Love to see your reaction on this garbage. It's a million % justified. If I clicked a preset or a random setting generator on any plugin and it went 5db past max, I would too would be pissed off. That company is horrible.
I'm probably about twice your age, and it was kind of humbling to hear you talk about it being preferable to "work slow". I spent my entire week fighting to mix a single (classical) track in which the recording engineer managed to capture eight versions of the first half of the piece (all of them perfectly performed) but only one version of the second half, with a few glaring errors. By late Friday afternoon I had managed to replace (with samples) or repair the pitch and/or timing of all the errant notes in all of the various takes by fifteen different mics. All I wanted was a quick fix, which is why it took me twice as long as if I had simply accepted the inevitable and gotten down to work. Thanks for your always-inspiring posts!
I always debated as of late, working fast or slow...which way to go? I have found that working "Efficiently" is good, and that can be at any pace between slow and fast. I have though started working faster in terms of not ruminating on things or questioning myself too much, instead I try to work smart, efficient, and with the utmost highest quality for my deliverables as possible, and for the client, that also includes not taking forever. So it's a balance, but I WILL NOT let something out the door that I feel is not "ready", otherwise I'm not helping anybody, not myself, the client, or the listeners.
Yeah i totally get the point he was making concerning working slow, although i havr to say working fast can also be a deliberate decision to keep a fresh perspective and make most of the decisions when u dont have ear fatigue and kinda losing fresh perspective
If you got creative block, load Sound Doctor, blow up your speakers, and that will make you get out of the studio where you can touch some grass and find inspiration.
Unison needs to be put out of business. Seriously. They make these MIDI packs containing literally nothing. "Pro chords". Chord progressions that you hear on the radio all the time. And then they charge a lot of money in this case. It's crazy that they are still going. People still fall for the falls promises they make. And it pisses me off that apparently crime pays
As long as dishonest RU-vid “producers” like Bolo, Beautiful Beats, Chukki and TAETRO keep selling their viewers out to Unison, they’ll keep making $$$ and bombing RU-vid with ads.
Unison, unison, unison. Its fire. Dope beat. I don't know who the people are who they pay to pitch their shit...maybe they are established producers but I can't believe they'd sell their souls for that dollar.
@David Groeneveld "Unison needs to be put out of business" And if more people went to Trading Standards with complaints of improper use of the English language in the false advertising that these types of plugin makers use, then maybe they would be fined and stop doing these rackets. We literally, no pun intended, have them cornered purely due to their improper usage of language. When it comes to selling a product, this is obviously reprehensible. And the reason Trading Standards exists... The complaints need to have come from people with knowledge of music and the terminology, and of the actual techniques we use, to be able to explain to a non-musical Trading Standards how to attack the phrasing and terminology used in advertising.
Plugins like this want to take XLN Retro Colour and all-in-one plugs further. It's probably useful to quickly throw on dry loops to make them sound more interesting, so it's main use is to aid in laziness.
I doubt it’s even useful for that. Sound Dr is just “sugar.” Yea, you can enhance some foods with sugar but most of the time simply adding sugar doesn’t really help.
Hi Wytse, just one thing: never stop mentioning auto gain, it's essential for fast high quality mixes and it should be standard on very plug-in! Keep it up!
Appreciate you and others like Weaver Beats who are talking honestly and realistically about companies like Unison Audio. I think a good case could be made for Unison being the shadiest company in terms of business practices in the industry. Unfortunately it's the new producers who don't know any better who are their target market.
I’d love to see your review of Plug-ins That Knock. That’s one of my favorite, most used plugin and your reviews are always entertaining. Whether you love it or hate it, your videos rule!
Why on earth would they claim that this can cut your mixing time in half? Not related to mixing at all. These are aggressive production decisions, not normally handled by a mixing engineer. Confusing. I do appreciate the unique and colorful ideas, but claiming this can fix your track is just ridiculous.
Yes, but it seems completely random. It seems that the plugin did not even listen to the audio for a bit to make an informed decision based on some rule. It seems that it just went for a random configuration.
Snake oil? Well I agree, the marketing claims are ridiculous. But I also see your point towards the end. There is a huge market of new, beginner music makers that have yet to learn about common audio effects and how they work. Unfortunately, I think Unison has put in the minimum effort when it comes to delivering a product that is truly going to help these producers with their mixes. I hope we can make slowly make a difference by sharing more knowledge like you have, thanks Wytse!
@BooWhoBeats Yeah, it can't be bad to sell MIDI chords that takes a programmer an hour of coding and ask money for it (47 USD). That's why Unison receives the hate, and they deserve it. The same applies to anyone, who's advertising for them (that is gaining money from Unison for their "opinion").
@BooWhoBeats They get a lot of hate because they disrespect the users, treating them as dumb rookies with no possibility of learning at least a bit of the craft.
