I applaud the company for taking your criticism to heart and actually delivering. The website looks like a "producers hate this trick"-scam though.

Really honorable to admit the mistakes and take feedback seriously enough to do something with it. I can appreciate that.

I love these snake oil videos that come back around when the developers take time to listen to your input. I said it before and I'll keep on saying it, we need YOU to make more snake oil videos because the industry listens to you. It's a win-win for the music making community. You're my go-to for plug-in reviews. You're sincere in what you do and that makes all the difference. Cheers.

I would LOVE to see you take courses and snake oil review them!

Of all the plugin companies, I didn’t except this from RPS. Good job to them!

Quite like the technical demonstration of the oversampling in action. You explain technical aspects pretty clearly.

Yes! Please review Courses! Monthly Courses, Nail the Mix, Mixbus TV, Produce like a Pro, etc. - I'd love to get some thoughts, insight and comparisons!

please do a snake oil video on courses. i've actually been thinking a lot about at what point do you start reaching diminishing returns in terms of exchanging time for learning through tutorials and stuff vs actually practicing.

Hey, Long time fan. I love the snake oil and review videos. But what I really enjoy is explanations and demonstrations of what terms and things actually are. "Oversampling" for example in this video. I would really enjoy to see and I think many producers, mix & mastering engineers would benefit from your knowledge and expertise in the field. The course snake oil is also a fantastic idea. Thanks and keep up the great work!

Thanks for explaining oversampling in such way! Much obliged sir!

To RPS and White Sea, DUDES....I demo'd and am buying for sure! The new features made this plugin a must-have for me. It's already all over my latest mix. The new features allowed me to be extremely subtle yet impactful with the settings. It's not a special effect for me- it's now part of my core saturation chain. Congrats on making this plugin GREAT and thank you for making my mixes better going forward!

One of the best quick/visual explanations of what going past the Nyquist limit means and does to audio!

Dang I actually learned something new from this episode!!! The oversampling/foldback issues was unknown to me. Time for me to hit the books and educate myself! Thanks mate👍

Automatic gain for distortion plugins *is* a difficult problem with no perfect solution. I can think of three ways to solve it, each with their own drawbacks. 1) For the amount of gain you apply to the input, simply apply an inverse amount of gain to the output. This works well enough in some cases, but in saturation applications or anything that results in lots of nonlinearities, the more gain you apply the more incorrect the result is going to be because you're essentially increasing the RMS of the signal, and the difference between the incoming and outgoing RMS can only be so large, e.g. the RMS difference between an input sine wave and a resulting distorted square wave is only about 3dB at most no matter how much gain you apply. For that reason this method usually tends to over estimate if you apply more than a few decibels. This brings us to method no. 2… 2) Simply measure the RMS of the incoming and outgoing signals, and apply that difference as gain compensation. In a way this is a perfect solution, and it's essentially what compressors and other dynamic processors use, works really well there. But if you want to use this method then you're essentially implementing a compressor in addition to the rest of the plugin. It also means that the output gain is constantly reacting to the input which can cause an undesirable "pumping" effect as well as sideband distortion due to the constantly changing modulation. While being perfect in theory, it's not really workable in practice in this context, and thus as a third option I suggest… 3) Simply make a static estimate how much RMS gain your saturation method is going to apply for most kinds of input signals, and apply the inverse of that. It's basically a somewhat less naive version of option no. 1 as it takes into account the actual loudness added to the signal better without the assumption that every dB of input gain translates to equal amount of output gain. Drawback is that it's still never going to be perfect and requires a lot of careful tuning and testing with various kinds of signals, but in my opinion this provides the best estimate without resorting to option no. 2. Personally in my saturation plugin I apply gain compensation in two parts using a combination of methods 1 and 3 for the input gain and the saturation "drive" factor respectively, with the option to turn both on or off. Despite being a difficult problem it's an extremely important feature in these sorts of plugins nevertheless, so there's not really an excuse to ignore it, just find some way to implement it and at least offer it as an option (preferably on by default). But I just hope that users also realize that it's always going to be a rough estimate, so expect it to fail under certain circumstances. :) (ps. if you know any other ways please let me know.…:))

Brilliant, short description of how aliasing effects the sound, how it happens and how oversampling works. I like it concise like you've done it here.

What a lovely impact being seemingly created here . I'm finally notified and subscribed to White see Studios and consequently pick up Thickify right now .. see if it gets a "smooth operator" treatment and a hQ-mode button update !)

This cat is ruthless, even on himself. That's why I subscribe.

