: I believe I neglected to find the high-/low-shelf filters on this plugin! DSEQ and Smooth Operator were a little more subtle. And yes, Cubase's default multiband is not the best in the world! Maybe next time I'll use Fabfilter MB. Thanks so much for watching!

@wrigna1 2 жыл бұрын

Which plugin is best? Your videos leaves us with more questions than answers.

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

I like to leave it up to the viewer, but I think DSEQ is the best out of all of these, as it provides much more control over the EQ filters. And I find the Izotope stuff gets artificial-sounding more quickly.

@dusanpaulovic1862 2 жыл бұрын

I have iZotope Sculptor, Sonible SmartEQ 3 and also MSpectralDynamics and in most cases I combine those, but MSpectralDynamics can do all of that except it does not have any profiles, but for spectral processing it is best I had ever have

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

I forgot about MSpectralDynamics! I am going to have to check that out, and do a video on it! Thanks for that!

@crowkangi 2 жыл бұрын

MSpectralDynamics is awesome but im sure that I barely know how to use it. I usually just mess around with presets.

@dusanpaulovic1862 2 жыл бұрын

@@crowkangi It's usage is not as straightforward as other tools but in addition you have much more control over result, because you can define different attack, release, EQ and threshold for whole spectrum, so you can make practically spectral magic. I agree that using presets is simpler, but once you find how it works and what it does, you can find in it features provided in separate plugins which are really expensive, like maximizer, flattener, de-esser, compressor, expander, all is possible, I would use it on all my tracks, if I would have enough CPU and GPU power for it. I must say that for long time I was un-supporter of the Melda plugins due ugly UI, but once I tried trials, I loved it and bought many of them. Funny part is that now they have nice UI and I want to stay on old one as I am already used to it.

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

@@crowkangi Cool. I'll have to test it out and do a video on it! Thanks!

@poltergeist_16 9 ай бұрын

@@palebluedotstudioswhen??))

@Noldy__ 9 ай бұрын

I have Ozone 9 and was thinking of getting Soothe 2 but I can't afford it so Spectral Shaper it is for now for me

@palebluedotstudios 8 ай бұрын

Yeah, can't go wrong with Spectral Shaper! soothe is really expensive, so you have to really need it too. Cheers!

@DarrenCampbellmusic 2 жыл бұрын

Can Izotope's Ozone Spectral Shaper do what Soothe 2 can do for cutting out harsh frequencies? Or is soothe 2 more efficient?

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

It is doing something similar to soothe2, but Spectral Shaper is a little more like a traditional dynamic EQ that operates in a single, specified range, then adjusts the FFT spectral bands in that range only. Whereas soothe2 starts plotting and applying dynamic spectral processing right away, using a complex engine that tries to determine the spectral balance and with things like "phase vocoder and equalization". Both soothe and DSEQ offer much more EQ nodes and control over the sound. It's hard to say for sure because they all have their proprietary processing happening under the hood, but I would say Spectral Shaper is nice to have but limited. soothe2 or DSEQ will get you there more quickly and handle more than one resonance at a time.

@DarrenCampbellmusic 2 жыл бұрын

@@palebluedotstudios Brilliant, thanks very much for the in depth reply, appreciate your time!

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

@@DarrenCampbellmusic My pleasure! Thanks so much for watching!

@NUANCEZONRISE Жыл бұрын

U sounded like the calmest plugin psychologist when u said it's cheap as hell.

@palebluedotstudios Жыл бұрын

That should be my new profession: plugin psychologist...

@NUANCEZONRISE Жыл бұрын

@@palebluedotstudios I love it!! Ur videos are good references. Much appreciated 💯💃🏽

@palebluedotstudios Жыл бұрын

@@NUANCEZONRISE Cheers! Thank you. Always great to hear! :)

@cjgoeson Жыл бұрын

That vocal has the all the sound of a tiny room

@palebluedotstudios Жыл бұрын

Good call. That's a scratch vocal!

@Reggi_Sample Жыл бұрын

I wonder how Stabilizer stacks against soothe 2

@palebluedotstudios Жыл бұрын

I'm working on that video now! Cheers!

@koreanchinesejapanesegtr Жыл бұрын

maybe you can chain many sculptor to get that multiband?

@palebluedotstudios Жыл бұрын

Technically, you could. But remember that you’re adding spectral processing on top of spectral processing, with potential phasing and artefact issues. But it’s worth a shot, especially with really tough recordings! Cheers!

@koreanchinesejapanesegtr Жыл бұрын

@@palebluedotstudios yeah thx !

@jamesclarkemusic9105 3 жыл бұрын

Soothe2 sounds like it removes the nasty frequencies whilst keeping everything nice and bright. All the others seem to just dull the sound.

@palebluedotstudios 3 жыл бұрын

There's a reason why it's the gold standard! Thanks for watching!

@palebluedotstudios Жыл бұрын

@@stephenr2434 It sure does! 💰

@gabrieljr1422 2 жыл бұрын

Which Cubase is this

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

This video would be Cubase 11. Cheers!

@denisbravo Жыл бұрын

man, I almost died while watching and listening to these ~2500 hertz

@palebluedotstudios Жыл бұрын

Oh? Was it bad at ~2500 hz? Thanks for watching!

@Musictron 3 жыл бұрын

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾

@palebluedotstudios 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! 😃

@klekrfaqer2114 3 жыл бұрын

Good one! Just a constructive remark: the timestamp links call Spectral Shaper incorrectly Spectral _Sculptor_. The cause is clear, and it doesn't really matter, but you might want to correct them for the sake of clarity. Should you decide to do so, feel free to delete this comment!

