sonible Smart:EQ 4 

Now we need a full detailed tutorial on dynamic eq

Oh yeah... I'm also a fan of Sonible stuff... Bought them almost everything. The results are stunning. And of course, bought them this new Smart EQ4 as soon as it was available! Best tools I have ever used!

These guys from sonible are phenomenal. I already have version 3 and it will not take long until I download version 4.

Every time I see a new plugin or I doubt of it's performance I search for your channel! Your feedbacks are always in depth, you stay authentic and you provide audio examples in different context! The best channel for this kind of content, seriously. Thanks for what you do, and keep making nice videos!

Thank you for going more in depth into the plugin and showing examples of how it works. Fantastic content. I pulled the plug and got it.

+1000 for adding tunable "learning time" to all sonible smart plugins.

I'm a fan of Smart:limit, but have been less sure about the 'smart' aspects, which put me off the EQ. But when I watched you not only divide the recommended EQ into band, but also just go in and change what you wanted, I became much more interested. I'm really not sure about the 'smart' aspect still, but everything else about these plugins looks and sounds amazing. It's not that I know better than their algorithms, it's more that I am still learning and don't want to rely on plugins that will make it too easy not to learn how to do things. Plus, I am looking to mix some less usual forms of music and soundscapes, so unusual EQ (etc,.) might be needed. Anyway: Merry Christmas Wytse! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and perspective. I wish you the happiest of years to come.

Dude, can I just say that it's really cool you review all of these plugins and give them an honest chance while also being informative and entertaining as hell? Your channel has become one of my go-to's lately and I really love it.

I'm so happy you didn't miss the adaptive function. The opposite changes i think are more to hear what you're fixing

The trick is to wait till after black friday and Christmas sales because plugin companies tend to release brand new plugins after a bunch of sales...just my observation.

Thanks for this review, it's spot on as usual :) Smart EQ3 already was my goto first EQ on my mixer channels. I don't always agree with its first curve after learning, but in no time I get the initial EQ stage right. So this is before I actually start the mixing process itself. The thing is, this first Smart EQ basically gets it right, without dominating the sound in a negative way. as a result of that, it's a lot easier to listen and make the mixing choices I want. Compression and EQ for character goes a lot faster because Smart EQ already fixed a few issues I don't have to worry about anymore. I had more issues with the group mixing though. Felt off a lot of the time for me. So I went and upgraded to Smart EQ 4. It really is much better now. I took the strings from an orchestral project, put first and second violins, violas, cellos and basses in one group, and it was just there, done. just a few minor tweaks and most of all the balance between the instruments was spot on. Just a bit of Pultec EQ after that to get the character right, especially in the low end. Pultec is a sound engineers bacon, everything is better with it :) I look forward to grouping my stem busses in one group and see how that works out. I already stopped using Fabfilter ProQ3 (though admitted, purely as EQ it's still the best there is if you are not into the AI mixing stuff), but if you like Smart EQ, this upgrade really is a no-brainer.

I have been looking forward to this one! And for the update price it's a no brainer

I am absolutely upgrading from Smart eq 3

I'm glad you can now adjust the track and group correction amounts separately. Though I'm not sure why this wasn't included from the beginning tbh, it's pretty obvious that you might want to use the group correction for unmasking without necessarily employing the suggested track correction, but at least it's there now.

Very happy they gave free upgrades for anyone who recently purchased SEQ3 🙌

Thank you for being objective and showing the advantages and disadvantages of the plugins you present in a fun and definitely informative way. More and more often I notice that I look forward to newly released versions of well-known and used plugins being presented by you, and you are definitely one of the first people I turn to in such situations. Keep it up and collect the positive energy from the thoughts of those watching your page :)

i love smart eq. I first use analog emulation plugins like some of the acustica stuff or plugin alliance, but then use smart eq on my busses or sometimes individual elements to help with the final tonal shaping and balance. The new version looks like some great additions, i will be picking it up. Also, for those who were wondering what song he's using in the video, its Sandstorm, by Darude. A rare funk remix!

