Is this your SECRET MIXING WEAPON? || Wavesfactory - Trackspacer

INDEX:
00:00 - Intro
00:21 - Looking at the website
03:33 - Testing
07:50 - Conclusion
09:46 - Outro

[mofateam]

"guess what, that is possible by just hiring a good engineer"
That quote made my day.

[waltzguy]

I've had this plugin for about a year after discovering it on your channel.

Absolutely one of the best plugins I've ever bought. Period. It can be whisper subtle or plain destructive to create its own effect. No more trouble with snare drum cutting through loud rock mixes. I just nudge it a bit and voila, bass gets out of the way of the snare drum. I don't have to sit there fcking around with ducking and compression and getting the balance right. Great parameter control as well.. easy to use. The compression algorithm adds a little pop and sizzle and you can control the eq curve. Truly amazing plugin. I told them I found it on your channel. Send me a check

[Netsuko]

Still blows my mind how far some of the good software plugins have come over the years.

[mattbukovski]

Test it on some vocals. For me the main purpose of this plugin is to carve space in my instrumental layers/group for vocals (especially just in the mid channel). Works like magic! It just sounds like instantly there's more space for the vocals with no huge difference in minus on the backing track! Would be hardcore to try to replicate this effect with multiband compression or dynamic EQ, because this one is way more precise

[hotsince]

It's actually one of my favorite plugins. Works perfectly for mixing vocals and pads or instruments also which frequencies are crossing each other too.

[MikeBurnsArrangedAccidents]

I'm glad you were won over. I've been telling folks in the forum this is my new favorite plugin. I haven't been needing to mess with the attack and release settings and I don't go up above 35 on the main dial to avoid artifacting. I do use the HPF and LPF. A low setting around 15 to 35 on the main knob goes a long way. I think it was Gulfoss you were trying to remember. I really like it on my master but not so much on my tracks. I've yet to use Soothe on any track that benefited from it, but it's a recent purchase and all productions since have only used polished instrument libraries. UAD has a plugin that does a much better job of eliminating harsh sounds. Soothe might be great for raw home recordings with bad acoustics.

[glennannett]

Yup, been using this for ages and in it's earlier incarnations. If you use it in Mid-Side, just use the Mid and sidechain the vocal over things like pads it is amazing. It sucks the middle out and changes the whole vibe of the pad when the vocals are present!

[raavenstark]

I love so much your opinions about "how to sell a plug in" and all the "secret weapon stuffs", these kind of words are SO important for begginners

[justinbeck]

I love this thing, have been using it almost a year. Mostly useful one low settings, great for creating space in the low mids in a busy mix and super useful for getting a vocal to always cut through

[johndstanford]

This really shines on melodic instruments and vocals carving out space following the melody efficiently and transparently. Try using it to clear out conflicting backing track frequencies behind a vocal. It's magic!

[UltromanTheTacoman]

This thing is completely worth the money! I had a lead and wanted it to dynamically cut into the pad underneath it, but they were sharing frequencies along the track, just seldom at the same time. I tried doing manual automations and using multi-band compressors. It was just so much work to have them both sound great at the same time. Plopped in Trackspacer and "subtracted" some of the lead's freqs from the pad, and now they can sing in harmony together with their full sound. It's a sort of multi-tool. I've also made great use of it for just small freq-ranges on certain tracks, so I can leave in some more low-mid on effect-sounds which are automatically "merged" into the other instruments playing in the low-mid range. It's a really weird Swiss Army knife.

[bit_misfit]

This has become a go-to plugin for me lately, especially in creating space in the low end. To my ear, it feels way better than simply cutting frequencies because this actually creates some very musical movement when used in a subtle way.
I wish I didn’t like it so much (I don’t want to be lazy ha!) but used and targeted properly it kind of “glues” the mix to my ears. Just my 2 cents, but I love it.

[nanobzo]

“I would love to have such a box. (Long pause). I could put it on the shelf with all the other boxes. “ This channel is comedy gold. Your timing is hilarious 😂 🤣😂🤣

[thrillsound]

I use it since a half year and now I'm happy that it doesn't fail your check :)

[Wourghk]

It's basically a dynamic spectral EQ + a special blackbox detector. This does seem more like a sound design processor than one for mixing.
The panning selects where the effect is applied in either Left-Right or Mid-Side modes. M/S mode will be more useful more often than L/R since shaping just the mid or side signals between two elements is very useful in sound design.

[jamzdrumz]

Hey,

Trackspacer is designed to provide an improvement on traditional broadband/multiband side chain compression techniques, by using 32 band frequency specific ducking on a competing side chained instrument. It only provides ducking on clashing frequencies in the side chained signal, instead of unnecessarily compressing all frequencies within a band.

This type of processing is great to achieve greater frequency separation in your mix, right at the end of the mixing process. It’s amazing for creating space for sudden moments that need more clarity within a dense arrangement. You only really want to use this sparingly at the end of the mixing process to eek out some more separation for the focus points of your track. It’s not a secret weapon, it’s a subtle tool to be used only in the right scenario.

You can be more heavy handed when side-chaining a kick to the bass during mixing an EDM track for example.

P.S The lateral and vertical process (mid/side) modes are great for ducking the centre of a delay for example, to ensure the effect doesn’t clash with the mid range of vocal.

Cheers,

Jamie

[hgurov]

I use this for my Voiceover projects. Really helps me (without almost any engineering knowledge) to have good mixes with any music/effects under the vocals. It's brilliant.

[wlaaaaaaaaaa]

Besides vocals, it’s amazing for sidechaing/ducking reverb from any source. Add reverb on vocals or on a pad an use this plugin to control the reverb an it’s honestly crazy

[deadmandancin]

I’ve used it on both my releases. And then I’ve used it as a mixing tool for creating space for the kick.

[JimGramze]

TrackSpacer is one of my most used plugins. Beyond using it to enforce kick and bass separation, I have started using it to get the snare out of the overhead and room tracks so that I have more control of cymbals and ambience without slamming more and more snare from different tracks. Many people list TrackSpacer as their dessert island plugin, the one they cannot do without.