but WHY??!? || Mastering The Mix RESO

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[OscarRomero-iwrg]

I've seen a lot of your videos, I respect your aproach, but for people like me who are musicians trying to do music in cheap home studios, call them demos, call them whatever you like, (not everybody can pay for professional productions) all this type of plugins can be very helpful. I get the feeling that many of your viewers will be in the same situation as I am, because if you're a professional, why watch this when you have all the knowlegde at your disposal and the gear to do it right?? Just something to consider.

[CeZarMusic]

Man, I hate it when you ditch plugins so fast. I already have Reso and I can only tell you this: it saves time, I hate searching for resonances on each track before I even start mixing, it takes a lot of time and if I can get help with that and speed up the process it's great!

[rubberplant]

All recording is not about songs and synthesizers. I find these plugins, especially useful, as I am experiementing with sound, a process that has been causing problems in the improvised recordings of experiemntal styles since before I was born, and historically many albums have had problems that could be resolved by stuff like this plugin without the right people with the right approach to take care of them. Music isn't just about professional recording procedures. That is why music no longer requires expensive studios and mastering etc. This plugin will also help out anyone not using the right settings in things like iZotope's Ozone (which doesn't not provide such great visual feedback). etc., etc. ... still have your rant about it from your 'studio perspective'. Fair enough :)

[phadrus]

Agreed. Drives me nuts when people sweep eq for resonances they didn’t hear to start with. Everything sounds like a problem when you boost it 10-20db and sweep.

[germanher]

the "thing" is that its dynamic, what you describe you do is either static so it applies "the fix" the whole time until you "unfix" it manually

[thethirdwave]

Often these 'resonances' are fundamental frequencies and will make your instrument sound thin if you cut it. if there is a resonance which is not in the key of your song it is most likely one that you want to cut

[Stormgnome]

I once saw 'mixing tips' on how to mix synths.
The dude played a saw-wave based synth sound from a plugin and proceeded to notch out all the 'resonances', aka harmonics of the sound.

[_TheModernCreative]

Time is a luxury when hitting.deadlines and such. Plugs like this really help move the process along. This technique has been used for decades and this plug removes all the steps to set up so you can get to work. I definitely picked it up (highly recommend it for those who have a hard time hearing and identifying problematic frequencies)

[johanjuarez]

I think you get the most from these plugins if you're sound designing harsh distorted stuff or if you record audio in a resonant room. In my workflow, I put a lot of distortion and weird shit in my chains so it's helpful to have a quick soothe. Let's me quickly cut out a lot of crap and proceed to the next task I have in my mind at the moment, it's really in the creative process. Whenever I record though, I have to control quite a lot of bad room resonances, cause my room is really small. In this case, Mastering the Mix's solution isn't quick enough for me. Either way I'd go for pro q and add a few dynamic bells or put sooth if there are too many spikes in the spectrum I'd rather not have.

[matthisschwarz]

I think the reason why these type of plugins are popular is that so many people are recording things in small untreated rooms at close range. Those type of scenarios are just so prone to produce yucky comb filtering or resonances. And since the effects change with varying distance and angel it's sometimes hard to deal with them with just an EQ. If you have a decently sized room that is treated, don't have to record everything super close, oe just generally know what you're doing when you're micing things up, you'll run into a lot less problems like that. However we all mess up a recording like that every now and then, so I guess if those plugins are a good way to fix it just find one that works for you and done.

[palebluedotstudios]

That's what I found too: it creates a bunch of nodes that have to be deleted. I got the best results just using my ears to add the frequency and adjust the Q to taste. But then it really seemed about the same as a dynamic EQ by that point.

[noone]

As someone who does sound design, a lot of the sounds I make can have harsh resonant peaks so I can see it being useful for instruments or tracks rather than for the master bus.

[asymmetrymedia]

In metal music you deal with a bit more resonances due to heavy distortion.
And sometimes you just get zo so well recorded tracks from your clients.

However, i find this plugin not to be a timesaver. It identifies a bunch of spots that don't need your attention and when you do it manually, you can just use fabfilter pro q or any other dynamic eq.

This kind of brings back memories of everyone putting soothe on all their tracks.
This trend to focus on resonances makes people look for resonances where there are none and apply fixes where you don't need any.

That's just my 2 cents

[privateer]

I've found these types of plugins very useful for voiceovers that are recorded too close to the mic. They let me dial down the proximity effect without completely removing the low end of the voice. Of course if clients would learn not to eat the mic I wouldn't need these. For music they are mostly unnecessary.

[akzentprod]

I wonder if the extra resonance points after using the EQ were “found” due to using zero latency when creating the resonance high q notch. Would be interesting to see if mac linear phase made that song only have that 1 frequency as an issue rather than all the other points around it.

Not a big issue at the end of the day, but a thought that came to my mind after seeing how it reacted.

[williamshaneblyth]

Us bedroom dudes who don't have knowledge this helps us see and learn. We are all fairly newbies thats why i bought Reso it hekped me see it and learn. Im not rich enough to buy ProQ id love but it takes so long to understand stuff when your got a family and 40 uour a week job. This is so many of our lives reality.

[AndrewSouthworth]

This seems like a decent tool for individual layers but FabFilter's EQ also works great for that, and most of the time any old EQ will be good enough - depending on the situation it doesn't always need to be dynamic. I guess the selling point of this is that it finds it for you automatically, but if you can't hear the resonance yourself you probably don't need to correct it, which makes me think this is more of a beginner's training wheel plugin which is still a valid reason to exist.

[dropical]

The use case may be too specific but would love to see a review of Decap’s KNOCK plugin for drums. Love the channel! 🤙🏼🤝

[Beatsbasteln]

i love resonance surpression plugins. i have not tested this one but soothe2 is the one i use already. i'm doing exactly what you like the least: throwing it on random material to see what it does. but unlike what you said i don't do that because i "trust" it to always make things better automatically, but i use it because i have experienced that sometimes there are certain resonances that are quite masked in my perception and that plugin brings my attention to these details. then i can still decide if or how much i want of it. i'm often listening to some really old music from times before music was processed digitally and i love the vibe. but still i just can't help but think that it would have been cool if they have had the same technology we have. ofc that's kind of a simplified thought because if they had resonance surpression in the mix they'd also have it in sounddesign already and some sounds would have been made completely differently, but if you image this kind of processor only being available in the mix in the 60s already there'd've been a lot of trippy tracks with a smoother mix that you can turn much louder before it's getting kinda annoying, and i really like that thought

[dykodesigns]

This version Sandstorm sounds very boomy to me. I think it’s a problem in the arrangement, it can be tempting to keep adding layer on layer of synths on top each other. It’s like painting, knowing when the composition is finished, when something is enough. If you keep mixing paints and adding layers you get the colour brown and don’t recognize the picture anymore. Sometimes less is more = more clarity of sound.