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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- AUDIO PLUGINS THAT ARE GENUINE TIME SAVERS || How to produce music faster and still get clean mixes
My name is Paul Third and I am a Scottish youtuber / audio engineer / mixing engineer / audio geek. I mostly cover audio engineering related content ranging from audio plugin shootouts / plugin comparisons (acustica audio plugins, universal audio etc etc) to actual analog vs digital / gear vs plugins plugin tests via access analog and mix analog. I even include ddmf plugindoctor tutorials in my plugin reviews so you can be your very own plugin tester and experiment and understand whats actually going on under the hood. I also discuss digital music distribution from time to time and like to give my viewpoint on online music distributors such as onerpm and distrokid.
All of my audio blind tests involving music production software are conducted in avid pro tools 2021 which is my main daw and I also use HOFA blind test 4U as my blind test software. In terms of my audio interface I record and monitor through my audient id44 and use an audio technica AT2050 for all of my voice overs.
This week I'm going to be looking at some music production software for beginners who are looking to focus more on the creative elements of the song without being bunged down by all of the 'boring' clean up thats involved in mixing tracks.
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0:00 intro
0:56 reso mastering the mix for resonance suppression
2:58 mastering the mix reso mix example
4:26 how to use soothe 2 to de-harsh compression
6:18 oeksound soothe 2 on electric guitar, harmonica, synth & vocals
8:18 using sonible smart eq3 to tonally balance your mix
10:03 sonible smart eq 3 example
11:30 using mixroom plugin and mixroom plugin as a reference plugin
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FYI this isn't a video stating that you can mix an entire record with just these 5 plugins. These are tools that used a certain way can make certain elements quicker and allow to focus on more creative elements of mixing I.e. Automation, Parallel comp & saturation, panning, fx, verbs, delays, 2 bus processing etc etc
Just puting that out there... Awwwrite 🤓
Glaswegians are very broad in their accents haha
Yeah I love it. 1176 is my go to on vocals. 33609 is the best 33609 plugin emulation I've tried in regards of comparing to the hardware, their sta level is awesome and their space echo and spring seem to be on everything I do just now. Even the chorus is really good but very loud at the same time.
Its worth the hype in my opinion
I’M CALLING THIS RIGHT NOW: This channel will eventually be among the top 5 biggest audio channels on RUclips.
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@@PaulThirdre you still using these and/or God Particle? And what about Monolith?
Yeah I'm using them all bar mixroom. Use fixed mixbus eq now now
Paul, you're doing so much useful research. Thank you for sharing that.
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Fantastic advice. Going right into my workflow. Cheers man.
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Even more Amazing when I listen with the sub on ..... Incredible texture Paul !!!
Just goes to show where the technology is at now 🤓
@@PaulThird tech is great. But good music is just plain good music.... It's a plus you know what you're doing with it... I'm still watching
another quality video my dude!! I use mixroom to give a ruff idea of where I should be taking the mix. not tried out bassroom but i defo need to try that and reso out. imo reso really cleaned up the tracks and i liked how it maintained the transients. the future of plugs is in the tech my dude!!
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It is now formally established that technical audio information does indeed sound better in a Scottish accent
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Very good.
I like the song too🎧!
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DSEQ by TBProAudio is absolutely BEAST!!!
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Cheers from Glasgow
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My hero !!
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When the vocals kick in I lost it !!! 😁
What did you feel had the most impact?
@@PaulThird bruh I'm still watching..... 😁😁.. I'm 20 min in... You're about to wrap it up... honestly everything... Guitars, harmonica, full music.. especially the vocal demo.... I'm just deciding on buying Soothe2... I'm a discount buyer. As soon as it goes on a sale I'm all in. But I did get Reso and am completely satisfied.
@@PaulThird ok I'm finished..... This video is next level for you. Using your song as a demo is bold... You're incredibly humble about it ... But I totally enjoyed it !!
THANKS FROM VENEZUELA, FRIEND.
Eventide's new SplitEQ plugin would probably also fit well in these recommendations.
The plan is to stick it after this and see what it can do on the tracks. They got in touch with me too late 🤓
RESO, eh? I can't say I was very impressed with it. I found I could only get good results by manually tuning in frequencies, in which case I could just reach for a dynamic EQ. The innterface was counterintuitive as well.
Stuck it on every track, let it do its thing. Dialed it back on 2 or 3 tracks linking the input and output. 10 minutes. Job done.
Keeps the transients in tact, doesn't affect the phase as much as other dynamic eq's and I changed the default to the full freq spectrum and also -15db to really test it and still kept everything super clean.