ProQ3 is even quicker than you indicate at 4:50 . . . you don't need to touch the little range ring, you can just double click to make a new node as normal . . . then alt + mouse wheel scroll creates and sets the dynamic range at the same time. Or as you create a node, simply hold alt (Mac) down, then click on the yellow line and drag up/down.

Audio Engineering and video editing is a hefty workload omg

so geil!!

thank you 🤘🏼

I'd love to hear when and why you would change the M/S section one way or another. I have been trying to go full on 100% S for hard panned guitars, and 100% M for bass, vocals, and kick. Am I doing that right or should I always keep it at the 50/50 setting? Thanks for all your videos!

Been a huge fan of both smart and Q3 after trying out a number of them, and despite the fact that I bought a FabFilter plugin bundle and learned/loved/use them for mixing mastering, smart quickly become my favorite EQ of all time. Only other EQ tool I own.

Some actual active and bypass comparisons would have been nice 😁

Merry Christmas Wytse!

My free update from Smart Eq 3 is complete now, too. Very nice Plugin. I love it ❤‍🔥 Love your Videos too.

This plugin is awesome!

pretty great upgrade deal. Most plugin companies want to kill ya with fees! $29... Great review! Thanks!

Dude, I LITERALLY looked 20 minutes ago if you've posted a video about SEQ4. And now there you go. You're aweosome Wytse

What a trip!

I trust your reviews...

best eq on the market rn

Already upgraded, love all the Sonible stuff, your channel as well, but that review was a bit weak - would have love to hear more music and less talk, especially the group impact and so on - but will figure it out now for myself 😁

I apologize for yelling, “HI-ERR-ARK-IK-CULL!” at you this morning. I’m pretty sure that i cannot pronounce 95% of the Dutch vocabulary. :) Happy holidays! This plugin is so good.

I'm very happy with it's price tag. I was shocked to see that it's only $89. I figured it would be up there closer to what Fab Filter Pro Q 3 costs.

5:00 Yes I can relate. Sometimes I want to purchase a program for Windows customization...just to reduce 1 or 2 clicks lol

Do you know if it will automatically open in projects that I used version 3 on with the same settings?

Does the Smart EQ 4 have the same feature as the Fabfilter EQ where you can see the frequencies where two tracks/instruments are clashing?

Looks like a very intuitive and easy to use interface with a lot of possibilities. Reading the manual now. Sonible and Izotope, are they the leaders in AI assisted equalization?

I want to know if it could work in a live setting. Like on Waves Super-rack Performer that supports all VST3 now or Live Professor.

Great video as always! A question please. For a kick consisting of 4 or 5 different kicks, should I individually EQ each one and then group them, or should I simply route all of them to one bus and apply EQ there?

So I can safely ditch fab filter pro 3 now?

Will this work in Luna? They don't list Luna in their compatible daw list.

I'm not sure the default instrument results are very useful. To my ears the EQ is over reacting to what it hears, even when setting it to listen to a whole minute. I was finding that it sounded OK at one point of the song, but completely messed up another part, emphasizing problematic areas (especially around 200 and 500Hz). I ended up running it in tandem with a dynamic EQ and that worked quite well, but I honestly think the dynamic EQ on its own would probably do as good a job.

Can you make a video about Revoice pro 5? I would love to hear your opinion about it!

Just been trying this out as well as comp 2. So far got better results with playing around on pro-Q3 on the vocals of a song I've been spending some time on. I guess it is too early to say but so far I have the impression that the AI bit is still novice. It sounded thin and nasal on a 9 sec. attempt and a 30s one. I also tried different orders with compression and EQ and raw signal. I do like their limiter and the compressor so far seems pretty decent. Might have to give it a year before the results match the marketing at least for AI.

*We are looking forward to your review of realphones 2.0*

Tapping my fingers waiting for pro Q4. Smart EQ is still great though. :)

So, how about a Vs between a human and an AI mix and master? Using the sonible comp and EQ. No tweaks allowed. Be interesting to see how far apart they end up and if you would actually 'send it out the door'.

