Hope you guys work on getting those backer modules sounding like crisp style-transfers of voices instead of the robot artifact filled sounds they are now. Still very cool!
Wow, this is really impressive. Powerful yet user friendly, great demo and walk through. Thank you for the tips and tricks and kudos to the developers behind the scenes.
Loving the Audio Level module as well as the saturation. The voices module looks like a fun toy but I still prefer stacking real vocals, nothing like it and is more fun.
For anybody who wants some feedback. I am not an audio guy. I know my way around the color and edit page of Davnci resolve. I wanted something that would help spice up my dialogue. I bought the Nectar Elements and it is fantastic. The dialogue I have does not require noise reduction or cleanup. However it is so flat and boring! I needed a tool that would spice it up and give it color. The Nectar 4 elements did just that! A few turns of the dials and my dialogue is improved. I highly recommend. Maybe as I get better I sound I will upgrade to the Advanced but I am very pleased with this product.
This Geoff guy gets a gold star. He could be a professional hypnotist. I've been on board since Nectar One and this latest version really has some major improvements. I'm excited! I just got it, but haven't cracked it open yet.
I've already done the update. It's expensive, but here we have a completely new machine then the old Nectar. Also, the finally the possibility to use single modules as plugins. Auto-level is perfect. And in general, it's always a good start up for mixing vocals or, as happens, when you are in a hurry. Anyway, I think is a great evolution from the previous version.
Love the Auto-Level. The Tame Noise feature is genius.Much better than Waves Vocal Rider, or using a lot of compression. I wish all the separate modules had the learn feature..lol. The Backer concept is also brilliant...it just still sounds a little wonky for me. Hopefully it will get better. All in all, this is my go to plug in, and has been for years. 4 is definitely an upgrade from 3 IMO. Great Vid!
I believe there should be a way to analyze the music around the vocals to ensure a better match with the track, rather than just trying to make the vocals sound like a different track.
@@lNowHerel izotope make a plugin called neutron. You put it on whatever channels you like and it shows you the frequency analysis. Say you have a guitar and vocal with the plugin inserted, you open one up and it shows you the analysis for both and which frequencies are masking or clashing with the vocals. It then lets you EQ either guitar or the vocal, or both to fix the issues. It does more than that too. Best to look for izotope neutron on RUclips and watch for yourself 👍
A bit late here but I just upgraded my MPS bundle and look forward to trying out the new Nectar! Geoff, as usual, such a great presentation, so calm, eloquent, a pleasure to watch and listen. Those first vocal bits have bit of a TV On The Radio vibe, very nice!
In this demo the Backer voices sound great. When you listen to them separately, e.g. changing your own voice, you will probably find that most of them sound strange. And in my experience it is very hard to make that go away. I would like to see and hear more tutorials or examples of how to get this to sound right.
Well done Geoff! There's a lot of ballistics in this video but you've managed to keep it in the pocket... ;) If I get what you're saying at 41:30, this means I could get Lennon & McCartney to sing along with me!! That's awesome!
Thankyou for doing these tutorials Geoff. You do an absolutely great job of them always. I find that in many other tutorials that people do they are talking about what can be done but they hardly ever tell you in detail how it can be done. This is not the case with you. I always come away from your videos with a good understanding of how to use the products. Its a big help... so again Thankyou so much for being very good at what you do Geoff.
Hello Great video. Newbie to using Izotope production suite. I have my (instrument and) vocal tracks grouped (Ableton Live 12 Standard) 1- Do you put an instance of Nectar 4 on each track, get the results you want and then on the bus/aux track (going to the master track) or just the bus/aux track or both? Thanks in advance.
Why don't I like the voices section? Because I am over 60? Well, at least because I remember and am proud of all the effort and skills we put into our background vocals. I remember late, late nights in the studio giving it all our love ...😊 Wouldn't have been without them...
I used Plugin Boutique and upgraded from Nectar 3+ to Nectar 4 standard for £43.A 67% reduction on normal price.The advanced was only a 20% reduction,so figured it best to get standard and then see what the price for upgrading to advanced Nectar 4 in a few months.I still have Nectar 3+ to use too.
