Soothe 2 Tutorial: How I Cut Harshness in a Mix 

The before and after differences were insignificant listening on a laptop. Laptops are in the top 3 listening mediums on the planet. If it makes no difference in a laptop, who cares? Not a good showcase of this exorbitantly priced product.

@@oinkooink and I'm like whaaat?! 0_0 ¬ bro, the devil is in the details!

@@DrawingBase We don't want no devil

@@oinkooink A good mix translates well on all systems, nobody mixes on laptop speakers (maybe used as an occasional reference at best), and plenty of people listen to music on headphones and decent speaker systems. Not sure why you were watching a mixing tutorial on a laptop to begin with, but you're pretty off the mark here. Hopefully in the last year you've course corrected yourself. Cheers.

@@travisyee7278 Everyone listens on laptops, phones and cheap earbuds, Travis. Snobbish audiophiles like yourself are the minority. CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERSSSSS

Glad I could help!

Did the same haha

Did you catch there black friday deal?

Glad we could help.

@@justnudgeo7662 Yes, after I watched this.

Thank you

Good tip

Same here, can't see any difference haha

@@sammas533 That's sad

You need good monitors or headphones to clearly hear the suttle effect of

It'll come with time, and like said before, good monitors.

There was just an Easter sale and i hope that there will be a Black Friday sale too this autumn.

It's a life-saver with overheads/cymbals! I was surprised he didn't show us that. I've seen dozens of high-end producers on Nail The Mix using it on overheads.

@@AnteroJokinen Price is the issue.. Do you have a link demoing it's application on a drum mix ?

Download the demo and use it on drums yourself, I just took the plunge and bought it, it instantly helped add a sound I could only call 'radio' / commercial to my mix. I used it on my already mixed vocal bus, then also on my master mix bus (I saw Disclosure use it on their master in a twitch stream recently for 'Talk' with Khalid). I have Proq3 which I also use to remove resonances, but soothe uses a non static eq which makes it way more transparent and it really cleans up nastiness that would go unheard, but you'd feel it.

@@youaintasbadasyouthink Already tried it..demo ran out.. looking for something similar at a better price point !

Don't count on it. It's a machine. Not a pair of ears.

@UC-7JvMNcAg8M6Cs7RXo-XUg thanks man...yeah that makes sense and that's pretty much what I've been doing

@@987productions Could you repeat what @UC-7JvMN.. explained?

@@djschmoov3 Basically, although there are mixbus and Aux presets in Soothe which can be used for instruments and vocals in a subtle way, it's really much better to use soothe on individual tracks (especially vocals) . The main reason for this is that each track has it's own nuances and performance and resonance. Putting Soothe on the vocal bus, for instance will effect the frequencies in a combined way, sometime leading to a flattening of the dynamics between the vairous vocal parts. Normally when you're mixing vocals you're eqing them differently to sit in the mix so this can undo that to some extent.

@@987productions Thanks! And where is a logic place to put in the chain? I’m always putting it in the beginning of the chain

@@djschmoov3 Yes, first in the chain is my recommendation, that way when you are compressing and Eqing you're not boosting unwanted frequencies

Go check out our video on PlugSearch to learn how: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9U1F7YcCFxE.html

guess you are. Though differences are not that big , it is just the diff between dirty and clean sound, if u want to hear more diff try it out on rec in big room

I'm wondering if this is a RU-vid limitation. However, I put on some studio headphones around 20 minutes in, and could hear the distinctions much better. By the end of process comparisons, (31:30), I could definitely hear the improvement. Specifically, the removal of the annoying honkiness in the Guitar.

I can notice the difference even on my phone, not to mention on the studio monitors. You have to understand what it does and train your ear.

No

@@claudianreyn4529 what's the difference?

True.

False. The guitar sound is far better after soothe, get yourself some better monitors if the difference isn't striking to you. The harsh resonances in the high mids and the boxiness of the low mids from the room were tamed well - as the most obvious improvements. The original recording sucked ass, not sure why you''re defending it in the first place. This is THE best option for that poorly tracked elec gtr.

Still the best Soothe 2 tutorial itw tho