@palebluedotstudios 3 жыл бұрын

Oh, thank you for catching it! I love it when viewers find things like that, sometimes all these "S" names get mixed up in my spectral domain! Thanks for watching!

@Fartinhalerr Жыл бұрын

I already have spectral shaper, it didn't seem like soothe 2 is worth the price for me personally. I'd rather spend the money on other plugins like vocalign, But if I had neither I'd go with soothe 2.

@palebluedotstudios Жыл бұрын

Makes sense-Vocalign is a killer tool. Ozone has a new Stabilizer plugin that does more of the same, plus DSEQ...a lot of options out there now. And Pantera rules!

@GoutamSingh Жыл бұрын

OZONE ISOTOPE..,. ALWAYS 🤗

@palebluedotstudios Жыл бұрын

Ozone rules! I'm going to review Ozone 10 soon. Thanks so much for watching!

@mache3984 2 жыл бұрын

I'm kind of confused why it seems that just about all of the engineers I see reviewing plugins or giving tutorials never seem to deess their audio on their videos. It is piecing. Maybe that's an engineer thing? Seriously wondering why.

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

Hmmm. It is a rather subjective thing, but I can say on my end, I have a very strong "esch" that microphones pick up on, and can be hard to control. I try to avoid any boosting at all, but I may have been adding a touch of exciter back in those days. Probably too much. Thanks for watching!

@LaMusicaEsTuDios Жыл бұрын

Better recordings have better outcome when processing... Law of nature. 😉

@palebluedotstudios Жыл бұрын

The wisest thing I've heard all week!

@spetheofmusic 11 ай бұрын

i thought i was the only one who didnt like the ui of ozone

@palebluedotstudios 11 ай бұрын

Good to hear! I find the preset system really annoying. Cheers!

@spetheofmusic 11 ай бұрын

@@palebluedotstudios true hehe

@rionvalet 2 жыл бұрын

Soothe 2 winner

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

I think so too. Thanks for watching!

@iamjiroe 2 жыл бұрын

Soothe2 is a different tool than Neutron Sculptor. If you record Distorted Guitars, you are supposed to use Soothe immediately after a hpf in the chain to remove resonances.. and Sculptor after your EQs to help get a better eq curve, as sculptor is not a Resonance suppressor like soothe2.. it analyses your audio and alters the frequency spectrum and knows how a distorted guitar is supposed to sound (cause you select the profile) and alters the eq curve in a way that matches their profile. A similar tool would not be Spectral Shaper.. but "Match EQ"..

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

@@iamjiroe That's a good point. I don't mean these comparisons to be apples-to-apples, more like these are all plugins exploring EQ correction in the spectral domain. But you're right: smart:EQ and Sculptor would be a closer match, for example (no pun). Thanks!

@mcadder 3 жыл бұрын

DSEQ3 sounds the best to me. The price is also better. Im considering a buy but gotta compare against soothe some more.

@palebluedotstudios 3 жыл бұрын

It is exceptionally powerful, cheaper, and I found it better than the others on many occasions. Everyone should consider it when looking for spectral balancers! Thanks for watching!

@hjorte. 2 жыл бұрын

HOFA IQ-Series DeEsser persistently creates better sounding results here compared to iZotope Spectral Shaper.

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting! HOFA stuff is world-class, but I haven't tried it in years. I'll check it out, thanks. And you say it's good for this type of correction?

@hjorte. 2 жыл бұрын

@@palebluedotstudios I will give you that it may not cover all the tasks shown here, but for the tasks I typically have, even on full mixes, its BUS mode is performing very well and sounds really good.

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

@@hjorte. I will definitely check it out! I've had my eyes on some HOFA stuff for awhile. I do wish they'd improve those designs, though...thanks!

@jorgevasconcelosmadetomove 2 жыл бұрын

SOOTHE 2 IS TOO EXPENSIVE

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

I agree, I feel it's a little too high. Cheaper alternatives: DSEQ, Smooth Operator, and bx_refinement.

@dougleydorite 3 жыл бұрын

Worth watching just for the punch clowns comment

@palebluedotstudios 3 жыл бұрын

Haha! Thanks for catching that! Not a fan of those preset menus... And thanks for watching!

@el-bov8034 2 жыл бұрын

I found the comment to be problematic, as it implies that one need be really aggravated before it's deemed justifiable to punch clowns ;)

@thirdeyetye 4 ай бұрын

not a rule just the way I like to use it but I used sculptor to alter shape of my tone, either darker or brighter for a feel not a fix, but its cool cuz theyre ai algorithm make it unique to its sonic character. I use it light barely go big moves on the amount knob. its great for it oek bloom is like its finer sister your gonna marry her when yall meet really fun plug and way more and better control over the tone and taming mistake like harshness just not as good as soothe

@palebluedotstudios 4 ай бұрын

That's a great way of putting that (with a creative metaphor too 😅)! I agree that big moves are rarely needed, and looking at it like adding "colour" is a great way of using these tools. Cheers, and thanks for watching!

@joost3783 2 жыл бұрын

I hate the izotope mix/mastering assistant on soo many layers. Stopped using izotope almost entirely at this point. There are just better alternatives out there and If you know what you're doing the assistant is completely useless

@palebluedotstudios 2 жыл бұрын

I agree about the assistant. I don't find it much better than doing it myself. There's no replacing good technique! But it can be a good starting point for some. Thanks for watching!