Great walkthrough, can the follow node for the eq where you get it to follow a certain frequency, be set as a side chain dynamic eq, like in surfer EQ 2 by sound radix, this would help me not upgrade to their eq and stick with iZotope's framework?
Thanks, including for labeling sections to which I can return, if needed. I'm excited, and it gave me $100 off winding up with Melodyne 5 Assistant, since Nectar 4 included Melodyne Essentials. I probably could have just used Mel. Ess. but wanted full mouse-dragging-level control over individual vocal nuances. I never heard "metadata" being used that way, like perceived eq profile of a vocal in a song (versus embedded text details like title or artist name). It's weird how many audio experts have my own, same, exact room and door :)
I want to know what Audio Interface Geoff uses lol these plugins are not friendly while on record. With that being said, when iZotope decides to release an audio interface, it's officially over for RME, more or less.
Only thing it's missing is 3 octaves of flanged echoed COWBELL. Great unit. Thanks for the great demo. Needs an apt that makes you sound like Paul Rogers on a Shure 57 😂. Be good Nectar MAN. Love your Star Trek processing. 🖖
interesting. can you use the voices module to make another harmony of a vocal file, and export that so that you can use that harmony with the backer module?
I just want to suggest an implementation. When I'm moving the voices in the stereo field in the panel, I want to see the kind of voices I'm working with. It's not simple to remember which color is associated to the unison, to the 5th and so on.
Extremely helpful overview thanks, and explains for me very clearly what v 4 offers relative to v 3. BTW, your voice is sounding great in this video (assume you’ve Nectar 4’d it? 😉). Thanks again.
Hi Geoff, I also own RX 10 -- for tone-matching vocal references, should I use 'Lens' as you suggested in this video, or would it perhaps be better to use 'Music Rebalance' on the 'Best' setting (which is excellent, I use it all the time) to isolate the vox within RX, and then simply train lens on the 'Capture' setting instead of 'Acapella'? Which of these methods should yield the best results? Thanks!
So, Autolevel is like Selig, right? Also, for CPU performance reasons, I assume you can have a "working track" and then bounce that to a pre-mixed/effected new track? I know that might depend upon the DAW, obviously. Does this run stand alone as well?
posso ligar mic numa placa zomm h6 e tirar uma saida line e mandar p outra placa na entrada ausxiliar da segunda placa? nao vou ligar noa entrada do mic nao e na entradad ausiliar, posso ou vai queimar a saida? ou entrada/?
I have Windows 10, interface VOLT 1 - but with me not work in Nectar 4 the "Baker" function. Die faces comes not to see at all. Why? And, more better! - if I show my audio for Ozon 11 to hear, it starts to suspend, makes a crash-bang, and suggests so high loudness, that I think my computer flies away. Why? John Burn from Germany
HI! great video. Quick question- When combining Nectar with Neoverb, what should come first in the processing chain? Or is this meant to be used as a stand alone?
At 18:08 - When the Auto-Level is placed on a Bus, does it level each track individually or bring all the individual tracks closer to the same level????????
Maybe my ears are not working correctly but I have seen some other tutorials where I also thought the starting vocals sounded better and more natural than the mixed once with nectar…
So after neuton 4 finishes lerning in the ai power assistant, i don't get any of the knobs or screens in this video. I only have a tone and width adjustments. I'm following the steps. Hoping to learn what I'm doing wrong.
I have a question, lately I got nectar 4, I was wondering if the vocals aren’t loud enough should I use the autolevel volume to increase the vocals? Or I should use the fader?
Where from Audiolens take audio signal to capture Targets ??? I use Sonarworks that do EQ coreection for headphones and speakers and it is quiet drasticly with EQ that adds frequencies like +12dB where I have my room frequency spectrum hole. Should I turn off Sonarworks app BEFOREI decide to take Audiolens snapshot of vocal or full song target ?
