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

[@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 👍.

[@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

[@TracingFlares]

i bought this.. its ok but i think there are so many things missing.. also with izotope. These manufacturers still do not get what it takes to make good referencing! For example where is the gain match button.. we need this to be able to make better adjustments.. also no mid side soloing... i personally need the calculation time to be adjustable and not fixed. this plug just giving very little possibilities... 😊 but thank you😊

[@LanewoodStudios]

@@TracingFlares good ideas for improving this plugin.

[@TracingFlares]

thanks, this is not about improving here and there... i think its time to put all things we need in one place... prety shure here you, me and many others continuously going from one plug to another.. Metric Ab here, scope there, insight and what ever... also i do not like much companies that fool us by divinding things and sell things apoart from each other under!! so it for there bussiness model but not for funcionallity in any sense. But your Job is great!

[@Lous_taunau]

really nice review, Thank you!

[@LanewoodStudios]

Glad you liked it!

[@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.