@BooWhoBeats - Unison gets a lot of hate because they aggressively market their obscenely overpriced garbage (in spite of IllAngelo’s “endorsement” - BS, you don’t really believe that Michael Jordan actually drove a Chevy blazer do you?) toward newbs as an alternative to knowledge, skill and learning. Unison gets a lot of hate because they attack honest negative RU-vid reviews with bogus copyright strike takedowns. Unison gets a lot of hate because they secretly pay RU-vid influencers to deceive viewers with fluff-piece videos disguised as unbiased reviews. Unison gets a lot of hate because they bombard RU-vid with ads for junk that no one needs or (if they have 10 minutes of experience) wants. Unison earns the hate…100x over.
Someone should do an autogain plugin. Just one instance that you put before anything else, then another instance at the end. The first instance listens to the audio track, the second adjusts any gain changes to the signal.
They probably spent more time on the UI rather than the audio filter's . Glad you review these plugins man , seriously annoyed myself with all the bs plugins out there to make a quick buck.
Keep doing this, as apart from being entertaining your helping amateur song writers as myself out with advice on what to get and what to avoid, a God send in the sea of plug in's out there. Helps keep me slightly less broke too.
For me you are a community hero. Thanks for yours efforts. My question for you is if you are continuing loosing your energy and time in this kind of craps? Or Evaluating if this kind of rare new plug ins deserve the attention.
its perfect for unison audios target demographic. All their stuff is sold on the pretense of not learning how to do your job. They make midi chord packs ffs.
@@HOLLASOUNDS I know many teenagers that would bully each other for using chord packs, not that I support that. Just saying that being young doesn't have to mean that they rely on these things. Especially if they cost money.
Unison doesn’t make anything that isn’t snake oil. Only the most gullible newbie would fall for Unison’s shady marketing tactics and buy their one-button garbage. Some people learn by making mistakes, others learn from the mistakes of others.
I said this in my review and everything you said here is exactly how alot of producers feel. Overpriced, over marketed, and just a money grab. Unison is trash. Great vid family.
Wow. Everything you just did I could do on even FL Studio MOBILE with just their distortion and multi fx filter plug-ins. I can't believe that they're really trying to rip people off like that! Thank you for this bro!
The biggest thing that pisses me off is the price. If it was like $20 then fine, its a cool tool to get some different sounds that you wouldn't think of. But this thing is like $300. Its such a scam.
Feel like if it was marketed as a play thing instead of a one-stop fix to all your production and MIXING (!?) inadequacies, I would be so much more willing to accept it lol. Thanks so much for your videos, Wytse.
I understand where you’re coming from DJ Ave McRee spoke about unison audios bad business practices they are so quick to take peoples videos down for giving out critique or an honest person‘s point of view of this plug-in or any of their plug-ins and every single time I go on social media or look at a RU-vid video they just cluster it up with their advertisements which is highly annoying instead of spending so much money on ads focus on trying to make a good quality product that people can use they are known for doing stupid crap like this
The market for these plugins will potentially eat this up. They know their market and know that these people who think they're an engineer cos they heard the term "gain staging" once will listen if they read promo blurb that calls the plugin a mixing tool. It's the reason they go so hard on the UI. Nice graphics means that someone who shops with their eyes will want to buy. This kinda plugin is the same as guys with no credits and no/limited audio examples selling mixing consultations over Twitter. It's capitalising on the market of those who are not as educated or deep into the audio field. Always winds me up when more of this kinda stuff is released!
Thanks for taking the hit for the team! Perhaps a plugin developer out there might like to develop a separate autogain plugin for products like this! But then again that might just encourage the crappy developers not to bother!
If you love shortcuts you should get a programmable gaming keyboard - I have literally hundreds (!) of shortcuts setup for loading plugins & instruments instantly so I keep a colour-coded spreadsheet (as pdf) open on my side display so I don’t forget the key-codes - helps me actually use the 1000s of plugins I now own too!
Unison are the "raid Shadow legends" of music software. The business model is basically spend enough on ads to hopefully con enough people into buying something before they realise the con. Wanna buy the minor scale? 'Cause they'll sell it to you! 🤣 You'll notice they don't offer refunds. I wonder actually if some of their sales practices might actually be illegal in the EU.
I tough the same of my colleagues, the interface is like a video game and every process doesn't show up an advance mode for professionals. Is a disaster in my opinion and really expensive at all. Thanks White Sea for your sincerely opinion.
"The industry" and "plugin product & marketing" are two different, and hopefully separate things. So Wytse, "the industry" and the ones that work within it, is/are already "evolved". Whilst this issue here is purely about consumerism. Music per se is about art. A lot of blurbs I read for a product should be reported to the Trading Standards brigade for false marketing. And that's based purely on English language and the proper use of it. The complaints need to have come from people with knowledge of music and the terminology, and of the actual techniques we use, to be able to explain to a non-musical Trading Standards how to attack the phrasing and terminology used in advertising. Incorrect use of language in advertising is reprehensible.
Unison... the brand that sells midi packs, preset banks, sample packs, and plugins like midi wizard and drum monkey... all kinds of stuff that in general attracts people who have no clue what the fuck they're doing. slap a few midi chord progressions on a track, add an instrument... ok, that sounds like, like something. throw some sample loops in there... yeah we're on a roll here... then slap some of their random plugins, at random click a few things, then you suddenly get a 'sound' like you didn't hear before and you go 'wow look what this thing does' and they think they actually achieved something. then they let their Beavis and Butthead friends listen to it ... hu-hu-huhuuu... rocks dude, rocks yeah... hu-hu-hu-hu Just think... Unison makes money with this shit. nuff said.
