Soothe 2 Tutorial: How I Cut Harshness in a Mix

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Want to really learn how to use one of the most helpful plugins to come out in the last 10 years? In this video you're going to learn how to set up OekSound's Soothe 2 for any instrument in your mix.
Learn more about Soothe 2 here: oeksound.com/plugins/soothe2/
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[@VINISAMPLES]

This is hands down the best Soothe 2 tutorial on KZbin

[@oinkooink]

The before and after differences were insignificant listening on a laptop. Laptops are in the top 3 listening mediums on the planet. If it makes no difference in a laptop, who cares? Not a good showcase of this exorbitantly priced product.

[@DrawingBase]

@@oinkooink and I'm like whaaat?! 0_0 ¬ bro, the devil is in the details!

[@oinkooink]

@@DrawingBase We don't want no devil

[@travisyee7278]

@@oinkooink A good mix translates well on all systems, nobody mixes on laptop speakers (maybe used as an occasional reference at best), and plenty of people listen to music on headphones and decent speaker systems. Not sure why you were watching a mixing tutorial on a laptop to begin with, but you're pretty off the mark here. Hopefully in the last year you've course corrected yourself. Cheers.

[@oinkooink]

@@travisyee7278 Everyone listens on laptops, phones and cheap earbuds, Travis. Snobbish audiophiles like yourself are the minority. CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERSSSSS

[@mixbygygyondbeat1295]

This is the best tutorial on soothe 2 I have seen so far thanks a lot.

[@RiversideProductionz]

Thanks for the walkthrough on this new plugin, i bought it a week ago and felt like I wasn't using it properly until now : )

[@masteringcom]

Glad I could help!

[@everestwitman]

Thanks, this really showed me how to properly work with soothe2. I've been working with some terribly recorded tracks, and this was able to completely take away the annoying resonant frequencies. The difference with and without is night and day side by side, and I wasn't able to reproduce the same results as well with Neutron Sculptor or a dynamic EQ. Will be picking up Soothe on sale for 150 euros this coming Easter weekend.

[@AmazingKiwiCZLP]

Did the same haha

[@jeffsnider9869]

love soothe. it can get roboty on the vocals sometimes, but everything else sounds good if used in a balanced way.

[@PennyroyallBlew]

Thank youuuuuuu! This plugin is so good but so confusing at the same time. Your walkthrough was very helpful to better understand how it exactly works.

[@terap7587]

Thank you for this tutorial. You are the only one who actually helped me understand what this plugin is all about. Great job!

[@andreirobert18]

Best tutorial you make it look so much easier now! Thanks and subbed!

[@michaelduff2382]

Haven't finished the video so I'm not sure if this is covered, but to me the most powerful application of this plugin is when it's used in sidechain mode.

[@JohnWallsrockmusic]

Thanks Dylan!! Very easy to understand and everything covered.

[@HEARDIFFERENT]

THIS IS PURE GOLD CONTENT.!!! THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH MATE.!!!❤❤❤👏👏👏

[@tntstudios4780]

very helpful tips.....thank you you help the community....we all love you and your lessons... :)

[@chaddonal4331]

This was outstanding! Thank you so much. Clear, thorough, really helpful!

[@justnudgeo]

Did you catch there black friday deal?

[@masteringcom]

Glad we could help.

[@chaddonal4331]

@@justnudgeo Yes, after I watched this.

[@BouchayBeats]

had this video in my watch later list for months, just watched it now and definitelity worth it ! thanks a lot

[@soysos.tuffsound]

Thanks for running thru this. Nice, clean and concise.

[@OfficialBRAWLY]

Awesome tutorial - so diligent a patient with the information provided. But never felt like it was dragging. Keep it up!!

[@captaindoeverything]

musician on a mission you say, well I say, Mission Accomplished as this was most helpful, thank you.

[@SeaSquared]

This was really really great man. Thanks for making this. So so helpful

[@MartianMoon]

This is a really fantastic tutorial, thank you.

[@NelsonSantoni]

Thank you for this very useful and deep tutorial!

[@iankelly-danslestudio2124]

That's very well explained and very useful, thank You! (I think I would compare the "depth" knob to a "ratio" rather than "mix" but maybe that's me)

[@musicbykthomas]

Awesome tutorial. Can't wait to try it out!

[@raindaresmusic]

resonance reducer is perfect. thanks for the video!

[@KOMATECH.]

What a plug-in. Love it!

[@rivella99]

Workflow starts at 18:29.

[@coldskoolbeatz]

Thank you

[@diegoconchairarrazabal8348]

What a good tutorial! Thank you so much buddy✌🏻

[@thykapow]

This was really well explained! Thank you!

[@RH3D]

Every tutorial ever: "here's before...... and here's after......" >me: Guess im deaf.