The latest version 4. About 2 something for the advanced version. But they have a bundle that I purchased you get like different products for 4 and some change
How can I accomplish changing my EQ and compressor settings with time? Do i just need to create a new track? Also, with Voices, how can I accomplish chanhing my harmonies with time? Primarily through MIDI?
Hi...I just purchased the Bundle with Ozone 11 Advanced, Nutron 4 Advanced, Nectar 4, etc. I'm just wondering why you'd throw ALL the audio (your mix) into the Assistant at the start...instead of just the vocal track? Is the AI that good to distinguish between the vocal, and say, a snare and midrange synth? Nice vid, and as a previous user of Ozone 10, the improvements and features in 11 Advanced are wonderful as well. You've convinced me to install Nectar 4. Guess I'll give the DSP hungry 'El Rey" a rest for the time being!
@IzotopeOfficial do you offer any plugin which can automatically balance all of the elements of a mix with the help of AI? Like i don’t have to move the faders of my mixer manually to level each element
Hi, iZotope vinyl does not show any percentage values when adjusting Dust, Scratches, and Wrap values. Please release a hotfix to resolve this issue. It's a very good plugin but not being able to precisely adjust our value when adjusting the dust, scratch and wrap values is really annoying.
Man this is Huge been studying this video for a couple days now thank you.
Hope you guys work on getting those backer modules sounding like crisp style-transfers of voices instead of the robot artifact filled sounds they are now. Still very cool!
I think nectar would really benefit from a genre choice before letting the ai decide what to do, for me it's not doing a great job most of the time
This is a HUGELY significant update! Cheers iZotope!
Wow, this is really impressive. Powerful yet user friendly, great demo and walk through. Thank you for the tips and tricks and kudos to the developers behind the scenes.
Loving the Audio Level module as well as the saturation. The voices module looks like a fun toy but I still prefer stacking real vocals, nothing like it and is more fun.
Thanks. But in the "voices" section it was really hard to hear the changes because the music was too loud.
At 9:45 - maybe the loudness disguises things, but I though the before was way better than the after. The eq seems just to be off to me.
For anybody who wants some feedback. I am not an audio guy. I know my way around the color and edit page of Davnci resolve. I wanted something that would help spice up my dialogue. I bought the Nectar Elements and it is fantastic. The dialogue I have does not require noise reduction or cleanup. However it is so flat and boring! I needed a tool that would spice it up and give it color. The Nectar 4 elements did just that! A few turns of the dials and my dialogue is improved. I highly recommend. Maybe as I get better I sound I will upgrade to the Advanced but I am very pleased with this product.
Cool, does it load fast in your daw ?
@@Stormchaser189 yes it works great…loads fast
This Geoff guy gets a gold star. He could be a professional hypnotist. I've been on board since Nectar One and this latest version really has some major improvements. I'm excited! I just got it, but haven't cracked it open yet.
I upgraded to Oz11. I can’t imagine anyone outdoing Geoff’s tutorials. He’s been ‘first’ for years.
I've already done the update. It's expensive, but here we have a completely new machine then the old Nectar. Also, the finally the possibility to use single modules as plugins. Auto-level is perfect. And in general, it's always a good start up for mixing vocals or, as happens, when you are in a hurry. Anyway, I think is a great evolution from the previous version.
The new updated Audiolens is really cool. It's a good starting point for tone shaping.
Love the Auto-Level. The Tame Noise feature is genius.Much better than Waves Vocal Rider, or using a lot of compression. I wish all the separate modules had the learn feature..lol. The Backer concept is also brilliant...it just still sounds a little wonky for me. Hopefully it will get better. All in all, this is my go to plug in, and has been for years. 4 is definitely an upgrade from 3 IMO. Great Vid!
I believe there should be a way to analyze the music around the vocals to ensure a better match with the track, rather than just trying to make the vocals sound like a different track.
Technically you can do that with masking EQ in neutron 👍
@@jamesjames77777 will you explain this?
