I might want to use this...

[@GFire303]

This has matched Soothe & beaten it! Finally.

[@francobuzzetti9424]

why is no one talking about how hard the song goes? sound and arrangement are amazing!

[@msld_sound]

Re: 6:33 "more natural" horns - it almost sounds like it was recorded further from the mic, no? I had never considered using resonance suppression to make acoustic instruments sit further back in the mix, but now I'll be trying it with Soothe2.

[@ivansoto9723]

Very useful though for production with samples and one-shots on the other hand

[@MusicChannel-rf5zz]

I have Soothe & was wondering if I would need this.

[@edwardkenemorales]

This is one of my only 2 purchases this year and it's so worth it. What sold me to this is the Dynamic Mode and the Custom Curves.

[@natus49]

This sort of thing is really useful with home recording situations, as many acoustic instruments rely a lot of early reflections to create a continuous, musical sound whilst minimizing projection of playing noises (like bow hair on string etc.). When you cant get good early reflections you have to mic very close, but that leads to an increase of unnatural noisy resonances in the signal. It took me years to figure out that puttting something like this on your close mic and then into a convolution for early reflections has been an excellent solution to this problem

[@HLRxxKarl]

I can confirm that you can turn the compensation all the way off by turning all 3 compensation knobs down to 0. With that disabled and the correct filtering, you can make some very surgical resonance cuts that are even more precise than Soothe 2. It's really impressive with how versatile it can be.

[@miklas12]

Seems like Dynamics, Formant and Treble are 3 different kinds of compensatin, mabye you just turn them down to 0. Haven´t tried myself.

[@anteshell]

I mean, d'uh!? It was painful to watch Wytse complain about disabling that feature WHILE fiddling with a knob *clearly labelled as compensation* all while ignoring the other two knobs under that same label. And even when he finally found those other two knobs, he still did not get it. So painful. _*facepalming so hard..._

[@desmondcole4300]

Small mistakes with infuriatingly obvious solutions drive engagement. For this reason we are commenting. Wytse is an intelligent individual and knows what he's doing. Lol

[@moogtoob6061]

@@anteshell I agree, but also a global 'compensation bypass' would be pretty useful. I guess you can just use the general plugin a/b thing for that though...

[@lukassbeataddicts]

"This is great for EDM producers because they wanna sound like another" fraking killed me 🤣

[@jahhe2611]

so true lol!

[@LarryZinc]

I got it like a month or two ago. Now it lives in my favourite plugins list.

[@MusicChannel-rf5zz]

Is it better than Soothe?

[@a_doggo]

As a professional trumpet player, THANK YOU for preventing me from rage-commenting half-way through the video. If you want mellow, get a cornet... or a flugelhorn, even better!

[@slowgaffle]

There's a reason you don't see the french horn in ska bands

[@joeyf808]

Great Song, would be nice to see you spend sometime with this and come back with a follow up. this is a very complicated plugin.

[@daviHuggMonster]

I actually own this one for a while. It is very usefull. As I did not want the waves or soothe...I choosen speccraft

[@schmellypuppy6]

As always u are the best reviewing plugins and actually this is suuuuper useful, I have Soothe 2, Bloom and I think now SpecCraft will be the last one on my toolbox.

[@svarogstudio]

Got it for this introductory price instead of Soothe... damn it's great. Tried it on distorted metal guitars with too much pick scratching and whistling resonances and I way blown away how well it cleaned them up. Same thing with overheads, especially on cash hits, it smoothed them so well so I can add more highs without all that harshness

[@HaunterMusic-d5g]

I did a shoot-out this year with as many "resonance suppressors" as I could find. I found DSEQ3 to be the best sounding and most user friendly. I'll have to give SpecCraft a look.

[@jeremyoswin9535]

Exact same here. Curious to hear how you find SpecCraft, if you compare against DSEQ3.

[@tdoto]

What’s your verdict

[@cainomusic]

Same here

[@johnplainsong9769]

This has replaced Soothe 2 for me. It sounds better to my ears and is more flexible...

