Thanx for the Video, Jon. I donot know, how flexible Smooth Operator is, but with reafir you can adjust the frequency curve so individually (you didn't show this), that nearly every result can be processed. For excample, you can match the analyzers curve to the process curve and from that, adjust with pencil-like tool to every curve you want. Seems complicate, but you can realise nearly every result you want. I really love reafir for this possibilities.
Great! I need to tame my acoustics quite often and ReaFir now is a new discovery in this regard. And again free with Reaper. Thank you Jon, made my day!
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Thanks. I also learnt about delta solo, which many times I wanted to check but didn't know how to.
This is exactly the problem I had to solve this week, an aggressive guitar that was just becoming a little fatiguing over time. I'm trying the reafir route.
Amazing video! You are absolutely right about investing in such products. And... It's not like smooth operator costs a ton of money. Not even a 100 bucks, so... 🤑😅
Ok wow I literally needed this today. I'm trying to remove the closet resonance from a vocal stem. Is using ReaFIR advisable to clean up the room tone in vocals? Or are there other cockos tools you'd recommend beyond EQ+multiband?
ReaFIR in subtract mode is fairly good for reducing constant background noise. In compress mode I think it may help with the low resonances from a closet if used very carefully, but I would rely more on ReaEQ with narrow cuts.
If you start with substract mode to match the analyzers curve to process curve, then switch to compress mode and use fine curve edit with mouse to adjust details, then experiment with compress ration and/or ... so to say... curve level adjust I think you can fix nearly every problem.
Ive never used ReaFir before because i hadnt used a lot of the cockos/JS plugins just because of the sheer overwhelming amount of them and also i dont know wjat any of them really do unless the name is obvious xp But i was messing with ReaFir and it was exactly what i needed for these drums Im not sure what its doing exacty, but its very good!, whatever it is xD
Tdr nova could do the same job if only its compresion attack was 0, but you can always hear a transient of the frequency you want to eliminate, after the dynamic eq
Lmao. I didn't know ReaFir could do that. Makes me wish even more now I didn't buy soothe 2 (dseq is better imo) I just hate how soothe doesn't get precise enough with it's curves and I feel I wrestle with it all the time to get it to not affect certain frequency ranges that I don't want it to affect. I'll have to try this out. I imagine bigger FFT sizes have better results
Why? RealFir really is not doing it nearly as accurately or as surgically as soothe... Not a viable replacement at all.. Now smooth operator might have been a worthwhile alternative.
@@ramspencer5492 I disagree after using it like this. Soothe affects frequencies that I tell it not too and it gets on my nerves it's AI decides for me "intelligently" as opposed to reafir which you can dial in super specific and it will grab what I want it to grab and only that. Soothe was made for the lazy mixer quite frankly. It's not specific enough. I still use the sidechain feature sometimes though. At some point I'm gonna invest in DSeq3 though. That shit is much better for this stuff.
Most de-essers are multiband compressors with a small HF, dynamic EQs set to a specific frequency, or full-band compressors with the sidechain only listening to a small HF band of the signal. Like Jon said, you can get similar results with a dynamic EQ like TDR nova but it doesn’t have the pitch tracking which would help you tame those moving resonances and is also limited in the amount of bands you can use.
Thanx for the Video, Jon. I donot know, how flexible Smooth Operator is, but with reafir you can adjust the frequency curve so individually (you didn't show this), that nearly every result can be processed. For excample, you can match the analyzers curve to the process curve and from that, adjust with pencil-like tool to every curve you want. Seems complicate, but you can realise nearly every result you want. I really love reafir for this possibilities.
Great! I need to tame my acoustics quite often and ReaFir now is a new discovery in this regard. And again free with Reaper.
Thank you Jon, made my day!
Thanks. I also learnt about delta solo, which many times I wanted to check but didn't know how to.
This is exactly the problem I had to solve this week, an aggressive guitar that was just becoming a little fatiguing over time. I'm trying the reafir route.
How'd it go?
"Today we're gonna talk about reefer"
It’s a hot button topic these days!!🤠
🎶I was gonna put some tracks on my DAW, but I got high...🎵
Great tutorial man! Thanks a lot! It's a revelation!!