In case it helps someone else understand aliasing/foldback distortion: my understanding is that the reason why foldback distortion isn't "harmonic" or as some people say, not "musical", is that the distortion frequencies aren't mathematically related to the original signal (which would be harmonic distortion, the kind that you want out of a plugin like this), but instead are mathematically related only to the Nyquist frequency, which is a constant (determined by the sample rate you're working at) and has no relation to the actual signal you're working with. EDIT/correction: no *direct* relation to the original signal, only indirect (relationship between signal frequency and Nyquist frequency)

Thanks for the explenation of Oversampling and Faultback. Never understood this before

I have stopped waiting till the end of the video. I just give a thumbs up immediately knowing it will be amazing. Thanks for the awesome content/videos!

The white dot on the black square behind you is located in such a coordinate of a frame that attracts too much attention when watching the video :)

Thickify, if you're listening. Chris from Airwindows makes his plug-in's open source and he has code for a good ultra-sonic filter to control aliasing beyond what oversampling does by itself. -100db is supposed to be inaudible and sine wave sweeps up to 20khz are a good stress test

You are a gem in the audio community, thanks for always being transparent. You gave me confidence to move to reaper.

I now finally understand the need for oversampling, beyond the simple "because it makes things cleaner" that I understood before. Thanks!

i love the fact that you still CAN use it to add gain if you'd like to

There has been quite a few transformer saturation plug-ins on your Snake Oil series, so maybe it's time for a "What's the best transformer saturation plug-in" video? My top ones (except for Saturn 2, because it wins in every type of distortion/saturation category) are: Variety of Sound Tessla SE mkII (free), the transformer stages of Tokyo Dawn Labs Slick EQ Mastering and Slick EQ VoS, Kush Audio Omega series (especially the 458), Kazrog True Iron and the transformer option in Softube Harmonics Processor.

I personally appreciate you and this channel man!! thank you because of this channel i now understand things i thought one needs education to be able to understand.

6:00 deja vu

Always the musical highlight of my recommendations from KZfaq thanks always ! 🍻

Hey man. Just found your channel and i am so happy. I love making music but i am not really good at it, so I used to rely on plugins a lot.. but then I would hust hyperfocus on the plugin and how they do not fulfill the promises. Now my brain knows someone else does it. Bedankt!

Would you consider reviewing some content based around technical progressive psytrance (Labels like Zenon and Jaira) The sound design and composition of artists like Grouch for example is otherwordly, I know its not really your forte but I would love to see more content to do with the Genre as it deserves more spotlight in the modern world of mixing.

Nicely done! I'll check this plug-in out.

That was a very explicit version of Sandstorm.

Having the buy button all over the page makes it look like those 2004 website templates that sell PDF's

Sounds really good on high hats

The really like the UI now! Great job by the devs :)

One of the few times I purchased a product early into it's release because I believed int the direction, where it actually paid off. BIG shout out to the folks at RPS for continuing to improve a great idea. Glad I bought it.

Not sure they used an anti-aliaaing filter after Oversampling..... Or an ultra-sonic filter. Should have been able to catch more of that foldack distortion on the way back through Nyquist to prevent it from aliasing. How that works and how much oversampling is still a little bit complex for me though.

Can you do a video that gives audible/noticeable difference with "oversample ON/oversample OFF"?

i mean... oversampling sometimes cant be hearable, but it is feelable, like there is a difference surelly

Thank you for the amazing information. Every time I'm sceptical about something I imagine your face popping up "SNAKE OIL!!??" Keep up the awesome content!!

This is the best video of yours I’ve see

Any chance you could review Knock by decap? Would also love to see you review the new Blackbird Channel Strip. I love your channel. Thanks for the knowledge!!!!

what do you think of their new "Car Test" plugin?

This needs a MIX KNOB

Respect! It sounds good and its fast/easy - i like it!

Snake oil vids for the win! Making design great again.

super educational on the over-sampling Many thanks

Good that they took your feedback in consideration, still bad though that they launched a product with so many evident flaws and bad marketing. A well thought and professional product, carefully crafted and beta-tested doesn’t need to be promoted with six ‘buy this’ buttons..

I agree with you about the marketing, I own the plug-in and I still get emails telling me to buy it lol

AGAIN…. It’s NOT a mastering plug-in. It’s designed for INDIVIDUAL instruments in sound design.

Keep up the good work. I really appreciate your ethics.I work in software development (not audio related) and hate badly designed software as much as you.

I agree with your rant on courses, they won't make you a better mixer/producer instantly, BUT they might give you some food for thoughts and i actually adjusted my workflow a couple of times after watching some paid courses. Thing is - those who sell these courses give false promises like "after buying this you'll be the next Serban Ghenea etc etc", so the main problem is bad marketing again.