[@MusiclyricsByECDaleyC]

As insightful as ever, yup, still love what you bring to the table, each time out!

[@huilustudio]

The music you are using makes me want to buy anything.

[@heidewatzka]

Watch your Video at arround 5:59, there you turned off the Compensation. One depth knob, the first one...a dynamic (2´nd )one and 2 tonal ones (last two). Thanks for the video!

[@TRXST.ISSUES]

It’s a really powerful plugin, much more surgical than what I can accomplish with Soothe, Dove, or Gullfoss. I’m still getting the hang of it as it feels like a lawnmower in how aggressive it can be with frequencies.😅 Lots of room for subtlety too, just need to work with it more.

[@chapavich]

+1 I just bought and use it to fix some frequency and it works well also for subtle things. You can open GUI setting to see how much it gain reduction.

[@TRXST.ISSUES]

@@chapavich You're right! Just need to keep dialing it in and tweaking and you can get a lot of subtlety!

[@baikal-records]

Side Chain in M/S and L/R modes is not working properly. Last update corrected it only for M.

[@maartenbosmans9585]

Yes, a video about the interaction between recording engineer and mixing engineer sounds interesting!

[@mellog03]

So basically this is a soothe 2 + Spiff + Trackspacer + Tonal Balance control for only 69 bucks. Thats a pretty good deal!

[@HLRxxKarl]

I'd compare it more to Match EQ since Tonal Balance Control is really just a visualizer.

[@kaseywarren2106]

For a moment I thought you were playing Conga by Miami Sound Machine

[@dan0nada754]

same 🤣

[@maudernmusic]

Miami Sound Muzakmachine

[@pyrogriffin]

You can tell I've been on the internet too long b/c I had flashbacks of ditto dancing in that opening few seconds of the song.

[@dahlhousestudios]

I loved SpecCraft! Too bad it released at the same time as Waves’s Curves Equator. It’s on my “Spectral Blanacer” plugin of the year award list! White Sea: what’s your vote for Audio Plugin of the Year? Can you pick just one? 🤔

[@G.Webster]

The Dynamic/Formant/Treble controls represent 3 different types of compensation, so setting all 3 to 0% disables the compensation. Another thing - this does real time (zero latency) resonance suppression. That's something soothe can't even do. I've used this plugin quite a bit now, it's found it's way into my mixing/mastering regularly. Not because I use it for heavy lifting, because it can't just do something other plugins can't, and it grabs things I would never have looked for normally. Say that vocal just has something that periodically resonates the same as the guitar? This thing will grab it and pull it down. The mix now sounds just a bit tighter. Could anyone tell me what I did? No. They notice it overall though. I think that's where the strength in this plugin is: We didn't used to do this simply because we couldn't. It wasn't an option, so we just accepted the sound that we had because nobody was going hunting for these frequencies. It's more of a "this will make a difference, but it won't make a bad mix good" type of plugin in my experience. Other interesting uses: Guitar DI profiling or any DI for that matter, de-essing, snare ring suppression, etc. Lots of different uses, including the use on the 2Bus/mastering chain to save time hunting for resonances.

[@RJ1J]

Soothe 2 and Gullfoss combined for a fraction of the price.

[@oneguy.2046]

Thanks for the video …. By the way, thoughts between this and Waves' Curves Equator? Seem both being able to do the same things? Thanks and hope you can have some insights to share as well. Thanks.

[@ЦыхраЦыхра]

This is very good at de-essing. Using it all the time

[@uncle-ed]

"They made ... Soothe ..." That killed me.

"I can't turn off compensation", meawhile treble compensation : 94% and formant 120% 😅😂

[@alephestudios]

sometimes he just says bs hahaha

[@willrobinson7578]

and the "wet-dry" at 0%?

[@brusecco]

@@willrobinson7578 it's not "wet-dry", it's just "wet"… a difference.