Wytse, one tip for saving your speakers when using plugins like this without auto gain, run a FabFilter L2 with massive look ahead and as transparent setting as possible, and stomp down on that shit before it hits your converters. I definitely wouldn't want my speakers popping, and with the Quasars, I imagine you probably wouldn't either.
Since their "Chord Packs" and the flood of RU-vid with meaningless ads showing meangless - but important looking - so called "producers" ... I will NEVER EVER buy anything from Unison in my whole life.
I always enjoy these reviews. Even if I have no interest in the item being reviewed I will watch for the entertainment as well as the wisdom being imparted. I try to have an open mind but in the case of this product I will say the developers offended my intelligence within seconds of seeing the childish interface. I can now see the spam ads with the same bozo's from the chord pack ads who were soooo impressed with a basic chord progression saying how "dope" this plugin is and how you can now mix with out learning anything at all about music production. (shaking my head...)
Ok. Ok. I get that the advertisement is way off, but have you actually tried to see if you can dial each module to your liking? I’m not defending this plugin at all. I’m not shaming you at all for your point of view because it is valid. If someone didn’t have to depend on the throw of the dice, could you make it sound good?
i dont like UNISON i block them everywhere i see them on social platforms i advice anyone to do the same they spam advertisements everywhere They expect you to buy there plugins upfront without trial only find out its not good at all everything they make is useless and can make you feel stupid if your just starting out in production . just my opinion ?
Thanks... I felt this thing was the biggest snake oil pos that I have ever seen. Even the "As seen on TV" style of website was cringe worthy. Unison is the definition of snake oil.
It's like they are asking their children for advice on making plugins for adults and then watching the adults rage about not being able to use something that has been made by children. Because that's all they are making, frustrating toys for adults and enjoyable toys for children. Have you tried putting a child in front of this plugin and making them click that big red knob a few times? Also, if you do intend on putting your child or baby in front of this plugin, please remember to either add a limiter to the output and/or use ear protection on your child. NO GAINSTAGING!!!!
I ALWAYS ignore anything from Unison that mysteriously arrives in my inbox after having once been conned into buying a chord pack that turned out to be useless (I was expecting some interesting progressions to spark ideas - more fool me). Yes - this is most definitely snake oil - but hey, there is money in that right?
Literal "Throw shit on the wall and see what sticks" plugin :D LOL, but it could be useful as a tool to get yourself unstuck from a creative knot; like Obligue Strategies cards for mixing.
Even if it sounded great (which it doesn't), where's the fun in using this? No personal decisions, no experimentation, no happy accidents. I'm saying this in the context of things done by THE MIXER, not being done for them via AI. Just MEH.
I trust only few plugins companies like Fab Filter, Melda Production and few more. These other players only want quick $$, which in long run is not good business model. This plugin you just reviewed is complete garbage. Agree 100%.
I'd love to hear from some plugin makers on this topic. It must thoroughly disgust them when they think about the money of naive customers going to Unison when it could have been going to developers that are in the business for the long haul and that have a genuine desire to help people learn to make better music.
agree unison is one of the most toxic companies ... with their commercials they are the symbolisem of eveything that is worng with music industry and marketing in general ....
TLDR: Often times a faster mix is a better mix since your constantly fighting objectivity. I get what your saying about working slower but honestly I think that often times a faster mix/master is usually a better one (in most cases) that’s because as soon as you listen to the track for the first time your on the clock for the loss of your objectivity, if you give yourself let’s say a week to mix a song you’ll ponder over every decision instead of doing something (I’m not saying sacrifice any quality I mean working as quickly as you can while making sure to address all the issues that present to you) Even when you take a break your objectivity has taken a hit, it’s because you know what the song sounds like, even if you forget about the song you’ll be subtly trying to push it into another direction because it’s not “good enough “ or “done yet” we all have a session that we’ve been tinkering with for years even after it’s been released just because you didn’t get it “perfect” whereas if you give yourself, let’s say, a day to get an initial mix done, you’ll work fast and not split hairs about relativity irrelevant decisions like which eq or compressor to use, this is why knowing your tools inside out is invaluable since as soon as you hear something you think “x tool could fix that” or “that could use some automation, working quickly removes most of the perfectionism and makes you focus on solving the problems in front of you.
Ah... the Unison midi chord pack dudes. and they also stick in your mailbox...piece from the email 'And you’ve seen how excited thousands of producers are about the Unison Sound Doctor' I wouldn't even give it to my kids to play with. thx 4 the vid.
Unison audio is the reason I uninstalled my RU-vid app on my iPad and use the Brave Browser now. I just could not stand to watch another Unison commercial with that idiot Chukki going, “Aaaahhhhhhhh!” over a ninth chord anymore.
@@Nightowl427272 "mmmm ahhhh wow i would never come up with a progression like that" actually one good thing about unison audio ads is that they help you avoid all these youtubers you should never listen to.. you just have to check if they did a sponsored video for unison