Won't find any complaints from me 🤓
@@PaulThird It is very clean, I'll give it that!
personally not a fan of resonance detection. not all resonances are bad in context and IMO its better to target the problem frequencies with your ears and only correct things when you need to. I will occasionally use soothe on bright material
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if only they could create a plugin that could translate idea thoughts to finished tracks ... - ah well. .. from my experience the most resonant smothered tracks are vocals and acoustic guitars recorded in home studios , especially closets with blankets in them . Reso might help a lot in that case. the more you do this the more you love having a great sounding raw recording per track , it just mixes it self .
That's called acid 🤣
But I always thought the Pro Q3s Purple analyzer gave you the resonant peaks when you simply hover the mouse arrow in the lower part 🤔 That's what I've been using it for. Not as fast as reso but way faster than sweeping.
I was told that was level peaks 🤔 I may be wrong though
@@PaulThird Hmmm had to check the manual and it calls it spectrum grab mode. It shows 'obvious' frequency peaks. Which is levels? I dunno. Still really cool feature. They recommend setting it to post-eq so it relates better to your hearing and apparently it will show you the 'most important peaks' 😎.
@@PaulThird I came here to make exactly the same comment as Ed but just checked the spectrum grab (by playing a track and giving it a very short tone at 10k) and it is levels so I'd have been wrong too
Did you also turned MTM Bassroom on/off together with Mixroom?
Yes both were showcased together
I prefer gullfoss, sooo good
That's for at the very end for me haha again all the other stuff means that Gulfoss doesn't have to work as hard as well. Mix and bass room means I don't have to sculpt Gulfoss as much 🤓
Not feeling the "reso" thing... in the age of Soothe or DSEQ it's kind of limited. Snare drum rings and such are easy to find and correct with EQ, but pitched sounds like vocals the resonances move around. The other thing is, most troublesome resonances also have a stack of harmonics associated with them... so a plugin that only detects and squashes the fundamental of a resonance inadvertently allows the resonant harmonics become more apparent.
I just used my ears and liked what it done.. That's really all I can go on. its genuinely what I've been doing with fabfilter but takes me a fraction of the time so for me it's a no brainer.
Reso is one of the cleanest dynamic eq's I've seen. I don't have Dseq however it isn't anywhere as clean as reso but we're still talking like -130db vs -180db so even though it's 50db of a difference its still in a non audible range but to me reso does what it does incredibly clean and I like how it really keeps the transients in tact as well as not really affecting the phase that much.
A smart transparent resonance suppressor for £40 is pretty good going in my book. Depends what you've got already. I'm fortunate to have reso and soothe so I can use both to taste. If I had to pick one id always choose soothe
@@PaulThird My latest "time saver" is Ayaic's "Ceilings of Sound" EQ... once I got my head around it I get crazy good results very quickly. Their Mix Monolith is pretty cool too, but I need to do more tests.
Is there a plug-in that can change a vocals accent.
Imagine how clever that algorithm would need to be 😅
@@PaulThird and now imagine how smart humans actually are. Because the dumbest of shits can fake the greatest accents.
Imho, i have a demo beta of sonible. I wasn't impressed much, because tone balancing is not my cup of tea. It worked, very clearly...
I consider myself to be a lover, not a hater - primarily. So let's start with the good:
These "smart" Plugins will only get smarter. Eventually the only thing they can't do, is hearing what is special and moving about the individual song and make creative decisions to enhance it. Thus the mixing engineer of the future will allmost exclusively be a creative guy - and not a nerd. Also it IS true, that the song comes first and when you focus on the feeling, that's when you can get the best out of it.
Hoooowever. Reso finds more resonances than are problematic.. so wether all of that work was necessary (it killed a lot of the vibe imo) and wether it would be worth it (after compression and effects) is something, that is very hard to judge from this point on (for me at least) - I'd need to hear the finished mix. Pocket Knife by Bronze Radio Return is a) a great song, b) not easy to mix. I think one has to use Reso with more caution. I'd only take out 1-3 of the nods at this stage. And revisit it if compression brings out/creates problems.
This is why: If you kill the vibe, it will be hard to reintroduce it later down the chain.. and you'll raise all kinds of problems trying. If you don't kill a problem in the beginning of your chain, you can always come back to the beginning and clap it.. you will not UNCONCIOUSLY try to fix it with an EQ, Comp, Saturator or Reverb.. a problem is a problem.. that's a lot more clearcut than "vibe" and you know how to fix it. That's the philosophy of small moves. And that's a big difference between producing and mixing. Producing is big moves (transitioning to small-moves is problematic for me too).
