Worth It - Kaotica Eyeball, Auralex, SE Reflexion Filter PRO

Worth It - Kaotica Eyeball, Auralex, SE Reflexion Filter PRO - Should You Purchase These Products?

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@RJEnriquez Жыл бұрын

Unbelievable, you deserve 10x the subscriber count. Your knowledge, expertise, information and credentials are way better than any other “big” KZbinr. Thank you so much.

@AutoclaveBeats Жыл бұрын

Thank you for Sharing your thoughts on these Items. wasn't sure about some of them....Would you consider a room that's 17ft long, 9 feet wide, and about 9.5ft tall a good sized room for mixing? would it still be considered a small room?

@IanJamesBeats Жыл бұрын

Another banger video. As someone who used to use foam….I agree with everything said lol. It RUINED my vocal recordings and I used to drive myself NUTS. It’s funny cause I recently moved into an apartment and now I just record in my open bedroom and my mixes/recordings are the best they’ve ever been.

@alphaomega6062 Жыл бұрын

1st 10K-er here! I enjoyed this video. Matthew is an engaging speaker and I feel that his opinions give helpful insight. I rarely record vocals but I do have an 'own brand' reflection filter of a similar design to the SE Reflexion Filter PRO supplied by Studio Spares. I got best results by having additional absorption material opposite the mic, behind the vocalist, to whit - two solid pinewood doors joined together by hinges and draped with several of those dust sheets that painters and decorators use. With the hinge opposite the mic 4 or 5 feet away and the doors opened out just a tad beyond 90 degrees to make a kind of open booth. Good enough for my needs.

@HassanMohamed-jt1cg 4 ай бұрын

My room is fairly small and mostly treated just really need bass traps, i find reflection filters like the s.e one or the aston halo do help clean vocals up an extra 20-40 percent. It would be almost entirely useless in an untreated room however, and these open reflection filters are entirely better than the heavy frequency changes you get from the microphone condoms

@RikardPeterson 5 ай бұрын

Interesting video! I have a question: Reflexion Filters are typically talked about in the context of recording vocals, but I mainly play wind instruments (both brass and woodwind). I don't have access to a room treated for recording. The room I use when recording (my room at work) is treated to allow a trumpet to be played loudly in it despite the small size of the room - in other words it's not a good sounding space, but there are things on the walls that reduce the volume of the sound in the room. (It's built for trumpet lessons, not for sound recording.) You can tell I'm not a sound engineer and I don't have the ears to be able to identify how to make my recordings better. (Besides playing better, of course.) I rely almost completely on the built-in presets in Logic when I do my recording projects. My current project is big - I'll be playing a full symphonic wind band by myself, so it'll be over 30 tracks when it's done... I typically record my tuba with a D112 and more or less everything else with a Beta57a. Would investing in a Reflexion Filter be a good idea for my use case, or a waste of money?

@tonywarrior Жыл бұрын

Great advice. in my case, I own Aston Halo and my room sorrounded by the "shitty" auralex foams 😂😂. Should I improve it? What are you thoughs?

@WeissAdvice Жыл бұрын

Should you improve it? Are you getting the results you want?

@tonywarrior Жыл бұрын

@@WeissAdvice Well, I had a cheap reflection filter ($90 USD) and I couldn't get good takes, in fact it was worse than not using it, because the comb filtering problem occurred, practically impossible to solve it in the mix. Then I got the Aston Halo and I made the corrections of positioning it in a better place in the room, I placed auralex acoustic panels behind the Aston Halo and my takes have improved a lot... I still have problems with dark and harsh voices, I suspect it is due more to the nature of my microphone (Rode NT1-A). The good thing is that it can be corrected more easily in the mix.

@Joey-rp5vg Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mr Weiss, it's a bit of a mine field, with this stuff. Thanks very much

@drillgirl718 23 күн бұрын

hi i got a question, i have my studio setup in a garage, nothing but walls and the garage doors and noise bleeds in from outside at times, the kaotica helps, but my question is, would it help with comb filtering and stuff if i just dont leave the pop fitler in the front?

