I’ve only had Smart:EQ 4 for a month or so, but hands-down it’s better than Neutron (strictly from an EQ perspective). Neutron comes with other modules such as a compressor, exciter (for harmonic distortion/saturation) and a few others. So it really depends on what your needs are. But from a EQ feature perspective, I think Sonible did a fantastic job with the Smart:EQ.
How would you approach this, if you're mixing live ... the tools you there suggest builds upon the the total latency like crazy, and way beyond anything acceptable. My problem is that every musician in the band, have each it's own ambassador sitting in the audience, and are likely to blame the sound guy, for the somewhat poorly arranged piece of music?
Live sound is a little different. It depends heavily on the sound of the room and equipment available. If the room or venue is not treated for reflections, that will impact the sound. The first thing you need to do is balance the room. Then instruments and vocalists. Analogue gear helps since you won’t get the latency you get from running all of the software. There are also tools like Gullfoss Live which is built to run on low latency. That will give you some adaptive/dynamic EQ… My best advice is work with the tools you have and don’t concern yourself with others that may be in the audience that blame the sound techs.
I've done this on and off for nearly 40 years now - and expirienced the gradual turning into the digital domain, and have learned the hard way to simplify my mixes, by utilising as few channels as possible - which works, if the band knows what they're doing - so the point I tried to get through here was, that plugins are no substitute for musicianship I'm afraid - why then trying to repair a bad musical arrangements? It's not ducking in any form, but say inversions in the chords played, taking into account that musicians playing in each their own lanes is the recipe for failure - in the live sound environment, know the rules and when to break them .... @@InspiredWithAC
Oh, got it. And I completely agree with you and that philosophy - less is often better. And as much as tools can be helpful, they definitely can’t fix bad musical arrangements. And live mixes will always expose imperfections faster than recording in a controlled environment.
Correct. Elements focuses more on the Assistant’s “Ai” capabilities (which I personally find mediocre). It’s good for getting general mixes, but they unfortunately only give you the module controls in their Standard and Advanced versions.
