@@herbie_the_hillbillie_goat Sure. Ultimately composition, arrangement and performance are the most important elements of music - not mixing tricks. That's something that doesn't get addressed enough.

That's true, but music evolves and changes alongside technology. What people listen to in current days sounds very different to what people did back then, so if you want to be a professional music producer or engineer, you must evolve with the times. I think it's great that these plugins are revolutionizing many aspects of music production and engineering. Obviously it's easy to misuse them, but saying they are "ruining" mixing is just as silly as when people said computers were "ruining music". They are simply tools at your disposal.

The key word is "records", and if they are not too good, you need plugins like Soothe to fix the source.

@@trackaccino5724 The title is weird, but the video shows he's more talking about it ruining mixes in general.. and not even necessarily ruining it, just potentially making it less interesting and dynamic. Not "is ruining the art of mixing as a whole" lol

@@sleeeto He actually had some really interesting and inspiring things to say in the video.

Yeah this is 100% PEBCAK errors, dude needs to RTFM before he starts making tuts

Well, most of the time SmartEQ 4 does a good job but I once had a song where 5 out of 6 of the EQ curves had to be reversed by manually setting the compensation amount negative because the default behaviour of SmartEQ was to shape the tonal balance so that each track was more or less flat while a proper mix was to emphasize the peaks of each track because each instruments had their places in the spectrum and were not interfering with each other. So even if SmartEQ is taking other instances into consideration to calculate an eq curve, it doesn’t guarantee that it’s always the right thing to do.

It also kills your CPU when you add all those tracks.

​@@AndrewCCMget a better computer. Mine works just fine with it

@@fcmas ​ @fcmas Perhaps... But when a M1 can't handle something, it's a pretty heavy plugin IMHO. I have entirely too many plugins and see how others work in comparison....It works fine across a handful of channels...but more than 5 or 6 and it chokes my machine. I do have a M3 Max MBPro...but it's not my studio machine.

adel ? xDDDD

Sonible's latest Smart EQ has a great feature where it listens to all other instances in a group that you've setup. So if you have one on a drum bus, another on bass, lead etc. They listen to the output from those other channels to make better decisions. So you don't have the issue being discussed here where a plugin is making 'intelligent' decisions but only in the context of the channel it's on. It still tends to make the mix sound a little over-prcessed IMO, but at least it can be turned down a bit (or even inverted!)

Yeah, I heard it's for soothing resonances mainly from live recordings or shite samples. That's how I use it anyways.

It probably will look at the remaining resonances and start attenuating those...or just push the same ones down even further. Just put two instances on a track, no need to bounce and see.

sounds like a fun experiment. keep running it back through lol

In my experience, overusing soothe creates its own kind of harshness. Thats generally how/when I know I need to focus a smaller area or use it more subtlety. When you remove every peak of x width you're then left with new peaks of a slightly thicker width

It would be like having two instances of the vst in series

Right, intentional small moves is the way. It's not a cheat code for good sounds.

Reso allows you to be surgical in what cuts you add and how much they are attenuating, so you should be able to get some decent results. Like anything else though, it can be overdone, and at that point it will start hurting the music more than it helps it.

Using a compressor is easy. It just reduces dynamic range. The threshold just shows after how many db does the compressor activate. Usually you have a dotted/straight horizontal line going across a signal. if the signal's amplitude is above that line then the compressor is on, otherwise off. Let's say you have an acoustic guitar and you just pluck chords with your fingers. You can set the threshold in a couple of ways. Either ABOVE the body of the sound and below the peaks, which ignores the body and only compresses the initial plucks, taming the peaks and making the entire sound more "leveled" or BELOW the body, which compresses the whole thing. On vocals I like to use 2 compressors, one to level out the vocal by putting the threshold above the body but below peaks, and the other to smooth it out by putting it inside the body. Next you have ratio. Ratio (x:1) just means for every x db above the threshold you're left with only 1 db. If a sound is 10db above the threshold and the ratio is 5:1, then that sound will only have 2db left over the threshold after compression. It's 2*5db=10db, so only 2db left. Then you have attack. Attack is self explanatory: the compressor activates after x ms. Let's say that a sound shoots over the threshold and the compressor should activate, but the attack is set at 40ms. For 40ms nothing will happen and only AFTER the compressor kicks in. Best way to understand attack is if you have a really strong transient that you want to get rid of such as a palm hitting a bongo or a pick plucking a guitar string. You may not want those transients, so a quick attack time is necessary. By cutting out the transient, the body of the sound also comes forward, making the whole thing seem louder. Lastly you have release. Release is the amount of time it takes for the compression effect to fade away after a signal either stops or drops below the threshold. Hopefully this helped!

@@KavasPVP thank u so much for that. its actually a very good explanation. Because i compose mainly acoustic music, pianos violin the occasional synth, sometimes is a bit harder to find tutorials on youtube for that type of music. What are your favorite compressors? (plugins)

@@iggswanna1248 Fabfilter's C 2 is my go-to compressor. It gets the job done, it has an intuitive interface

It takes time to learn how a compressor sounds. Just play around with it and you will eventually learn what all the parameters does. And develope your taste; mix like how you want it to sound.

@@iggswanna1248 Idk where my reply went but Fabfilter's C2 is my go to compressor

If you're throwing it on anything with no inherently reason, YOU'RE the problem, not the plugin. Plugins like Soothe2 have virtually complete manual controllability. The finished sound is what YOU set it to create

yup, also EDM has heavy subgenres of dubstep, which hits -1 LUFS or even more:)))

Interesting! Yeah it's kind of like over-using popular sample packs - it's making productions sound too similar/homogenized

Me inclino mas al uso de soothe que de gulfos, no se porque me da la sensacion de que al gulfos le tienen parametros de " estandard para masters" con esas curvas, tanto que se siente que a todas las canciones las procesa igual

AI = eventual singularity = sameness= Boring. He's got a great point about these plugins and I have a feeling that if Led Zeppelin, Queen and any of the great classic rock bands used them then life would have been extra boring.

@@herbie_the_hillbillie_goat Speaking of Intelligent Processors. Thanks for the insult. :)

Fake account. You are simply a misanthrope. You have no account history. And you used a straw man to distract from the point. It would have ruined the natural energy in their songs so I'm quite happy it didn't exist then as many recordings these days are clearly over digitalized and quite boring in that regard. Now kindly go be a misanthrope somewhere else please. :) @@herbie_the_hillbillie_goat

@@herbie_the_hillbillie_goat Replies missing. LOL.