Sonible true:balance, do we need this? Let's test your ears!!

In this video I take a look at the new ‪@SonibleCom‬ True Balance plugin. Is it useful or is it better to just use your ears?
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Table of Contents:
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00:00 Intro
00:15 Overview
00:47 Website information
01:39 Plugin controls
02:38 Setting a reference spectrum
04:55 Display controls
05:40 Stereo metering
07:34 How useful is this (with test)?
11:34 When to use True Balance
12:33 Outro
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[@LanewoodStudios]

Have you tried it yet? What do you think?

[@jrgroberts]

I bought it - and I grabbed the iZotope freeby. I am a former producer/engineer as well as a musician, and reckon I can balance well enough, despite years out of the business. BUT: I am now nearly 72, and in my left ear my hearing is limited to 12kHz, right ear 9kHz (at reasonable levels). So I can't judge upper air, and this plugin (and the iZotope) helps me ensure that I am not wildly out of order in the top octave. I also get younger listeners to check it out before finalising, but these are a great help for me. Interestingly, the ear maintains its transient detection, so balancing upper octave is not impossible without this, but all aids are gratefully utilised!😆

[@LanewoodStudios]

Thanks for commenting and great that these plugins are helpful. They’re great for me too 👍.

[@Lous_taunau]

really nice review, Thank you!

[@LanewoodStudios]

Glad you liked it!

[@jay1070]

True:Balance is very close to useful but I find it leads me to make EQ mistakes. Regardless of the settings the plugin seems to have an inconsistent analysis of both the references and the mix input. I even took a small section of a song, used it as a reference against itself and the plugin would have me make EQ moves even though they are identical clips.

[@LanewoodStudios]

That’s surprising. Maybe there are still bugs.

[@AirArtStudiosOfficial]

I found the same thing, I tried it and found it unbalanced my mixes more than sharpened them. Probably me not knowing fully how to set it up

[@Reg-Edit]

Izotope have a similar balance program I use it all the time this looks same Worth using especially if your room in not treated etc …

[@LanewoodStudios]

Thanks, yes I heard about the Tonal Balance Control from Izotope but haven't tried it myself.

[@Eppie55]

@@LanewoodStudios Izotope is the one I also use, as part of Ozone Advanced great tool.

[@LanewoodStudios]

@@Eppie55 still to try myself ;).

[@The_Penny_Seventeens]

I like mix 2 lol

[@LanewoodStudios]

Sure 😎

[@jamodrama]

Wouldn´t it be nice if there would be a plugin that tells us what we do wrong or what we do right. I tried to trust this plugin only to find out that it makes my mixes/masters worse. Try for your self. Even if you put a song mixed and mastered by world class engineers in world class expensive studios, these kind of plugins still "complain" - try to give you advice. Trust your monitors and your ears - do not trust these kind of plugins.

[@LanewoodStudios]

These kinds of tools are always to support what you're hearing. Your ear can be easily tricked though if you don't regularly recalibrate by listening to a reference track.

[@alexcigolini7230]

Hello and thank you for the content. i clicked on streambeats link in the comments and it points to another web page. Then i googled for streambeats but nothing. do you have any suggestions? Thanks again

[@LanewoodStudios]

Yes, unfortunately the streambeats website seems to have been replaced by senpai.tv which I think is meant to be a follow-up to streambeats. You can still stream tracks from Streambeats on Spotify, KZbin etc (which is their business model) but downloading tracks no longer seems to be possible. I guess we will have to wait on senpai.tv to offer something similar.