@ParadNorthProd Жыл бұрын

04:45 GOLD!

@DMV-SaxTv Жыл бұрын

"Algorithm protein" ... watching now and have a SE Electronics - Specialized Portable Acoustic Control Environment Filter (RF-Space). My *ENTIRE* space (12 x 12) ready for construction. I've been using temporary treatment with sound dampening blankets covering my studs w/Rockwool Safe & Sound in a DIY. This Subject has been so daunting, I've consumed over 100 hours of content to make a firm decision for early spring construction. Thanks for the content Matt! Forehead on desk moment ... *sigh*

@WeissAdvice Жыл бұрын

It's a lot, no question there.

@johnlackner1193 2 ай бұрын

does the eyeball fit over rectangular shaped mics, like the AKG 414?

@joshi_young Жыл бұрын

Isovox would had been interesting to cover. Using it with the UAD mic modelling (through Townsend Lab Sphere L22). In the software, you can pick the Isovox and cancel out the damping that the headbooth does.

@juliangregg6507 Жыл бұрын

I always want the best capture in the first place, so I try to maximize what I have to work with. But if you have a de-noiser, a de-reverb, or even to a lesser extent a transient shaper, and you can find the right settings, you can get rid of some of what bad rooms does to ruin your recording.

@simon_dupp Жыл бұрын

Little comment on the mention of air-gaps for standard absorbers: The reason why airgaps are great is not that the wave is hitting the absorber twice. Classic porous absorbers have good efficiency for frequencies whose wavelength is four times the size or shorter than the thickness of the absorber. Or phrased differently - the absorber needs to be atleast Lambda/4 thick to absorb a frequency (lambda being wavelength). That is because these absorbers act as velocity absorbers, meaning they transform the velocity of sound into friction and thus heat and take the energy out of the room. A soundwaves velocity is highest at 1/4 and 3/4 of its wavelength. That’s why there is the requirement of thickness. So what you do with an airgap is moving you absorbing material away from the wall (where there is a pressure maximum, which does nothing for velocity absorbers) and move it towards the velocity maximum of lower frequencies, thus extending the range of low frequencies your Absorber can effectively absorb. You somewhat damage the absorbing properties for higher frequencies whichs velocity maximum now might nolonger be within the absorbing material, but since these frequencies usually aren’t as problematic in a room, air gaps are usually recommended.

@WeissAdvice Жыл бұрын

Crazy, I definitely learned something here.

@Ancestors-of-the-4-Directions 7 ай бұрын

so what you you recommend MrTinka

@PolymerJones Жыл бұрын

Where is the part with the eyeball

@kelvinfunkner Жыл бұрын

literally...a couple of mic stands and some packing blankets will do a much better job than a Kaotica Eyeball. And probably for cheaper.

@andresiegfried2084 Жыл бұрын

Nice video .... I had similar experiences with the eyeball that led to not using it anymore. Would be nice to hear your opinion about De-verb plugins especially the latest ones from Waves vs SPL de-verb? Is there any significant improvement with the latest AI stuff onboard?

@Orderftw782 Жыл бұрын

Needed this thanks a lot

@greedokenobi3855 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for speaking up about the auralex foam crap! 🙌 To me it’s almost a scam, dulls your highs and that’s all it does. People putting foam all over their room- deading the highs while leaving the rest untamed and often only making the room even more unbalanced than before. Foam is great, in the the inside of a case to protect your gear, otherwise crap. More videos like these are needed in the community!

@WeissAdvice Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Auralex is right on the line of scam.

@rome8180 Жыл бұрын

What do you think of the GIK Portable Isolation Booth? It seems like it's a bigger, more robust version of the sE Reflexion Filter, with all the strengths and weaknesses. I have one, and it's helped, but it hasn't entire solve my issues. For one thing, it's not a fully surrounding booth. I'm thinking of getting another one, setting one in front of me and one behind me, and draping acoustic blankets between them. That way, I have absorption on all sides. Not a substitute for a great room, but a decent solution while I'm working on my room.

