more like a sand breeze than a storm now

Lucky u two, mine had no sand in it

My neigbor has an RV camper that says “Sandstorm” across it in huge letters. It makes me laugh & think of this channel every time I see it

I love Sandstorm and it sounded especially good through Bloom....good work....

my gosh, this made me lol irl

I think the issue is not in the interfaces, but in the producers ears and capabilities. The biggest impact ADDA conversion has is the first time (assuming sample rates and bit depth are consistent through each additional AD/DA conversion) and that's already REALLY small. The sample rate is going to constrain the audio in the first conversion, removing any frequencies above 1/2 of the sample rate (see Nyquist theorem.) With virtually all modern gear, those are going to be out of the range of human hearing. It's really not in the gear. The gear got better, not worse. It would be illogical to assume it's the gear.

@@akagerhard He specifically said "Cheaper microphones, cheaper interfaces".... yes it's the gear he's talking about. I upgraded from M-Audio FW410 to RME USB Babyface, the better word clock made a huge difference when EQ'ing in the box. I have an SM58 and AEA 44CE... Mackie preamps and Electrodyne preamps... etc etc

​@@cylonvoiceguy The effect of the word clock is pretty much placebo, you won't be able to hear the difference between anything made in the last 30 years. If youre hearing a differnce from the M-audio it's gonna be in the cleaner gain you get with the babyface vs the noisier preamps of the m-audio

this. Production is so so sos os os os osososssoossssssosooooooooooo fucking important thatn when done right makes the other two jobs (mix master) even easier but BETTER SOUNDNG. BRO WHEREEEEEEE can I get better sounding samples and sounds and what are better sounding virtual instrument's. I am trying to up my production. Is splice good? I herd they have a plethora of sounds on there and it high quality. And as for an interface, I got a cheap 99 pre sonus one thats old as hell. Any reccomendations for a high quality sounding one and mic?

@@cholkymilkmirage4984 it depends on the type of music you’re making, but Samples From Mars is a good place to start. I’d avoid Splice quite frankly - at this point it’s significantly oversaturated so it’s hard to find high quality sounds from reliable creators. The Arturia vintage synth collection and the Roland cloud synth collection are both very solid as VST synth collections. As are Diva and Trillian for bass. Pigments is also a very good VST synth. There are some really good live drum sample packs out there today as well, Jake Reed Music, Wave Tick drums, Shroom 020 … all recorded with high end gear and mics. For weirder more random types of samples you have to be more discerning and look more carefully, but they’re out there. Hope that helps, good luck!

@@cholkymilkmirage4984 for interface & mic: SSL2+ is the most slept on interface around. $299 bucks. Super cheap, with super solid preamps and conversion. For mic, the Aston Origin is probably the best cheap microphone around imo. Altho if you can afford an SM7b, which is only marginally more expensive, that would also be a great choice. The Sennheiser Mk4 is also pretty good, has a very forward and defined sound with a pronounced midrange though, so depends on if you like that kind of thing. If you can go higher with budget, TLM 102 is great, but then you’re entering the high end mic market, at which point you’d likely want a better preamp. All that said, if budget permits, I’d get the Heritage audio i73 … you can grab one for 1k USD and those pres are better than any other interface on the market, but the price reflects that. If you pair that with any of the 3 cheaper mics you will never really need anything better.

@@cholkymilkmirage4984AKG414 XLS is the reliable swiss army knife that works for everything. No harshess, it does have a very small boost around the limit of human hearing but i like it and a lot of people won't notice it, i can hear up to 19.4KHz.

They should have done an intro offering as everyone else does it..

@@KYTHERAOfficial It's was at €169 intro.

​@@-Deena.When? The moment i saw this release it was at full price and everyoone asked to get a sort of intro price. But even that is dxpensive though.

@@DJayFreeDoo It is still now £169 Go look. 🧡

@@DJayFreeDoo £.169, apols, not €. It's still £169.

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Exactly the first thing I noticed. It sound so perfect.

@@coryrogers846 The track is called "Light on Your Feet". Ryan plays most, if not all the instruments you hear on his songs. He's also a massively talented drummer and nice guy. I recommend you check out his music!

@@gravgrav5335 Totally agree with what you wrote. You can put an EQ-curve before Gullfoss to make it sound like Bloom. They are in fact very similar. I don't use either in the end product. Gullfoss or Bloom are used to create a reference track, then I will recreate the EQ curve using the REFERENCE plugin. That way you get a great sounding track without artefacts. That actually sounds much better. (Bloom sounds harsh, probably aliasing).