@@lNowHerel izotope make a plugin called neutron. You put it on whatever channels you like and it shows you the frequency analysis. Say you have a guitar and vocal with the plugin inserted, you open one up and it shows you the analysis for both and which frequencies are masking or clashing with the vocals. It then lets you EQ either guitar or the vocal, or both to fix the issues. It does more than that too. Best to look for izotope neutron on RUclips and watch for yourself 👍
A bit late here but I just upgraded my MPS bundle and look forward to trying out the new Nectar!
Geoff, as usual, such a great presentation, so calm, eloquent, a pleasure to watch and listen.
Those first vocal bits have bit of a TV On The Radio vibe, very nice!
the best Nectar 4 tutorial! thanks
In this demo the Backer voices sound great. When you listen to them separately, e.g. changing your own voice, you will probably find that most of them sound strange. And in my experience it is very hard to make that go away. I would like to see and hear more tutorials or examples of how to get this to sound right.
Well done Geoff! There's a lot of ballistics in this video but you've managed to keep it in the pocket... ;) If I get what you're saying at 41:30, this means I could get Lennon & McCartney to sing along with me!! That's awesome!
I BOUTHT THE OZONE 11 WITH THE MIX AND MASTER BUNDLE AND IT TOOK MY MIXES TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL !!!!!
did you have ozone 10 before?
Holy mackerel! The new modules are fantastic!!
love the tame impala shirt btw
Great help, thank you so much. I couldn't figure out how to use the voices module to create harmonies: who would have guessed? Unison mode it is.
Thankyou for doing these tutorials Geoff. You do an absolutely great job of them always. I find that in many other tutorials that people do they are talking about what can be done but they hardly ever tell you in detail how it can be done. This is not the case with you. I always come away from your videos with a good understanding of how to use the products. Its a big help... so again Thankyou so much for being very good at what you do Geoff.
Hello Great video. Newbie to using Izotope production suite. I have my (instrument and) vocal tracks grouped (Ableton Live 12 Standard) 1- Do you put an instance of Nectar 4 on each track, get the results you want and then on the bus/aux track (going to the master track) or just the bus/aux track or both? Thanks in advance.
I was waiting for Geoff to do a tutorial on Nectar 4, as i got it a few days ago
ok finally going to fix the vocals to this
Why don't I like the voices section? Because I am over 60? Well, at least because I remember and am proud of all the effort and skills we put into our background vocals. I remember late, late nights in the studio giving it all our love ...😊 Wouldn't have been without them...
WOOOW ! You guys. That's amazing! You thought of everything. That backer module - speechless. That's crazy good. :D :O Thanks!
amazing! Thanks for the comprehensive explanation.
All this amazing info and here I am adding to the # replays for "I don't know why it's on my belt 😂" at 18:50
Upgrade prices are insane.
@@officialWWMThe same for me. I hope they will not repeat what Waves do when you have to pay and pay and pay for things you've already bought.
Exactly!!!! $224 and I have Nectar 3 + already!!! They should’ve made it $50 for the upgrade the most!!!
I used Plugin Boutique and upgraded from Nectar 3+ to Nectar 4 standard for £43.A 67% reduction on normal price.The advanced was only a 20% reduction,so figured it best to get standard and then see what the price for upgrading to advanced Nectar 4 in a few months.I still have Nectar 3+ to use too.
Worth it
@@Gedagnorsblame stupid consumers and greedy ceos
I love the suite of products! So much fun to learn and use!
Great walkthrough, can the follow node for the eq where you get it to follow a certain frequency, be set as a side chain dynamic eq, like in surfer EQ 2 by sound radix, this would help me not upgrade to their eq and stick with iZotope's framework?
I'm sorry, but what's that at 16:08? 😅
thanks a lot for explaining this software in-depth
This video is why I'm about to buy this product, Geoff. I need to update Reason to 12, first.
Thanks, including for labeling sections to which I can return, if needed. I'm excited, and it gave me $100 off winding up with Melodyne 5 Assistant, since Nectar 4 included Melodyne Essentials. I probably could have just used Mel. Ess. but wanted full mouse-dragging-level control over individual vocal nuances. I never heard "metadata" being used that way, like perceived eq profile of a vocal in a song (versus embedded text details like title or artist name). It's weird how many audio experts have my own, same, exact room and door :)
Bought and it's so GREAT!
so auto level is just like vocal rider by waves?