The upgrade costs just €29, I was pleasantly surprised with this friendly price

Tried it because of your video. This plug is insane. Huge time saver.

does it have side-chain dynamic eq??

The moment I saw the title, I went and got it xD now im watching the video hahah

I’m such a simp for Sonible man. 🤣👌

Serious question: How far away are we from full AI mix and mastering on a level that is competitive to human engineers? Like, open your project, select parameters/references, AI takes it from there?

Just watched several Smart EQ4 videos, and outside of the videos from the manufacturer, you were the only person who actually seemed to know what's going on with this plugin. Seems like there were a lot of other people with video channels who were in a rush to video out, and they were totally clueless. I don't know why they even attempted to make a video. I got a loyalty offer from Sonible on this, so it's really not an expensive plug-in for me. I'm on the fence about it, though. Using it on multiple tracks, it looks like it quickly becomes a game of three dimension chess. Yeah, it has presets for a lot of different instruments and genres, but how do I know if their presets really apply to what I'm working with at the moment? You look at the videos of it in use on a bunch of tracks, and it's doing a lot of things to a lot of things. Are those really things I want done? I know I can overrule and override the AI, but how do I know that I wouldn't have been better off making those decisions, myself, from the start? Seems like a really slippery slope to me. Once we get used to these things being around, we might fall into thinking "AI knows best" in situations where it really doesn't. Watching you grapple with "hierarchical" was amusing. I look forward to you using it often in coming videos. Now, you need to move on to onomatopoeia, sesquipedalian and Worcestershire. ;)

So with the group feature you can make it behave like a more complex Trackspacer? Or am I missing something? In other words, is there any reason to buy Trackspacer, Fuser or Unmask if you have this EQ?

I feel like every time I try to use an AI EQ plugin like this I rarely like the results... so either these plugins profiles are too broad or I just suck at mixing

How does the CPU usage compare to FabFilter?

Track+Group curve is kinda weird, I mean, for a proper mix project one should definitely have groups/busses to have independent control, in such scenario you'd have separate Track EQ and Group EQ, both available to tweak anyway

So if you sidechain a vocal into the reverse que going down...seems like you'd basically have Soothe.

I keep trying to update my Smart eq 3 today but their site is getting the hug of death! 😄 Hopefully it will calm down so I can try this out!

This thig does wonders... Tested and wow

This solves lot of things but, one dude when u put individual smarteq4 in each track, and u use a "mastering" smarteq4. Do you need analize individual tracks before and then send to mastering smarteq4 and "re analize"? Or the mastering smarteq4 analizes all and solves everything? I don t know if i m explainig well...sorry 4 my english

Too bad they still haven't added sidechain input on those dynamic bands but can't wait to pick this up anyways. (Correct me if I'm wrong?) Will be using the FREE Nova EQ for that meanwhile...

How would you compare it with Neutron 4?

We are so lucky to live in this day and age. To get such an advanced tool for a fair introduction price , that’s fantastic. 🎉 Of course at Black Friday you might get it for half the price, but come on, I don’t see why I should blame Sonible for releasing it now. I mean they don’t charge $300 for it…

Any performance improvements? I often run into CPU overloads when running several instances of V3.

Slayy Queen 💅🏽 💅🏽

I want soothe2 but now I want this one too 😅

I'm starting to hate Sonible! This is the second plugin I own that crashes. The other they fixed. Smart EQ 4 crashes when it gets results in my Reaper DAW. Then when I reopen the project, it crashes the DAW again on opening the project! I had to revert to backup files and lost a lot of work! I had to go back to Smart EQ 3, cause I can't trust version 4 to run stable!