With CPU power where it is these days 88.2 or 96khz is perfectly workable.

please make a review of KIT BB N105 v2.....regards and thanks for your amazing videos

Best simple explanation why to oversample! 💯✔

I wonder if you could design a plug in, what would it be and how would you lay yours out?

Hell yeah! The White Sea influence grows in reach!

Oh dude, I would really love a good course-guide. Or a list of the most effective ways to learn new stuff. Cause just "doing" it, isn't always enough. I'm not really getting any further with EQing and compressing.

I do appreciate that they are now taking seriously and not just making a plugin because "hur de hur, but memes tho!". And being less scammy-looking also helps.

the amount of buy buttons is hilarious 😂

Another transformer related thing that would be interesting is doing a video of a "transformer box" build. I've seen them here and there in some studios - but no one has made a video of building one, it seems.

All that material on the walls and it's still cold in there? Have you ever noticed how the sound changes with temperature?

You should do a snake oil video on SAE Institute!

Hey awesome video tehre, and great product...but to be very honest, i dont think their Oversampling algorithm is upto the mark, I have seen other companies performing awesome even at 2x oversampling. I hope I'm not wrong. Nonetheless, the product surely looks improved since its previous version. :)

could you review the new plugin of NI, dirt? they have a pack with various plugins.

When a plu(in offers you the possibility to use oversampling, you must use it all time ! Yes, it takes more power, but offer more quality treatment.

Yes! Would like to see SnakeOil video's on courses.

great explanation on oversampling. thanks!

This is why I respect your opinion so much.

That company just gained a whole lot of credibility

Sausage Fattener was there a lonnnnnnng time ago….those graphics….😂😂😂

I know you will not talk about. Maybe… 😇 But the „unnamed plug-in“ is very good to handle and makes exactly the sound I want. But (!!!) because I do my stuff at home my Kids often watch on my screen. That means I can not use this plugin (or only at night when all others sleeping). Now the question. Is there a plug-in with the same feature (destroy sounds easy with few knobs and different distortion types)? I tried a few (d16, audio damage) and all the plugins does not give me the sound or are to complex 🥸 annoying isn’t it?

So in the end... should we set are DAWs to 44.1 and use oversampling when possible? Or export at 48/96/etc. and then convert the downsampled?..

Can you make a video about the loudness War

Regarding 5:38 I would definitely be interested in snake oil "online learning curses". In fact I might be even more interested in those! I'm not an audio engineer, just a hobby musician, and the amount of bullcrap those courses have is insane! And not even just the cheap ones, with your unexperienced average Joe talking nonsense; even the rather expensive courses with a "superstar" could be a huge scam and straight up robbery. Anyway, Wytse I don't want you to go bankrupt from buying tons of snake oil courses, BUT if you can get a few on your hands, I really would love some video of them. Keep it up!

Thanks for the video 🙌

Great follow up!!

snake oil on courses would be amazing tbf.

This reminds of dada life sausage fattener

Hi Is this snake oil? Kirchhoff-EQ is an ultimate 32-band parametric EQ

Money will change your mind every time

Where's an over the line volume meter?

I'd love snake oil videos even about milkboxes.

Sounds great tho,

if sausage fattener and carnage fattener had a baby

the one thing plugin companies could do to make the experience 100% scientifically better is to put the price of a plugin at the top and not hide it somewhere at the bottom of the page or (worse) not show it until you press the "get plugin" button.

Before you make a snake oil video about courses you have to visit one at first! would love to see that! :D xD

anybody got that torrent

You mean remind you. Remembering you is when I think "Oh I haven't seen a new Snake Oil vid for a sec. Wonder what Wytse is up to"

As far as marketing, Grammys do also matter. It's a mark of having made a high quality mix/master even if the music is not substantive in some cases.

"My own marketing"...as you might know, i am not only a musician/producer, I have a degree in marketing and music biz. First of all: You are on the best track, cause all what annoying you annoys me in all these "award grammy winner", "like the pros do" and "I MADE A (whatever, dude)" videos too. In the past I'll send you one or two comments when there was a glimpse of this in your videos too (mabe I did it as "IP") and your answer was every time onpoint...and freaking funny. But if you ever have an uncertainty about anything in this way...I guess you still have my email and, BRO, feel free to ask, ok? Greets, Ingo

Good vid

yes, snake-oil about courses is something I want to see!

Would you purchase this over Decapatator by Soundtoys?

Hey Mr. White; are these Sandstorm-Tracks un-mastered? Otherwise these test doesn´t make any sense....

That distortion sounds bad lol

insane Viideo

Will you make plugins someday? They would be perfect

Courses - I get the impression that there are more courses than customers out there ... 🙄