I own Nectar 2 and Nectar 3 + and they should make the upgrade $50 not $224 then goes up after! That’s crazy
I want to know what Audio Interface Geoff uses lol these plugins are not friendly while on record. With that being said, when iZotope decides to release an audio interface, it's officially over for RME, more or less.
Thank you for these videos, they are extremely helpful!
Has anyone compared the Auto Level module with Waves Vocal Rider?
for me the auto level is perfect to not use vocal rider. I'm not using waves plugins anymore for obvious reasons.
WOW! totally amazing. Can anyone tell me if Nectar 4 has timing correction? Thanks
Only thing it's missing is 3 octaves of flanged echoed COWBELL. Great unit. Thanks for the great demo. Needs an apt that makes you sound like Paul Rogers on a Shure
57 😂. Be good Nectar MAN. Love your Star Trek processing. 🖖
interesting. can you use the voices module to make another harmony of a vocal file, and export that so that you can use that harmony with the backer module?
Thank You very much for this intersting tutorial!
I just want to suggest an implementation. When I'm moving the voices in the stereo field in the panel, I want to see the kind of voices I'm working with. It's not simple to remember which color is associated to the unison, to the 5th and so on.
Extremely helpful overview thanks, and explains for me very clearly what v 4 offers relative to v 3. BTW, your voice is sounding great in this video (assume you’ve Nectar 4’d it? 😉). Thanks again.
Hi Geoff,
I also own RX 10 -- for tone-matching vocal references, should I use 'Lens' as you suggested in this video, or would it perhaps be better to use 'Music Rebalance' on the 'Best' setting (which is excellent, I use it all the time) to isolate the vox within RX, and then simply train lens on the 'Capture' setting instead of 'Acapella'?
Which of these methods should yield the best results?
Thanks!
Thank you for all you do with these helpful videos
Good to see Izotope updating on nectar 3, does 4 still come with the relay option? anybody. cheers!
I'm going off the rails on the Crazy Chain!!!!
I fuc*ing love the song that you folks are demonstrating on.
So, Autolevel is like Selig, right? Also, for CPU performance reasons, I assume you can have a "working track" and then bounce that to a pre-mixed/effected new track? I know that might depend upon the DAW, obviously. Does this run stand alone as well?
posso ligar mic numa placa zomm h6 e tirar uma saida line e mandar p outra placa na entrada ausxiliar da segunda placa?
nao vou ligar noa entrada do mic nao e na entradad ausiliar, posso ou vai queimar a saida? ou entrada/?
I have Windows 10, interface VOLT 1 - but with me not work in Nectar 4 the "Baker" function. Die faces comes not to see at all. Why?
And, more better! - if I show my audio for Ozon 11 to hear, it starts to suspend, makes a crash-bang, and suggests so high loudness, that I think my computer flies away. Why?
John Burn from Germany
For some reason the standalone plugins work but Nectar 4 rack does not. Any advice? Im also using Logic
Dòes Nectar sit your vocals precisely in the mix before ozone?
Thanks Geoff for posting this tutorial! As always this is extremely helpful. Please post affiliate link to volume control feature on your belt!😀
Is it possible for the eq bands to pitch track and have dynamic gain at the same time in this version?
Absolutely fantastic tutorial and explanation!!
HI! great video. Quick question- When combining Nectar with Neoverb, what should come first in the processing chain? Or is this meant to be used as a stand alone?
At 18:08 - When the Auto-Level is placed on a Bus, does it level each track individually or bring all the individual tracks closer to the same level????????
I wonder if Geoff is going to do a deep dive into Ozone 11...I do hope so as I've just splashed on Production Suite 6...ouch!!
IZOTOPE WITH THE VOCAL HOPE
Can you make a video on using Nector 4 and other iZotope plugins for spoken diagloue, specially for audiobooks and podcasts?
