Bloom might have been a must buy for me if a loyalty coupon or intro pricing was given 😬 As it is, I’m more than interested but I think I’ll wait for a sale, which might be Black Friday.
@thisguy5611 really???Take a look at Acustica Audio ,are they stupid giving loyalty coupon or great intro prices or they didn't spend a lot of time developing their plugins...dont be stupid at least don't talk like one....
I’ll definitely be checking this out. It seems like something that can be useful when I get tracks from clients that record in less than ideal environments. I didn’t buy Soothe until 2 months ago. I tried it on some old recordings I did when I had a small basement studio in Philly . I had lower end preamps and cheaper mics. It completely saved my cymbals without dulling them. It also helped with some harsh guitars. I’m definitely a believer in this companies work. Great Video!
I think the best advice from this video is "use it with a bit of caution." I've been using Bloom for several months and I shoot for 5-10% improvements. It's great for a lot of different use cases. But if you're going to push Bloom, it's best done in parallel (same logic as how I'd use saturation). One nitpick is that the four ranges at the top are not EQ, they're tone shapers. They control how much boost/cut is applied to the processing and appear to include priority that affects the other bands. They're not measured in dB, don't sound linear, and don't work exactly like EQ bells.
Bloom makes great choices when it comes to eq. Strangely enough the high mids can sound a bit harsh. So I use bloom to create a reference and then eq with a better sounding equalizer, the Need 533 from NoiseAsh. The Need 533 has no harshness whatsoever. The reference plugin is REFERENCE from Mastering the Mix. Hopefully this information is useful for someone. Bloom is a very useful tool in this way.
Very helpful video!! I love the reality that I have about 4 other plugins, that serve a similar purpose... BUT they produce a different flavor overall. Better to learn what they do, then apply as required. 🙂👍🧡
Back when i buyed soothe and they released soothe 2 weeks later they gave a shit and didn‘t give me the option to just get soothe2 instead. I needed to buy the full upgrade. It‘s just not a fair customer service, especially for this price.
Great video. Thank you. Great to see Gullfoss doing the same job and even better for me. By the way bloom is overpriced and offers nothing new on the market. A failed attempt to impress with price.
Everyone start boycotting oaks sound plug-ins plug-in should not be no more than $100 at tops. They want $209 these greedy losers. Set a strong message to these companies. They’re not gonna take advantage of us anymore.
I get that. But it does cost a ton of money to create and market a plugin. You are looking at at least $ 200,000 for development and marketing. Oeksound isn't one of these companies that releases a plugin every other month. They only have three in the last what 6 plus years? They really do take their time to create quality plugins. You have every right to not buy the plugin. I just feel if you want to boycott a company this one might not be the one.
Why does everyone think software should be priced as if no work is put into it. If it’s too expensive for you don’t buy it. It takes time and money to develop these things. Some plugin companies definitely try to charge a lot for recycled code dressed in a new GUI. I highly doubt Oaksound is that type of company.
I own Spiff and Soothe and was shocked that I didn't get any discount for Bloom. Disgusting and greedy behaviour of the company. Sadly they showed a middle finger to all of their loyal customers. I like the plugin but probably won't get it anytime soon
@@mdptg1990nah, $209 for a plugin is…quite a lot. It would have been nice for oeksound to take even $20 off for loyal customers that own both soothe and spiff. Of course they don’t have to, but it’s kind of the norm for plugins at this price point.
I have demo'd both Gullfoss and Bloom and I like how Bloom has some adjustments with focus on specific frequencies, compression settings and M/S. Gullfoss sounds great but you basically can only set tame/makeup amounts, bias/high general eq and high/low pass filter. Since they are essentially the same price, I think Bloom wins it slightly.
it set the levels to the wright spot where they belong,its fast and its worth that money for sure,in production time way faster then sweeping the eq and finding the bad and good frequencies ,impressed
Great vid! Will be useful to a lot of people I think. Question for you.. I'm seeing you're in Studio One a lot lately. Any particular reason? Or the session was already in studio one?
I've been mixing and mastering back in studio one for the most part. I'm a big fan of the DAW. It does a lot of things I would like PT to do but better. However there was a time when the 3rd party plugins were not acting right in S1. So I went back to Pro Tools. To me, Pro Tools is the most stable DAW out there. It's also dated. One of the main reasons I like S1 is I can click export stems and it just does it. It is a royal pain in the ass to get stems out of PT, even with Soundflow. Tons of clients want mixed stems these days, so I gotta use the daw that services me and my clients the best
