I did a couple of times run into phase issues in my mixes, and the special offer ($70 instead of $100) mail about MAAT RSPhaseShifter interested me a bit, especially since I also recently saw videos about Neutron 5 and its new Phase module, I wanted to gather info on what alternatives are also there. I currently own FUSER, which has phase rotation option and different modes of phase auto-correction in side-chain. But FUSER is kinda a heavy-weight plugin. I am also 99% sure that I'll upgrade to Everything Bundle of iZotope again in January (did so 2 years ago) with a PayPal payment plan, so I'll own Neutron 5 soon enough. What I'd love is to get my hands on some Multitracks with different kinds of phase issues (not just allignment, Cubase can take care of that just fine, I believe). The way I see it, what can be done with RSPhaseShifter, could also be done with putting either Neutron 5 Phase or maybe also FUSER on different bands of Waves StudioRack, also stuff like mid-side splitting could be done there. As for side-chains in StudioRack, I will have to look on it specifically as well, didn't yet try that. I produce almost exclusively with samples and VSTs, having only really rarely recorded my voice and some SFX with a mono mic before, but I also want to learn to be able to mix and master recorded stuff with different issues and learn what kinds of problems can be fixed with some tinkering and what kinds are "fatal". I already got trial versions of Neutron 5 and RSPhaseShifter installed and only have a week left on Neutron. I tinkered around on a track I lately was working on again ("the possessor") the day before yesterday , as at least one of sub-tracks was problematic, but i think that its problem cannot be fixed by those means (a slight improvement only), I rather need to go back to the pre-bounce production phase. And the phase issues I had in my own projects before were usually of layered kicks and basses kinds, where I see FUSER as the preferred way, having used it a couple of times for it.

Hi again, everyone! I worked on a mix+master adjustment of a 2021 track and am running into problems again, mostly of the PC performance kind, what makes committing first necessary. I wanted to ask for your opinion before I do so - if the only persisting problem is the bass side-chains or if you might think that I already kind of over-treated that track to death and/or need to adjust stuff like basses' dynamic EQs first. I spent about 5 or 6 days working on the track lately, most of the time micro-editing values and often not being able to playback properly, first because of NVIDIA driver problem, then probably by using too much heavy plugins together, I already went to maximum buffer size and closed/disabled whatever I could in Windows or in the DAW's cue channels (Analysis/Reference/2nd headphone Sonarworks) before going back into the project the last times. While micro-editing those values to get rid of that damn ugly distortion in the basses when they coincide with vocals, the overall feel of the basses changed multiple times, current version not sounding the very ideal way and maybe already being too over-processed to a lackluster extent, it's hard to say. I'm also not sure if the VocalSynth2 affected tracks (the buzzing synths) sound "attractive enough" at that moment. And those VocalSynth2 tracks and the Ozone Dynamic EQ instances on the basses are causing the most of the resource load on the system that still can be saved by bouncing the single tracks... Other than that I'd probably like at the end to add some Oxygen to the Tops, but otherwise I'm content with that master. What would you say regarding those concerns or what other comments do you have? Can you maybe even recognize the clashing regions in the frequency range that should be easily adjustable between those Basses and VOX or other sounds? Am I over-limiting maybe? I'm sorry for not having labeled the single channels properly, the legend on screenshot is: red for Kicks, yellow for Tops, brown-orange for Drum-loops and stuff like Claps, green for Basses, pink for VOX, violet/dark-pink for VocalSynth2, cyan for a Synth-loop.

Hey guys, I just bought it today to use in a project. It's called Three Body Technology SpecCraft. Not ever having owned or used Soothe2, I can't compare them directly, but Soothe2 always made overall sound suffer when I saw it in action. SpecCraft can rebuild some of what it takes away in a more fitting way to my ear. I found it quite intuitive to get into today. There are videos on it on YouTube on how to use it, I hope it's fine to publish links outside "plugin deals" post, but, anyway, until Nov. 1st there's an intro sale. Half of what Soothe2 costed last Black Friday. You can do almost anything with the demo except saving plugin state. And you have to download the "retail" version after you buy and uninstall the demo first, to save you from headaches I had this morning :) https://www.threebodytech.com/en/products/speccraft They told me it won't be available in Plugin Alliance family (they have 3 plugins there now, Kirchhoff being my favorite EQ).

Was just looking through Fix The Mix events and the How To Master Your Music 6 hour course and they have SoundID on their Stereo Output chain, but don’t have the plug-in activated. Is there a reason for this?

I know, there is a "Music Links" thread there, but I wanted to start a separate thread, maybe some other people even would like to share links to their own amazing AI-generated discoveries here later. I also know that talking about "politics" and "devastating topics" is sort of discouraged here and I don't want to discuss "politics" here, please talk about the aspects of the piece itself, I warn you that the video is very dark and could appear appalling to some (but there is no graphic violence there at all). It is a Russian anti-war and anti-fascist-dictatorship piece of art, the lyrics were written by an imprisoned political art activist (I don't know anyhing about him yet) in a Russian jail. The video, music and even the voice are AI-generated by someone I can now call an "AI Artist" without laughing inside at the term. There are English subtitles, the translation is as literal as possible (though I'd translate a couple of "metric lines" a bit differently) without destroying the "flow" of listening with subs and while staying true to the original artistic style. I did now re-listen with headphones and would say that "mixing and mastering" (I'm not sure if anything was adjusted, probably pure AI-generation) are not really close to industry standard, but on my speakers I couldn't find (m)any faults in this aspect. And I know, it must be much more difficult for non-Russian-speakers to recognize that, but the voice is what blew my mind the most, I first thought that at a couple of points of time the "singing", especially in choruses, where it's feeling a tiny bit "time-warped" and auto-tuned, well, I first thought that the singer/rapper is really good, great feeling of necessary intonation and rhythm-dictated timing, but not a "true, almost divine" performer; that he's like already 99-99.5% "there". When I read that "he" was also AI-generated, my jaw almost literally fell to the ground... I don't yet feel completely obsolete before even "getting there myself all the way", but I'm rather amazed and very glad that people with great artistic vision already can create such strong pieces of art (not feeling "out of place" in a professional music video playlist on YouTube) without learning for decades how to do everything themselves or paying "megabucks" to engineers, videographers and performers.