We got you covered: bit.ly/3t8b5Xu 😇
Mono reverb?? 👀
So you record the vocals as different tracks & apply this as needed to each track
Maybe my ears are not working correctly but I have seen some other tutorials where I also thought the starting vocals sounded better and more natural than the mixed once with nectar…
So after neuton 4 finishes lerning in the ai power assistant, i don't get any of the knobs or screens in this video. I only have a tone and width adjustments. I'm following the steps. Hoping to learn what I'm doing wrong.
No more unmask module ?
What in the Namm show is going on ?
I have a question, lately I got nectar 4, I was wondering if the vocals aren’t loud enough should I use the autolevel volume to increase the vocals? Or I should use the fader?
came for the tutorial ended vibing to the song
Where is the assistant? I download and cannot find in logic
Backer module…if i sing something with autotune and then i have an accapella of a voice i like.. i can get the voice to sing it???????
Please check out the demo option on the linked product page to see and hear how Nectar 4 works for you.
Love you tutorials ! So Amazing !!! Thank you so much !!!!!
Can you do a tutorial on how you edit your voice for this videos?
Excellent tutorial. Guess I'm buying this....
We hope you like it!
Where from Audiolens take audio signal to capture Targets ???
I use Sonarworks that do EQ coreection for headphones and speakers and it is quiet drasticly with EQ that adds frequencies like +12dB where I have my room frequency spectrum hole.
Should I turn off Sonarworks app BEFOREI decide to take Audiolens snapshot of vocal or full song target ?
and suddenly in 2024 all pop music is full of 10 part harmonies and everyone is like wow your band is amazing
which "level" of Nektar are demoing? What is the upgrade price?
The latest version 4. About 2 something for the advanced version. But they have a bundle that I purchased you get like different products for 4 and some change
Very good walkthrough thx !
my god can we talk abt that insane acapella
can i use nectar 4 auto level on other instruments?
What mic are you using? Great video!
How can I accomplish changing my EQ and compressor settings with time? Do i just need to create a new track? Also, with Voices, how can I accomplish chanhing my harmonies with time? Primarily through MIDI?
Hi, Can Nectar 4 be automated for changing parameters during the course of the music or song?
I love Nectar 4 but I’m curious why my Stereo Width slider disappears occasionally
Logic + iZotope + NI ♥
Hi...I just purchased the Bundle with Ozone 11 Advanced, Nutron 4 Advanced, Nectar 4, etc. I'm just wondering why you'd throw ALL the audio (your mix) into the Assistant at the start...instead of just the vocal track? Is the AI that good to distinguish between the vocal, and say, a snare and midrange synth? Nice vid, and as a previous user of Ozone 10, the improvements and features in 11 Advanced are wonderful as well. You've convinced me to install Nectar 4. Guess I'll give the DSP hungry 'El Rey" a rest for the time being!
I also did that seemed the better deal to me. Because individually price wise didn’t make sense
Please please please call..can you make a video about how to get symphony 3D and stratus 3D. After we bought suite 6
please. Thanks
Hey, can you please get in touch with our authorization team directly? We're available through this form right here: bit.ly/izo-install
Awesome sauce Geoff
Do you use Nectar 4 on a vocal send or individual tracks?
Thanks for the tutorial
@IzotopeOfficial do you offer any plugin which can automatically balance all of the elements of a mix with the help of AI? Like i don’t have to move the faders of my mixer manually to level each element
Yes of course! Check out Neutron 4 and Ozone 11: bit.ly/3tOA1U9
The 5 most important words in this tutorial 'You Can Just Use Your Ears' 👍 @4:34
Hi,
iZotope vinyl does not show any percentage values when adjusting Dust, Scratches, and Wrap values.
Please release a hotfix to resolve this issue.
It's a very good plugin but not being able to precisely adjust our value when adjusting the dust, scratch and wrap values is really annoying.
I have a maybe dumb question. In auto level mode, shall i do this before doing anything else with the vocal? I can see you only have De-esser on.