[@sammas533]

Same here, can't see any difference haha

[@cerebralcoma4850]

@@sammas533 That's sad

[@fikrihaikal837]

You need good monitors or headphones to clearly hear the suttle effect of

[@1Latettaja1]

It'll come with time, and like said before, good monitors.

[@perspers2030]

Years later post but for anyone new coming here. I couldn’t hear either until I practiced eq more. The more I learned to listen the more the changes are clear as day now.

[@MELOPSMUSIC]

One of the best tutorial !

[@GurowngSarep]

useful tutorial video ever for Soothe 2 Thanks Guy

[@SkurgeBeatz]

Brilliant video 👏👏

[@jeffsnider9869]

I found that alot of times slamming the trim in soothe after cutting resonances brings in some out of balance hardness. Instead I like to use an analog style EQ to bring back some volume in just the places i previously cut.

[@Gabriel_Mercado]

Good tip

[@danieloswald2210]

Do you usually use soothe2 as first plugin in the chain? You mentioned you use it before the mixing stage so I assume it goes first. Thanks for this video. Super awesome!

[@Avatar7x7]

Like the plug-in ..my only issue is it costs $199 and almost never goes on sale.. Key word subtle.. like you stated in the video the overall effect is subtle and if I'm already using Izotope plugs along with other stuff and getting good results ... it's like .. does this plug-in make that much of a difference at $200 bones ... I dunno ... to my ear it sounded best on the acoustic guitar example.. Don't get me wrong..I see it's value but I'd see it even clearer if it cost $100 bones.. 😁

[@rivella99]

There was just an Easter sale and i hope that there will be a Black Friday sale too this autumn.

[@AnteroJokinen]

It's a life-saver with overheads/cymbals! I was surprised he didn't show us that. I've seen dozens of high-end producers on Nail The Mix using it on overheads.

[@Avatar7x7]

@@AnteroJokinen Price is the issue.. Do you have a link demoing it's application on a drum mix ?

[@youaintasbadasyouthink]

Download the demo and use it on drums yourself, I just took the plunge and bought it, it instantly helped add a sound I could only call 'radio' / commercial to my mix. I used it on my already mixed vocal bus, then also on my master mix bus (I saw Disclosure use it on their master in a twitch stream recently for 'Talk' with Khalid). I have Proq3 which I also use to remove resonances, but soothe uses a non static eq which makes it way more transparent and it really cleans up nastiness that would go unheard, but you'd feel it.

[@Avatar7x7]

@@youaintasbadasyouthink Already tried it..demo ran out.. looking for something similar at a better price point !

[@Narokx]

Kenny Beats favorite plugin of 2020, and soon to be yours :)

[@lewisknudsen1]

such a good tutorial

[@martin_brozius]

best plugin ever

[@markmurphy5486]

Great tutorial.. thank you!

[@Elixirmusiques]

Great stuff! Thanks

[@CharafB1]

what's the diffrence between the white and blue numbers in the right of th spectrum? which one is gain reduction? thanks

[@daveming1]

Excellent - thank you!

[@williamwilson5111]

I am currently working through your EQ course (which is great) and just finished the section on sweeping and reducing resonances. If Soothe had been applied to the assignment tracks would it have closely matched the cuts you made?

[@oinkooink]

Don't count on it. It's a machine. Not a pair of ears.

[@contraspower6302]

Great video🔥🔥

[@princemaxwhoobayangbon1516]

Great job!

[@kashkai999]

best tut out there on this software 🫡

[@kavielove7383]

Isnt the point of soothe to save you doing all the manual steps yourself and save time?

[@987productions]

thanks for this, I've been thinking about buying this plugin, might try the demo first (as others have said it's quite pricey $360 AUD) to see if it's going to save me hours of Eqing. My question would be, where would you put this in your plugin chain? first before everything else to get a cleaner signal in, or at the end after you've done all your other processing? (I'm mainly talking about vocals here). Also would you recommend running this a on a bus, as in if I bus all my vocals together, rather than riunning it on each individual vocal channel. cheers

[@987productions]

@UC-7JvMNcAg8M6Cs7RXo-XUg thanks man...yeah that makes sense and that's pretty much what I've been doing

[@djschmooveofficial]

@@987productions Could you repeat what @UC-7JvMN.. explained?

[@987productions]

@@djschmooveofficial Basically, although there are mixbus and Aux presets in Soothe which can be used for instruments and vocals in a subtle way, it's really much better to use soothe on individual tracks (especially vocals) . The main reason for this is that each track has it's own nuances and performance and resonance. Putting Soothe on the vocal bus, for instance will effect the frequencies in a combined way, sometime leading to a flattening of the dynamics between the vairous vocal parts. Normally when you're mixing vocals you're eqing them differently to sit in the mix so this can undo that to some extent.

[@djschmooveofficial]

@@987productions Thanks! And where is a logic place to put in the chain? I’m always putting it in the beginning of the chain

[@987productions]

@@djschmooveofficial Yes, first in the chain is my recommendation, that way when you are compressing and Eqing you're not boosting unwanted frequencies

[@mnunbergrulz]

great info thnx!!!!