@ParadNorthProd Жыл бұрын

I have 2 of them. But I also use them in a treated room to create a larger vocal booth. I make sure a treated wall is behind me.

@WeissAdvice Жыл бұрын

GIK is a pretty reliable company, but it does still LOOK to have some of the same functional problems. Typically you want to gobo behind the source, not behind the mic, because the capsule is facing the source. But I've never used it. Maybe it has enough dimension to cut down on the echoes enough.

@riOdariot 11 ай бұрын

Hi Weiss, on this regard, what judgment do you have about Clearsonic acoustic panels (i.e. the S2446x2)?

@BijuSharman Жыл бұрын

I have a 14feet x 12 feet room. Can it be considered as a Short space?

@DredNugent Жыл бұрын

comb filter dance 🕺& raw doggin the mic 😂 funny af man

@lawanedavis7818 Жыл бұрын

Once again, great video sir. (VOE ENT Recordings).

@kingkyoga9263 Жыл бұрын

Raw dogging is always better

@furtakdominik5508 Жыл бұрын

So which choice will be better for untreated room dynamic mic or condenser with one of the products which you presented?

@WeissAdvice Жыл бұрын

Typically dynamic mics perform a little better in untreated spaces as they side and back reject more than condensers.

@furtakdominik5508 Жыл бұрын

@@WeissAdvice It is worth to buy dynamic microphone to my bedroom studio right now I am using condenser with kaotica and I am not satissfied with resoults

@STyonk Жыл бұрын

Very insightful!

@flamersss Жыл бұрын

How do you feel about Waves DeReverb plugins for a untreated room ? or plugins in that nature ?

@ChristopherHero Жыл бұрын

I've always found it to be better to get the space/room how you want before hitting record. Reverb removal plugins can work, but they don't beat getting the recording right the first time. What are you recording?

@WeissAdvice Жыл бұрын

sometimes it works, sometimes not so much. Too much of it always causes "space monkey" artifacts, which is not ideal.

@PharaohLawLess1 Жыл бұрын

What do you think about the IsoVox2?

@OZKitchen 9 ай бұрын

Trash

@PharaohLawLess1 9 ай бұрын

@@OZKitchen Ok Is there an alternative than the IsoVox 2?

@OZKitchen 8 ай бұрын

@@PharaohLawLess1 honestly man all of these devices are worse than just standing in a room with a mic. Terrible comb filtering. These small spaces are the worst. A ball, a box, etc. Way too small. Even a whisper room is way way too small

@doitlikeclean Жыл бұрын

Great thoughts can vouch it’s all true.

@BmxTzu101 Жыл бұрын

Commenting for the algorithm. Haven't watched it yet, but I can say that eyeball makes vocals very boxy. I'm sure it can be corrected with special eq plug-ins but I try to steer people away from it that's not experienced with the sound.

@WeissAdvice Жыл бұрын

the algorithm appreciates your comment LOL

@arziva1615 Ай бұрын

I'm not sure if this guy should be allowed to be around microphones... I don't even want to think about what he may put them through when the recording session ends... talking about a microphone hollywood me too senario... 14:17 14:20 11:39 horror 😥

@AriJordan Жыл бұрын

Aston halo should have been added to this product list.

@WeissAdvice Жыл бұрын

if I had more experience with the product, I would have included it.

@BmxTzu101 Жыл бұрын

Did you forget to cut the the last few seconds lol

@drefue Жыл бұрын

Auralex is crap, but what do you recommend?

@WeissAdvice Жыл бұрын

Nothing beats good ol' insulation material like OC 703 rigid fiberglass or Denim insulation. And also actual diffusion pieces - which is not absorption, but very under utilized and often times more useful.