Mixing Vocals In-Depth: Preston “Prizzie” Reid (Usher, Ye) SILK VOCAL Walkthrough 

This is incredible timing, I was just ab to drop 2 bills on soothe2 to tame certain frequencies on my vocals the waves just drops this gem on us 😂🔥🙌🏼 I can’t wait to try it

See.....This is the waves company we all fell in love more than 10 years ago. The waves company that creates TOOLS and not just another eq plugin for the sake of stay relevant. A plugin we all needed, and today is free at same time is more affordable and better than the other one. Isnt an original idea...(we all know the) but you made it better. So for that ... ThankYou.

Big booty worship 🙏 Thank you for this plugin

That roses song was absolutely beautiful.

Just used it on a raucous live performance mix that was 99% there. It gave the vocal that final lift needed to sit perfectly in the mix without being over-bearing. Looking forward to seeing its other capabilities in future mixes.

i'm so happy this came out. getting my mixes sounding right has been the biggest struggle these past 3-4 years. i've watched hundreds, maybe into the thousands of videos on this and it's just so hit or miss whether the tutorials actually translate well into other songs, styles etc. what works for them usually sounds like total shit on mine and leaves me back at square one. when you guys added the studio verse section with all the pre made chains, that helped so much. they actually work for the most part. they all need tweaking for specific things but it's at least doubled the quality of my music. there's just something about my voice that also has these sharp frequencies (probably something I could also work on with a voice coach) but the plugins now available in the subscription and having complete chains in studio rack helped so much. for the very first time in 4 years i can actually hear my mixes transitioning well with the major league shit on spotify etc. all the options etc. have really improved the smoothness and overall dynamics etc. it feels like there is more space, more detail on everything. the frequencies all have that nice warm and fuzzy but present sound going on with them. it feels like you guys gave me a cheat code lately which i can't say thanks enough for. along with logics new mastering option plus the ozone 11 eq by izotope, i'm finally seeing things evolve in the direction i want. for the longest time i just couldn't figure out wtf was going on why my mixes didn't sound nearly as good as dres, ye's, etc. or why jelly roll, post malone, etc. just sound mixed so perfect in comparison. it's all coming together now.

Maaaan i was looking for this exact pluggin ... Looks amazing sounds amazing too ... Well done waves 🎉🎉🎉

Krazy I just got this plugin free from Waves through a black Friday sale 😅😮😂🎉

This is pretty sick... Happy it was the freebie for black Friday! Can't wait to test it out!

Thank you Preston, I really appreciate your demeanor. You have a great way of teaching.

Waves Audio has knocked it out of the park with this 1! Excellent plugin! 🔥💯

i tried it on vocals, that stuff does a good job.

CANT BELIEVE I MISSED THIS

Wow, this is something incredible you created Waves! This is what you really need at work! How could this even be given away for free? There was so much advertising around this soothe 2, no matter how much I tried to use it on different materials, it was constantly thrown into the furnace! and everything had to be solved using standard methods. But this silk really hit the spot! handsome guys, keep it up!

Very cool, can't wait to try this out on my own vocals. Thanks Waves!!

Waves EYE apprecilove you this amazing. Its not all about money good move

Literally just bought this and Fabfilter pro 3 ❤

Waves is doing a great job responding to the AI trend others advertise. Waves has major chops in UI that free them from competing like for like. Bottom line for us music makers is how easily we can find what is in our imagination. Waves is quite good at that without taking away full control from creators.

thanks a ton.....I can't wait to use it!

Waves did it again!!!

Prizzie stamped it! I’m on it.

We appreciate y’all for this

Wonder if they release something on monday🤔 as they did the last few years. But this alone sounds fantastic👍

Like this plugin❤

thank you guys for this amazing plugin!

I am rendering an interview right now. AWESOME, I only used clarity and silk to finish the job

this is perfect timing!

awesome just in time

Sounds amazing

Works a treat!

it’s kinda like the api vision eq this is so dope

Thanks Waves Audio for the nice free plugin 👋 wondering if a "big brother " of this plugin comes out, something that suited for instruments ,busses and for mastering (soothe2, Reso etc..)

thanks Waves!

Thank You So Much!

Dope!

I'm digging what I'm hearing, though I'd probably wanna drive it a bit more in some cases, or follow up with a few other inserts to really hit the sweet spot

Ai is making it a lot easier and faster!!! I’m here for it!!!

Amazing

Lindo, maravilhoso esse vst

This feels like a way more advanced version of Manny Marroquins Triple D, cant wait to start using it

soothe 2 smokes very nervously on the side, silk is king) I would really pay for this one if they didn’t give it for free)

I need that Mari World on iTunes...