Mixing is not a one-way-street from top to bottom. If we were all-knowing and all-powerful it would be.. but we ain't and neither are the plugins - and that's why most make small moves and come back to the top when necessary. I try not to ever underestimate the artist. He hears himself.. I assume most of what is there SHOULD be there. Glad you joined me for another mixing-philosophy-comment with Gerhard, the oversharing german.
PS: Bassroom, Mixroom.. don't have it, don't intend on having it, never heard of it, can't talk about it. Reso on the other hand is on my list. But I don't feel urgent about purchasing it.
I did purposely go overboard with reso with -15db max default for the video but I'd probs still use all the nodes but have it default at -5db as I've got soothe after compression
mixroom and bassroom are huge time savers. Use to spend hours trying to get what those two plugins give you in under 5 minutes.
Yeah I can get really quick results with these 2 plugs
A Comment for the youtube algo. How about ozone? that is the ultimate time saver.
There's loads of great plugins for workflow. If I was doing mastering I'd use ozone 🤓
where's that plugin called coffe?
Coffee?
@@PaulThird You know, to wake up and work faster
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That was so quick 😂
@@PaulThird Has my wife been talking to you?
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No love for NovaGE to derez in comments? I find it to be quick and effective.
I've seen Dan Worral feature it now and then 🤓
Reso doesn’t sound good at all to me, I’ve tried to like it so much! Soothe 2 is far superior
Why not use both then so both don't have to do as much 🤷♂️ I don't really get how you can get reso to sound bad tbh link the input & output and adjust to control the overall amount of suppression. I just don't know why it would sound bad 🤷♂️
4:56 be careful, many of those "Resonance suppressors" bring artifacts..in this example sounds better without Reso... Resonance are part of the sound, noawadays people are getting crazy with Soothe and all those resonance suppressors and destroying the life of music !
I think the main process for me is understanding why I'm taking them away. I agree that if you are doing it just cause you think you should do it then defeats the purpose as you don't have an understanding of what your listening for.
I prefer cleaner mixes. I listen to my first single and despise it cause at that time I didn't how to get it any cleaner. I know the mistakes I made now but I know it could have been so much better.
Cause I was listening to everything in the mix I could hear that the harmonica was cutting through better with the suppression, as was basically everything else to my ears.
I've always done it as I hear more punch and detail in the mix. Many could say I'm removing vibe but vibe is something that's easy to add in.
I personally believe that without the resonances reduced you will subconsciously eq more in the mix to get certain elements to stand out because you lack that detail and sepetation that subtractive clean up can add. By eq'ing more you'll also bring up the resonances more. So if you think about it.. At the start of the mix you don't really hear it until say a 6db boost in solo. But after compression and big eq brush strokes I'd argue you definitely would but it's one of those where you don't know it's there unless you take them out and compare as your ears are tuned to the mix without suppression.
Like aliasing, having too much resonance can build up over a mix and kind of cloud the detail that's hiding behind.
Its just about knowing when you are going too far
That's just how mind thinks haha and it's just my opinion
@@PaulThird I relate with your thought proccess Paul. I always found myself using subtractive eq after serial compression. But after using soothe and dseq when I compressed the signal, I was making boosts instead of cuts as I found the sound to be pleasing and I wasn't actively trying to fix something.
This! It's like using audio restoration tools such as denoiser and decrackler on every channel just for the sake of it, and just because you can cpu wise. It seems religious / dogmatic IMHO.
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If you want to make your life easier I think it’s better choice to spend time and learn how to make a good recording
True but this multitrack session was recorded via telefunken who organised all the multitrack sessions. They know their stuff.
Even the best mixers in the world have editors who clean up the recordings prior and some of those recordings are from the best studios in the world.
Good recordings are vital but still doesn't mean there isnt clean up involved
Id say both are completely interlinked. Better the recording is less clean up you'll need but you'll still need in many cases
@@PaulThird you are right about editors, I was thinking more on todays music and not telefunken particular sessions. Of course this plugins could help but I just wanted to always remember that getting a great session is a beautiful art that sometimes is missed in our home studios. Thanks for your passion and dedication, greetings from Chile
This ain’t it. Soothe is great. The others - no thank you, I’ll rather use my ears.
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So you say, but, have you even tried this? I'm actually really curious to ..... It's not that you wouldn't tweak to taste afterwards. But this is pretty impressive