Wow! I am very impressed. I have to say, as an older adult whose hearing just isn’t what it was when I was younger, I find this plugin to be very very useful in making decisions more quickly where I might have spent hours on my own trying to discern the various eq curves on their own and then together. Thank you Sonible.
If you think this is awesome, try their gate for a more analogue and tight sound and proximity + for more clarity on a master!!! love this plugins!!! 🙌🏾
I wish this had an Auto-Gain to fix the frequency changes without changing gain. I could just change the output gain manually BUT this would be SMARTER😉. I wish I could incorporate additional instruments into the mix and have an Auto-Pan feature to ensure they fit seamlessly in terms of frequency and stereo spacing.
Thank you for your work, Sonible! I own most of Sonible's plugins and they make the mixing process very easy and FAST, especially for instances where you have for example a 40-60 track song and you need it done in 2 days! I like how Sonible plugins give you a great starting point and you can always tweak the settings to your liking, but it just saves a ton of time. I know multiple professionals who use Sonible's stuff and I myself have suggested and showed them to some big names here in Estonia.
It does not really make a big difference to smart:EQ's processing - but we would recommend to use sidechain compression prior to smart:EQ in the chain. That way, smart:EQ 3 does not have to resolve problems that are already resolved by sidechain ducking.
I love what you're doing on all of the Smart plugins - I just wish you had more EQ/Comp profiles. :) I've been doing some A/B testing with my current mix chain and love the results!
Hi Raborn, thanks for your kind words. Regarding profiles: We do need a lot of high quality data to create profiles. Though we are constantly gathering, it takes quite some time but we are definitely on it.
@@SonibleCom that's great to hear! I've been demoing your comp, limit, and eq and think about ready to pull the trigger on a purchase. Super-impressed.
@@rabornjohnson Awesome, I am happy you like them. You might want to check out the smart:bundle on our website www.sonible.com/smartbundle - it contains all our smart:plugins and there is a deal right now on it, a really good one.
Hello. I was wondering how would the "group imact eq" work with already applied "individual AI eq"? (Becuz they r two overlappin AI eqs that the software has to take care of in real time.)
Looks very interesting and I'd definitely use the hierarchy feature, BUT... I definitely do NOT want it automatically applying corrective curves per track or bus based on preconceived profiles. Is it possible to use the hierarchy feature to solve spectral masking issues WITHOUT having it decide for me the baseline EQ of each track?
@@SonibleCom Can I at least DISABLE all the EQ suggestions it makes, then? I can't imagine any situation in which I would want it making overall EQ decisions for me, but have lots of uses for the hierarchy feature.
@@SonibleCom I've been a tone of youtube watching on this EQ and thinking about purchasing with similar concerns to bongo. I wonder if you "tone down" the ai suggested profile or turn it off entirely (using the green "threshold" node on the eq view) could you then utilize the group feature for the spectral masking issue(s)?
The only thing confusing about this is how to group sub-mixes. Intuitively I would be putting an instance on the master track... but it seems that instead you select a submix and make a group with the other submixes.
You’re absolutely right, and yes, it sounds a bit counter intuitive - but that's the way DAWs work. On the master track all your submits are already mixed together - so the plug-in won’t be able to process them independently. Therefore, you’d load one instance onto each submix (e.g. vocal bus, drum bus, guitar bus, backing vocals) and add all these instances to the same group. That way, you can use the group processing feature of smart:EQ 3 to EQ your busses.
I have also bought this eq... But as shown here so many instances in a project ... Can this be handled by an intel i7 16gb ? Or you need a powerful cup?
We’re currently investigating this issue since it only occurs on very specific system configurations and we were not able to reproduce the bug yet. Still, we’ll continue to look into it since multiple users reported similar problems with group learning in different DAWs.
@@SonibleCom i was on the trial version when this happened. It happened on my studio and home pc. Maybe that has something to do with it. That crash bug was the only thing keeping me from buying right away. Hope you guys figure it out.
Currently smart:EQ 3 does not set cut filters. The reason for this is that users can choose the impact of the computed filter curve. If you’d now set a cut filter - and only apply a 50% weight (or wouldn’t cover the whole filter range with your weighting window) - you’d generate a really strange filter curve. Therefore, we preferred to leave a decision like setting a low cut (high pass) to the user.
And this is still the biggest thing I don't understand, whenever I create a new group I end up with an instance of it on the layers with the same name. I don't see an group just called MASTER, I do see your vocals guitar, 808 and drums watching your video which is exactly what I want. I just can't get it in Ableton without AN extra instance of Master on the layers
If I drop eq3 onto my drum bus, I can see my kick, tops, hi hat groups cool. BUT I also see "Drum Bus", which if I delete, deletes the whole bloody thing
How is this done with Maschine. So far I have to create a master group and instrument busses then applied them on an separate instance in order to record
Hi! smart:EQ 3 does not adjust the overall volume of a track, but it performs spectral mixing - and that’s typically the tricky part when trying to nicely merge multiple tracks. It uses filters to create space for tracks in higher layers if they are overlapping with tracks from lower layers. Since smart:EQ 3 has no access to the fader levels of the DAW, it assumes that all tracks have a similar loudness level for computing the filters - the actual mixing level of each track is up to your personal preference.
@@SonibleCom okay. So the best way to go is to balance each track’s volume the way you want it then apply the Smart:EQ? Or does it matter? Does the volumes affect the algorithm deciding what to EQ as far a the group function goes?
