MAAT - FiDef JENtwo - Mixing With Mike Plugin of the Week 

I'd love to see you do a blind test with this on/off. Also I'd love a null test, probably going to dl the demo just for that. Saw this quote on tjeir site which kinda made me go hmmmmm "Because FiDef is a psychoacoustic process, it may not have any impact if the listener resists its charms. We’re talking full-on Jedi mind tricks, folks."

I can definitely hear the impact of the plugin. To me it works on the depth of the mix.

That’s quite impressive. Much clearer space between the instruments.

Hey Mike great video man, I know I’m late on this one , I came across it a while ago and had forgot to grab the demo. But watching this actually got me locked in, so I’m a give it a go. Thanks

The emperor has no clothes!

i have this plugin and yes it really works i love it

Thanks Mike! I've had JENtwo for a while now and have only used on the master bus. Now I know! Absolutely a new perspective on this plugin. Much appreciated!

Hey, Mike. I've been using this since December and it works on every mix, in one way or another. I tried many null tests and it indeeds sounds different at each setting. Can you share your Spotify mixing playlist?

hammer...It opens the mix in an incredible way

I'm glad you finally review it, great video Mike. I have the plugin since its released. Now, how do i come to instantly buy it? Well, its because im using MAAT EQ Blue (before FiDef becomes a separate plugin) with built in "Exclusive proprietary FiDef®processing" It was love on the first sound :) Cheers!

I hear the pump and breath affect in a different way you all ways mention about, it gives a life to the material.

This is far from subtle and does make quite an incredible difference to the depth, separation, and even emotional interest I had while listening. I need to learn more about what this is doing and how.

It's a little like gullfoss, you can't really control it 100% but it works. Don't really like MAAT as a company though wouldn't wanna give them my money.

I heard it immediately, and yes - it’s very sweet sounding.. But I really worry that its effect may cause listening fatigue in a similar way to how recordings with excessive phase shift causes listening fatigue. Personally I would hesitate to use it on more than one or two sounds at a time, until the long-term reviews start to come in.

Great content as always! It would be interesting to know how it works with different input levels or is that meter there just to show you optimal signal to psychoacoustic noise ratio 🤔

Wasn't familiar with this - and maybe it's my somewhat ASD brain being very sensitive to this sort of thing - but to me, this isn't subtle at all. I hear it very prominently, and I very much liked what the T|HUSH algorithm was doing for the most part. I'm sure it's very program dependent, but this is super interesting. Thanks, Mike!

This is the peak of diminishing returns.

Very interesting plug in. I'll try the demo.

Its so hard for me to zoom out. What can i do to get better at zooming out?

Can't hear it, and the price is too steep for, basically, 5 presets.

In a non-blind comparison, can it be anything other than partially expectation bias, partially confirmation bias, and partially low level signal-correlated crosstalk?

I expected to not hearing something listening on a laptop right now. I do hear it very much though! edit: I also listened on the headphones, harder to tell the difference than on the laptop speakers. I'm a little puzzled...

Who was it who did this before - it was about 10, maybe even 15 years ago? Wasn't updated to current formats.

Most of the time, I can barely hear subtle compression and saturation, and this is another one of those things, for me... I mean, listening here on my laptop, that is... So, I have to fire up the big speakers and take another listen. And this is the great paradox - we may hear it, but does anyone else? And even if they do, do they care? Maybe... but a good song is really all they care about. Anyway, my question is, do you think you could approximate the effect of this plugin using a different process? Say, with a touch more eq, with a bit of saturation in a certain range, maybe using something like a Wavesfactory Spectre or something. I know it's not the same math as this, but would it suffice, for you, now that you know that this exists and what it does? And does this replace the need to do those other things?

Sounds like EQ shifts. Aren't all plugins like this just EQ?

The mix sounded flat once you disabled the plugin, your mix's never sound flat, so thumbs up,.

In my personal experience, (trialing the demo) with maat engaged i feel like the music is more engrossing and i can hear more clearly what is working or what needs work while playing a work in progress. I notice when i switch it off some sort of connection to the music goes away..It's maybe a bit like having a little late night chemical enhancement.. but i digress

hey mike, the links that are in the description are leading to some kind of scam website.

I seem to be in the minority but I didn't like it. I actually liked it at first on individual stems, but the more of it there was (i.e. with each additional instance on another stem) the less I liked it, and by the time you were engaging/bypassing on all of them, I didn't like it at all. It felt like something was in the way of hearing the music clearly. I can see how that might be the case if it is introducing focused noise since the buildup eventually got to me. I'll still be curious to follow this line of thinking in the future, but for now I think I'll pass.

So basically an advanced soundgoodizer huh, not buying it

it just adds noise, nothing more

Mike. Honestly. I know that it adds noise. But if you do this to me as a client , I will change engineers. Just a hint

Bit expensive.

The more I listened, the less effect I could hear. So I stopped listening, then I heard it!

It's not every day u come across a dithering plugin created by a nuclear physicist that has no background in audio and side hustles as a programmer, a marketing director that has no background in audio flogging snake oil :D Just saying Mike, love your videos but I am raising the yellow card on this one