Everyone can mix now! || iZotope Neutron 4

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[sean_wave]

When I see all this kind of tools, I always think that they are sorta dangerous. I mean the beauty of working in tandem with an audio engineer is that the artist can talk about their art and their vison with an actual human being. I feel like companies are pushing individualism a little too far. Just a thought.

[spoogiedaboogieman]

For the triple threat musicians (producer, artist, engineer), this is a time saver.

[primee]

This is great if you're engineering your own music... You can focus more on being an artist, than the engineer

[Beatsbyth]

Ive paid engineers to mix and master, takes a while to get the project finished. Costs a lot. Ive just downloaded this and Ozone, all i did was gain stage and i immediately did mix assistant and then master assistant on a track, sent it to multiple people and have been told it sounds very good, it actually sounded better than the engineers i use.

[FASTFASTmusic]

I've been doing it the old fashioned way for 20 years but this looks amazing. I hate mixing I just want my music to sound good.

[PaulEubanks]

I love this. For rough mixes, or maybe just for people who are doing videography and don't know much about audio mixing, this is a HUGE time saver.

[austincelaya]

I personally love the mixing process - it’s fun, challenging, and intrinsically interesting. Plugins like this take all the fun out of it for me, regardless if it sounds good or not.

[aspekt]

I think it's great for a quick mix reference so that you can focus more on the production stage

[smglz]

I use neutron the opposite way, it has great compression and eq, and unmasking features, and maybe occasionally I'll hit the assistant if I want a starting point.

[ericpriest]

Always love the super-insightful content.

[MK-pnlm]

Easy way to get a good starting point. Helped me a lot to get bigger and fuller sounds.

[cornellchristian]

Tools like this have an audience just like tools in a pro studio, you have to start somewhere and tools like Neutron can guide you until you get your reps up like going to the gym- at first no one is gonna lift heavy weights without a spotter until you become a pro, the spotter is still there but is standing there if you need assistance.

[Yuushiboy]

Thanks for the video! I bought it for 116 USD after watching it. Black Friday Sale + Loyalty program + coupon code. I hate mastering cause I really suck at it so this will help a lot. Tried it on some old tunes and now I never want to listen to the old version of em. You got yourself a new subscriber :)

[kmac.]

My problem with AI mix assistants is that I sometimes have to spend more time correcting the sound they create than if I just pulled up a chain of things I like and started from default. This has always kept me away from plugins like Neutron which is unfortunate because I think Izotope can make some good tools. I do however think these plugins have their place, and people get good results out of them. And I will give Izotope credit because i think for what it is they've designed it nicely.

[Fatherjohn]

It’s all about mindset. These type of tools, whilst dangerous to sonic quality in the wrong hands, are incredible applications in the right hands. They can never replace human skill, the companies themselves would be the first to say that. But they can hugely enhance existing skills if used correctly

[edgarcortes]

Neutron is my go to channel strip for TV and film post production. All the modules are very useful and surgical enough for dialog, music stems, sound effects, Foley, etc. 
The low latency limiter in the output is a huge plus. I really have no use for the AI assistant, but on stubborn and dynamic dialog tracks the "sculptor" module works wonders without relying on a static eq curve that I may have to automate every other scene. 
And again the magic it does to Voice Over tracks is just wonderful. Everything in moderation of course. 
All my Neutron instances are set to enhance moderate but in very inteligible ways. Dialogue is king in TV, and smashing voices with a compressor is not my style of mixing, so Neutron has been wonderful for my taste.
Also when some of the music provided by a producer is rushed or badly mixed and an episode is due very soon again the sculpt, dynamic multi-band compression and transient designer on drum stems do wonders without the "over the top" smashing that Ozone might do in the wrong hands.
I can keep on singing its praises but that'll just be shilling for iZotope at this point (don't get me started on RX9 jejejej). 
Just my 2 cents from another side of audio engineering and mixing

[elvinlewis]

I think this is great! Music has a way of ratting out phonies, regardless of how it's derived. In the end, it still has to communicate something compelling enough, to where someone would actually consider paying for it. Hard to do, no matter the tools.

[artifexoneofficial]

I think I would still love more manual control over my mixes, but this is definitely a great tool to learn how to mix. it doesn't do all of the work for you, and it shows exactly how everything is being done

[sub-jec-tiv]

EQ on this one is a go-to. Along with FabFilter Pro Q. Sometimes you need a dynamic EQ. I use dynamic EQ for a lot of things other people use sidechain compression for. Sidechained dynamic EQ is a heck of a lot more transparent for doing things like mild ducking of a bass part on kickdrum hits. I don’t understand why so many people use compression for that, unless of course the bass part needs more compression. Compression changes the character of the sound; if you just want ducking use an EQ or something like Track Spacer!

[paulmistygatz]

Great video! Just fyi, the Unmask module isn’t just a standard ducking process. The difference is quite dramatic: Tools like Trackspacer or Nectar simply inverts one signal and puts that on the destination (inverted). But neutrons unmask module analyzes the source signal and destination signal for actual colliding frequency energies. It’s working totally different.