3:47 "The performance is obviously there" - proceeds to play a fully auto tuned recording of a singer that I guess needs to be auto tuned.

It is free today!!! Black Friday offer 😵

its gonna be in alot of peoples tool box because after today that boy is going to be around $80 so get it while its free ! its only going to get better

My Bro PRIZZIE!!!!

Izotope nectar and neutron has this for a while and with AI assistant

I need this right now or I am giving up mixing 100% 😂🎉🎉🎉

Truly unfathomable how Waves decided this should be free. I’d pay $200 for this.

Thanks for the giveaway!

nice man

😆😂😂"meet them in the middle"... sounds like a shot at somebody LMAO

This is the first video about this plugin where the vocal sounded more clear with the plugin on. In other videos, the vocal sounded like it was getting weaker when they turned it on. Maybe it's because you're using the compressor, and it's just a little louder? I don't know. I think I want to be careful with this plugin if I use it. When I hit the 'delta' button, I don't want to hear too much being taken out.

Holy shit, I got such a nice plugin for free and I can't sing. Thank you Waves 🤷😂

I wonder if this plugin would be of any value for Jazz saxophone. Usually what works for vocals might also work well for saxophone. Any comments?

Waves didn’t even try to hide that this is heavily, heavily based off of oeksound’s “soothe” plugin

Is the Roses song out yet... Sounds great

Man you wave studio preset out do everyone on there. I need you to teach me post your courses and prices

I've got all the plugins I could ever want from Waves Audio.... I'm just waiting for Clarity VX Pro to drop price to something affordable. Seriously... I own 100+ of y'all's plugins. Just waiting... It's not like I don't have RX and Acon Digital, but Clarity does work better than both on vocals!

I like the echo you used for the acoustic song, what effect is that?

But what is the algorithm based on? Because without a reference other than just modern day mixes, what is it sourcing its decisions on? Because there’s no side chain involved from the instrumental, or a reference to human hearing and perception.

This looks an excellent plugin, but that snare is torturous.

Let me get it and see what it does to my vocals Im a metal vocalist i wonder how it works on harsh vocals

Do we need another eq after/before add Silk Vocal on?

This plugin seems like a more sophisticated Manny Marroquin Tripple D? I know Tripple D is quite good already, I would really have to hear them side by side. I also feel that Manny deserves some credit

Man, I would kill for this delay and reverb templates of Anna's song Lol

So this is like an substractive eq without guessing which freuquencys i Need to Lower ?

0:50 been using everyday? this just came out hahaha

How do you use it every day if it's new and has just been released?

Can I use it to sidechain?

now i don’t know if i should still get soothe2 lol

Maybe y'all come out with a "rent to own" method to buying your more expensive products?

Where in my Vocal chain should I add this? Or is this something I can use by itself? Please explain.

Reminds me of the soungoodizer plugin on FL studio but with a little more control.

Please what is happening to your site.. I tried purchasing the Manny EQ but it keeps giving me error 😢😢😢

Impossible de le télécharger malgré l'installation de waves...

Has anyone got a free Silk? I haven't got it til now. Waiting since friday 24th. Nothing comes to my e-mail. And I was signed up to get free Silk since 11th or 12th of November 😢

does it come with reverb and delay

How much it cost

Ok how did he get emojis in pro tools

I wish u guys would've shown him doing an Honest mix from the start, Because there's other things going on in these sessions beside the Silk Vocal Plugin but this video isn't honest because it doesn't show any of that. Vocals were damn near already there without the Silk Plugin u Guys never use dry Un-mixed vocals in your videos there's always tons of things done to the vocals that we don't see

Please suggest should I get soothe 2 or not ? Is it enough

How is this different from Soothe2?

RIP SOOTHE ;D

This is going to have a big bro version in the next few days which will probably not be as bad as the free version

Did that man say omah lay ????

Clickbait AF. This is not an in-depth mixing tutorial, haha. This is an advertisement.

The GUI is a copy of Baby Audio Plugins

This vocal track needs a swear replacer plug-in not silk plug-in

Seems like the plugin is removing a lot of the natural vibe! Often I liked the bypassed version more.

He’s room is so treated😢

La verdad no puedo apreciar nada. Son canciones y musica tan horribles que ... Pueden usar en alguien que realmente cante y no este deletreando ?

turn off drum/beats bro cant notice any effecet on vocal

How about showing how this works with different music that isn't some guy talking to a music track - How about some actual singing! This isn't music I can get into, let alone study how this plugin works.

fake

First off this aint free it comes with subscription lmao if you dont pay subscription its no longer yours so it aint free false advertising. and the guy in commercial dont use that trash plug in just use f6 and rvox