My first impression after watching this vid is that it's a bit intimidating. It can do so much and for me it's only the first minutes of a session where I have "fresh ears". It's easy to lose track of up/down and left/right if you know what I mean. I have to stop like every 10 minutes and then go back and re-listen to see if it got better or worse - and if it's closer to what I wanted it to be. I'll have to watch more reviews of this and Pure EQ to see which one is right for me. (I try to have as few demos installed as possible to keep my system unclotted)

Killer Plugin. All Sonible Plugs are very good

Important: If you upgrade from smart:EQ 3 to smart:EQ 4 you don't pay 129 € - you pay 29 €. Annoying: You can only see the prices once you added the product to your cart and view your cart. Obviously, you need to be logged in to see your upgrade-discount price.

this or fab filter pro q3? I ams searching for a new plugin. im new to software

Is it safe to say this is like a super stripped down neutron 4?

So it's izotope neutron mixed with pro q3.

Is the upgrade price just promotional or is it going to stay the same for the next 30-60 days?

I just bought #3 a month ago. Is there a discount for people like me?

I have tried EQ4, relaxed applied to my mix, however, its still an eq :-) nothing more, nothing less. i personally do not see any advantage over ProQ3.

Hello can it replace soothe 2?

The upgrade for 29 euro is very reasonable to me.

Fab Q3 is a great tool but when comparing the sound to the Pulsar 8200 you realize that the Fab collapses thesoundstage, it has some phase issues like all the vst eq

If you don't believe Smart EQ4 is useless try this. Take a track, e.g. just some pink noise. Now use the same track as your reference in EQ4. If this worked as it should your reference should not change the track that is the same at itself? However, whatever I try bass is lowered by about 3 dB and treble increassed about the same. This is why make my mixes sound thin with EQ4.

Left & right processing, and side chain for the dynamic bands away from being a perfect Pro Q3 replacement!

What's with the nail polish??? Just curious.

I use Win 7 64 bit- all my Sonible plugins work BUT Smart EQ4 DOES NOT. I just wasted $29 to upgrade from EQ3. Beware, use the demo first to see.

Is it just me, or does Sonible not offer upgrade discounts?

It'd be great, it it worked! In the trial version, I click "learn", and the big green wheel never stops spinning. The "get result" button either stays grayed out forever, or it becomes active but clicking the button has no effect - the main screen stays faded, the wheel keeps on spinning, and I am locked out of the plugin features no matter what else I do (or undo). This happens as soon as I add a second instance of the plugin to a project in Bitwig. If I add a few instances on different tracks to a group, it only "learns" the first track, the others remain "unlearned" after any number of attempts. Which, to be honest, just about confirms my opinion of any piece of technology that gets called "smart" or "AI" these days :-) Was this release even beta-tested? Pure snake oil from my experience. Too bad, because I suck at mixing and this is exactly the kind of assistance I could use.

Now they should make Smart:Voice that has De ess, Gate, de verb, and Comp, and EQ into 1 just focus on voices

Fabfilter better watch out at this point else all these Smart plugins will start eating their lunch.

You better have MAutoDynamicEQ and Scaler EQ in the pipeline!!! I heard from a renowned mastering engineer in musical Key eq boosts/cuts have been a stable “secret” of pros. Used to be a tedious process now so many widows are open

It lacks the ability to learn the eq of a track and imprint to another, which Fab Filter has. This is extremely handy bc you can imprint the exact cuts say from kick and bass or whole mix to lead vocal and it sits perfectly. Perhaps its doing this in group mode automatically if you put them in the same lane or sidechain?

🙂👍

If anyone finds an EQ/match/whatever that doesnt just push mid and treble and lower low then congrats, but try throwing something with no bass in it through it. Something isn't right. This seems to just raise mid a little and highs a lot while lowering low. Prove me wrong? I'd be happier to think that all my own tracks plus random other tracks from random genres seem to add weight to my claim.

can i get this upgrade for free or do i need to pay for it???

Leuke video maar die nagels leiden wel af.

What mic is he using?

Wtf these plugins keep upgrading like iPhones like damn thats too much too fast lol Question: So if I have the fab3 is this eq worth it for me??

Tell them add stereo control /imaging