It really isn't just a multi-band dynamic EQ though...seriously, its not.

@@-Deena.I agree. Tho, I'd still love to see a plugin comparison. He can illustrate how bloom is similar and different from a dynamic EQ.

I didn't know that the AKG 414 XLS is so much better than the XL2 version. The XL2 has issues with the 2KHz-10KHz region, 6KHz in particular has a boost of 5 dB and i hate 6KHz. I think bleeding by itself isn't the main problem, bleeding can't be avoided only reduced. Harshess is produced by aliasing, aliasing ruins clarity for anything above 14KHz, there are a lot of mixing tutorials on youtube with waves plugins and they have significant aliasing problems (they can't handle any sampling rate).

Does that have a squash mode?

Looked like the 4 sliders also move left and right to lower or raise the center frequency of that section's bandwidth..

Frequencies are not fixed and you can do mid and side different frequencies

did you watch the video

@@whatskraken3886 yes, he did let notice so I was pointing it out politely. Thanks for stopping by though.

I was wondering this too. This has 4 bands that you can focus on individually but I think gulfoss can only focus on one thing at a time unless you open up another gulfoss

Exactly… Those companies are just cashing in on “preset” generation of producers and “engineers”

so does soothe

Yes, just like ten other plugins on the market for a fraction of the price.

After testing it’s pretty similar. IMO bloom has a better UI. I’m not sure if the algorithm is more heavy handed in Equalizer but I seem to get slightly better/more transparent results out of bloom. They’re close though and as an Equalizer owner I probably won’t be paying the 200 bucks to keep bloom, even though I regularly use oeksound’s other stuff. Also, bloom isn’t really “multi band,” you actually have a bit more tone shaping control in Equalizer. It’s just how the interface is laid out.

i was wrong it's really good and sounds better than those 2

I just took a listen to your tracks. Very smooth-sounding. Clear and smooth...

Soothe2 and Bloom might be similar as both based on principles of dynamic EQ, but Spiff different as it focuses on transients

Soothe is substractive only for example

Gulfoss doesn’t give the mid side or smash or as much control, I’ve A/B’d them a lot and both have their uses

Atleast to me, if anything, the problem is muddiness in today’s world. Bad rooms bad sound selections etc… harshness is so much easier to fix in my opinion. But bloom Is amazing at muddiness too.

Yes and no. Technically they are very different at least.

oeksound has stated that it doesnt use a reference target. if you dont already have gulfoss and are looking to drop 200 euros on an automatic dynamic EQ plugin i think this might be a compelling option, but not for me i think.

I compared between Bloom and Gullfoss. Gullfoss is dynamic EQ, Bloom isn't. It is making something additional which make track sounding nice. Gullfoss doesn't do that.

People keep saying it's not a dynamic EQ... then, what is it? If I were pumping out product, producing or especially mixing lots of singers with their guitars, all trying to sound like each other, then $200 to have a "singer songwriter" preset, that might work elsewhere too, who knows, might then seem to be worth it. For actual me, who doesn't do any of those things, this product obviously isn't for me, but I'm still curious about what the actual functionality is, if it's NOT a dynamic EQ? "It makes the sound bloom" isn't a functionality - it's a phrase you learn at audiophile sales camp. What does it do to the sound? In synth sound design, you can make the sound bloom via a slow attack, and set the curve of the attack for how you want it to bloom (exp, log, complex, etc). And then you would do the same with the sound's brightness, the higher harmonics, often using a filter envelope. If you were the mixer not the producer, and couldn't program the sound to bloom at the source, then you could use a dynamic EQ, or a multiband compressor... but these are all approaching the same idea... a multiband dynamic ducker/expander. You could make a Bloom preset, a Soothe preset, or whatever, and then fine them for specific tracks as needed. Then you'd add a different reverb depending on whether you want it to bloom or smear, etc. So then, when people tell me this ISN'T a set of expansion presets for a multiband dynamics processor, I wonder what it actually IS. That's not such a strange reaction, is it? If the software is using a different technique than the stuff I mentioned, I'd love to learn that, or at least to know about it. Someone else suggested that it could be dynamic EQ using a reference curve, such as pink noise, as the target to match. People said it's not that. Okay, then what IS it?

@@GizzyDillespee Try demo this plugin on your track. You'll be know.

I’m preferring it on individual tracks or busses for sure. Master bus would be much gentler application

@@kevinkearney3836 Nice, I can see this clearing up one of my DI guitars a little more and possibly bring a freshness to the vocals