Very very helpful!..... It's definitely a lot more in depth than Track Spacer, and would take some time to learn. It's a little over my head but I'm here to learn 😉👍
You did show an audio example of the phase aligner, but you demonstrated a terrible use for it rather than a very good use for it, which is one of its very strong points compared to other plug-ins that do what it does. I think it’s unfortunate that that is the audio example you used to show a negative, rather than show how to use it as a strong point. Like you mentioned a kick, and another sample is the ideal way to use it. It’s unfortunate that you did not demonstrate that via audio especially if you “don’t show audio examples” yet chose to show a negative example. That just shows the negative picture for your audience, when you could’ve showed how useful it is for when people add samples. And a lot of people do do that and they have no idea that they are conflicting in their phase relationships. As we can see, people are comparing it to soothe and track spacer missing point about phase and leveling relationships that those plug-ins don’t address, which is really what makes fuser unique. And I think your audience missed that opportunity. Love ya anyway! Thank you!
so would u recommend Fuser over trackspacer? I read on reddit that trackspacer has phasing issues. Also at 4:27 u say, "i wouldn't worry about it too much"... what do u mean? don't worry that the attack & release are very quick?
Showing how an audio plugin works without showing it on audio is like showing some painting technics in the dark. This is not a tutorial, it’s an audio manual.
Actually, it was a review :) Ever heard of that? ;) I liked the way Wytse explained this one. It's far more useful to me to understand the tool's application and see how the interface works than trying to guess what it does by listening to the compressed, low quality YT audio. I definitely liked the plug-in, I'm going to give it a try.
Awesome plugin. It is a real-time savour when lining up phase with the kick and sub on the fly ... I think ur looking at this as a typical side chain. When it's more about phase alinement with the helping aid of a soft sidechain
super helpful video! watched it a bunch of times out of curiosity, do in-depth videos like this one usually do better or worse than snake oil videos? like in terms of views, comment engagement, like:dislike ratio, subscribers gained from that video alone, etc
I thought about Trackspacer, but I don't think it's as precise as Soothe 2 or TB PRO Audio DSEG 3 based on many others. I don't own either yet. I want to see more reviews first.
This was really useful, thanks. Just wondering how Fuser treats faders? Say you have it on a bass, and the fader is at -12db. And it's sidechained to a kick with the fader at -4db. Fuser won't be able to detect the faders, right? So might detect masking, even if your bass is so quiet compared to the kick that there isn't any masking. If I have that right, how do you compensate for the faders without changing any volumes in your carefully crafted mix? 😬
with all this AI around us Id be intriqued to your thoughts on this Phil Speisers 'the strip' to see if it really can do what it says it can. What do think? Worthy of a video?
Fuse cannot process the side-chain signal. It appears to function similarly to Track Spacer. Regarding side-chaining, traditionally, eg Soothe has not been designed to use external side-chain input to trigger its processing; it processes the audio that is directly fed into it. It analyses the incoming signal and applies its processing based on what it detects in that signal. 'Soothe' process by 32(?) bands and you can lift or tame these X bands with a curve.
I think this plugin is redundant if you already own soothe though, if you run it on the mids only in side-chain mode. Maybe it has one up because of the phase align feature but I don’t see myself using that very often. I’d probably just phase align the track at the source if it’s an issue.
@@wm2922 yes! A thing i do is Ducking the Instrument Bus with the Vocals on Soothes Sidechain. It's a bit of a hack and i only use it if i really need the Vocals to be in front. I try to avoid using it whenever i can because of aliasing/Artefacts with this frequency dependant reduction.
12:40 I'm not sure that is a good thing you're not showing any audio. As the famous phrase goes in movie industry; show, don't tell. While this is vastly different than movie industry and the phrase doesn't fully apply, I think there's still a grain of truth in there even in this context. Unless you are intimately familiar with compressors, it would be nigh impossible to teach you what it does only by telling so that you would truly understand it. Similarly, that expands to any other system, especially something profusely different than the underlying technology, in this case also compression. For example, when you explained the settings, the sidechain/difference dynamic gain specifically, an audio example would have vastly helped to convey the idea behind that setting. I feel like the only reason I understood what you're saying without an audio example is because I have a weird kink for applied mathematics along with my passion for music. I hope you re-consider your position. Especially when you throw the disclaimer about that different audio produces different results and users mileage may vary even without showing any audio, you just might make the disclaimer actually meaningful and use audio in these videos.
Here is our FUSER audio examples (and how to achieve them) video if you'd like to check it out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PYsGsU87etA.html
This or Soothe 2 ? Both available at Black Friday sale price - I won't buy both, and it's mostly to tame fizzy HH's or sort out kick/bass clarity that I see using one ;-)
I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HEAR THE PLUGIN IN ACTION A LITTLE MORE TO BE ABLE TO SEE TO WHAT EXTENT IT RESOLVES THE CONFLICTS IN THE MIX BUT THANKS FOR THE INFORMATION ANYWAY...