[@jacobhus1999]

30:24 how did he do that?? typing in the plugin search tool?

[@zadi42]

Thanks a lot 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@dsr4902]

Is it work for heavy bass?

[@retsmej]

very powerful plugin, just like DSEQ and MSpectralDynamics.

[@sniglarsomjag7333]

You had me until you started step one, then you absolutely killed me

[@MaxiGoethling]

Oh my god, I wish I had foud out about this earlier

[@YC-757]

음 쉬운 영어로 잘 알려주네~ 고마워 형~^^

[@home_stay_home]

btw, how did you do the quick search at 30:25?

[@masteringcom]

Go check out our video on PlugSearch to learn how: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4aUd2qPmKh5rqc

[@MLyve]

felt like I was watching a Easter egg video for Cod lmfaoo

[@Jacobthebuddha]

tasteful edits lol love the content

[@_besmusique]

thanks

[@aromixmusic]

tnx !

[@KYUPRUSMUSIC]

Am I the only one who cannot hear difference in before and after ? :(

[@ilyakalinin2660]

guess you are. Though differences are not that big , it is just the diff between dirty and clean sound, if u want to hear more diff try it out on rec in big room

[@chaddonal4331]

I'm wondering if this is a KZbin limitation. However, I put on some studio headphones around 20 minutes in, and could hear the distinctions much better. By the end of process comparisons, (31:30), I could definitely hear the improvement. Specifically, the removal of the annoying honkiness in the Guitar.

[@claudianreyn4529]

I can notice the difference even on my phone, not to mention on the studio monitors. You have to understand what it does and train your ear.

[@mtlane86]

Normal EQ: Step 1, find the nasty Soothe: Step 3, find the nasty

[@dsr4902]

Same as compressor isn't it?

[@claudianreyn4529]

No

[@dsr4902]

@@claudianreyn4529 what's the difference?

[@yeahsun2549]

yoooooo all go grab it it's for sale now!

[@thegroove2000]

Kohl review. Thanks.

[@BruceWayneee300]

I thought that was Cleveland Brown singing for a second lol

[@Harrysound]

litterally can't tell the difference. I even got the demo and can hear any difference between any of it

[@ghayassheikh]

Plz give me a copy of this plzplz plzplz

2:34 Real start of the video

[@kage-fm]

28:20 “if i get too high on hard mode, it gets weird”

[@LafemmebearMusic]

I hear no discernible difference but I get that all of it adds up later

[@SK-od6et]

What you say about sensitivity doesn't make sense. But that's because you're calling selectivity "sensitivity". Which is completely different.

[@RandomVelocity]

I would consider it to be duller not smoother

[@scattystormborn]

I love you long time

[@blacklanton]

Noice

[@ExellRecords]

Now I know how to get rid of poopy guitar sounds.... 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@erdemylmaz.]

@30:39 removing resonances not good idea, it destroys the character of the sound. you can easily eliminate some exploding resonances with eq. There is no greater foolishness than to destroy the all resonances.

[@yurine477]

So.. can I put this on everything? 😂

[@ЛюблюСебя-ч8т]

На 9 минуте объяснение самых важных крутилок

[@keithbarney7308]

Obviously it’s doing something but I can’t hear the difference at all actually.

[@issadababneh]

Why are my ears not hearing the difference

[@ferdinandmusic]

Trust me no difference at al 😁

[@enigma3099]

Maybe Soothe would help with your vocal fry on this video

[@oinkooink]

$300 Australian dollars? They're having a laugh.

[@gregormarini]

Firstly, The sound of the guitar was better before ... you ruined it for the most part. Secondly, always listen to the item you are working on in the context of the full mix.

[@wolfganghelbsing2454]

True.

[@greensleeves32]

False. The guitar sound is far better after soothe, get yourself some better monitors if the difference isn't striking to you. The harsh resonances in the high mids and the boxiness of the low mids from the room were tamed well - as the most obvious improvements. The original recording sucked ass, not sure why you''re defending it in the first place. This is THE best option for that poorly tracked elec gtr.

[@iamthemembrane]

Shoulda just used vocals instead of the guitar

[@iamthemembrane]

Still the best Soothe 2 tutorial itw tho

[@johnpigstrong9018]

ok. 1. your example at 5 mins sounds better with soothe off. 2. your voice is 10x louder than the rest of the audio, extremely irritating.

[@larrytan73]

18mins...talking wtf! I went to the store came back ...still talking!

[@photojournalists]

This is cool and a great tutorial . But it’s basically a dynamic EQ for $200. Way over priced. For the convenience I might pay $70-100.

[@soulbringer-official]

3:22 Ha Ha. Nothing changed. I'm not interested in watching any further

[@shinezacharias3118]

Thanks