Haha ! Happy to see this comparison ! Thanks !
I think I prefer the sound of ReaFIR! Good technique.
Been using Soothe, very similar. Paid as well, so it's nice that you can kind of get the same effect using a built-in plugin.
Amazing video! You are absolutely right about investing in such products. And... It's not like smooth operator costs a ton of money. Not even a 100 bucks, so... 🤑😅
Ok wow I literally needed this today. I'm trying to remove the closet resonance from a vocal stem. Is using ReaFIR advisable to clean up the room tone in vocals? Or are there other cockos tools you'd recommend beyond EQ+multiband?
ReaFIR in subtract mode is fairly good for reducing constant background noise. In compress mode I think it may help with the low resonances from a closet if used very carefully, but I would rely more on ReaEQ with narrow cuts.
If you start with substract mode to match the analyzers curve to process curve, then switch to compress mode and use fine curve edit with mouse to adjust details, then experiment with compress ration and/or ... so to say... curve level adjust I think you can fix nearly every problem.
Ive never used ReaFir before because i hadnt used a lot of the cockos/JS plugins just because of the sheer overwhelming amount of them and also i dont know wjat any of them really do unless the name is obvious xp
But i was messing with ReaFir and it was exactly what i needed for these drums
Im not sure what its doing exacty, but its very good!, whatever it is xD
I think you need higher FFT size in ReaFir to get higher fidelity!
Tdr nova could do the same job if only its compresion attack was 0, but you can always hear a transient of the frequency you want to eliminate, after the dynamic eq
I used to use Oeksounds Soothe 2. It did a great job. But I can't seem to get the vst version to run smoothly on my system with Reaper.
Mine seems to work great on my system. Are you using VST3?
Do you have explanation on the other modes of ReaFir? Like Convolve for instance.
Maybe a bigger FFT size would render better results
I tried most of the settings to see. in delta solo the larger fft sounded more tonal and smeared, and smaller was more squishy.
FFT has a trade off . Larger FFT buffer size is better for freq accuracy, but worse for time accuracy, vice versa with lower FFT buffer sizes.
Thanks the info
Wow! That saves me a lot of money!
Would both/either of these help with spoken word and sibilance?
Try Toneboosters Sibalance v3 which has gone free recently.
Thanks !
im using s operator it is cool.. i think they try to make it as Soothe's features .. i dont know
omg i never knew that reaper has delata button on every plugin
Lmao. I didn't know ReaFir could do that. Makes me wish even more now I didn't buy soothe 2 (dseq is better imo) I just hate how soothe doesn't get precise enough with it's curves and I feel I wrestle with it all the time to get it to not affect certain frequency ranges that I don't want it to affect. I'll have to try this out. I imagine bigger FFT sizes have better results
Why? RealFir really is not doing it nearly as accurately or as surgically as soothe... Not a viable replacement at all.. Now smooth operator might have been a worthwhile alternative.
@@ramspencer5492 I disagree after using it like this. Soothe affects frequencies that I tell it not too and it gets on my nerves it's AI decides for me "intelligently" as opposed to reafir which you can dial in super specific and it will grab what I want it to grab and only that. Soothe was made for the lazy mixer quite frankly. It's not specific enough. I still use the sidechain feature sometimes though. At some point I'm gonna invest in DSeq3 though. That shit is much better for this stuff.
You only get two points?
Just not sure about these plugins, they seem like character removers to me
TBProAudio DSEQ 3 is the winner here. 😁
Isn't it TBProAudio?
@@tonal.states oops, of course, corrected
@@XRaym Yep! hehe I love that plugin.
Yeah I wish I bought it instead of soothe 2 lol. Cheaper and better
Mdynamics by Melda works well too.
Couldn't you just use a deesser to get the same basic effect?
Most de-essers are multiband compressors with a small HF, dynamic EQs set to a specific frequency, or full-band compressors with the sidechain only listening to a small HF band of the signal. Like Jon said, you can get similar results with a dynamic EQ like TDR nova but it doesn’t have the pitch tracking which would help you tame those moving resonances and is also limited in the amount of bands you can use.
@@Googahgee hey.. what do u mean with pitch tracking??