[@willrobinson7578]

So if it's set at 0% wet, isn't that the same as 100% dry?

@@alephestudios sometimes he makes mistakes like everyone of us * stay humble bro, he is a really nice and good sound engineer

[@nbo7063]

This has completely replaced Soothe for me. Can't recommend it enough!

[@GFire303]

Good to see people have the same opinion as me on this one :)

[@balbibou]

this track is crazy

[@And_He]

Soothe2 + Trackspacer + Equator + ProQ 3

[@gabrielraphaelofficial]

it does not eq match though

[@Djzytruz]

haha like your German kick ins lol „meine Güte“ 😂

[@InFiNiGhTe]

I'm still wondering why SpecCraft didn't appear on Plugin Alliance.

[@yesthisisdonut]

it's crazy how many soothe-like plugins are popping up recently, some are way cheaper than soothe too. wild times

[@TurnMeUpGhost]

they had a monopoly on the market for a while for sure. glad to see them get some push back honestly

[@ismaelhernandez8742]

That's great! SpecCraft is way better than Soothe

[@UTOBY]

How is that different from DSEQ?

[@dahlbaker]

The greatest enemy in my mixes are the dismounts of my lead guitar solos.

[@kadiummusic]

I was really hoping this was going to be a review of Waves new IDX plugin. 🤔

[@MusiclyricsByECDaleyC]

Thank You!

[@AlienAmbient]

Ok. Soothe is gone.

[@johnmcvicker6728]

Soothe2 should be $79

[@mellog03]

For sure, but they will never lower the price. It will be like the fabfilter plugins, wich is already industry standard.

[@sandrob5217]

Do you really think people who already have soothe will buy this?

[@AlienAmbient]

@@sandrob5217 People buy many 1176 vsts so why not?

[@synapticrush]

"It's actually great for EDM producers... because they all wanna sound like another" - Wytse Gerichhausen 2024 🤣👍

[@TotDeMax99]

7:52 that hurt

[@The_Doc_Rocks]

Love the audio track you're using - who is that?

[@dropLove_]

Love ya, buddy. Hope all is well.

[@RuthHall-d4l]

Thank you so much for this amazing video! I need some advice: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). Could you explain how to move them to Binance?

[@Griuofficial]

Thanks for the video

[@flamaproducciones]

COOL !

[@Arron_Mottram]

Cool, so it turns harmonics into white noise. Just what I needed!

[@gabrielraphaelofficial]

great point

[@ErixSamson]

That song is very cool

[@shlomo_bachar_Music]

Melda Production Did It Decade ago and Its Calld Spectral Dynamic

[@alephestudios]

doesn't sound quite as good, ADAA does it for me

[@ruudheadz7095]

Great review as always!

[@kentcantwellMusic]

Unrelated to this post, I wnated to alert you to a pretty cool new VST: Cable Guys' "Shaper Box 3 Bundle." Literally, modulates: Volume, Time, Drive, Filter, Crush Noise, Pan, Width, Liquid and the new Reverb. All in one VST for under $100. Investigate and demo/review maybe?

[@Nayah9]

Haven't we had enough of this resonance suppressor bandwagon yet?? Remember people, if you own Ozone 10/11, you already have a top-tier resonance suppressor in the form of the Stabilizer/Spectral Shaper modules.

[@DennisHeinzen]

Is “Meine Güte” also in the Dutch language or did you just use a German phrase? Asking out of curiosity. Grüße aus Deutschland…

[@nPulse]

Yes it’s definitely an expression is used in the Dutch language. Borrowed from the neighbors.. 😇

[@ttttiiimmy10bit]

I bought it, cheaper than some of the competition and i think I had it half price 👍

[@Jamie--]

Sounds alot like what bloom is doing

[@GFire303]

Put this before bloom.

[@zsteinkamp]

jesus crist if that isn't the most banger version of sandstorm by darude

[@CrisPearson]

Indeed, this one really gets the suitcase!

[@ast4127]

Cool stöff! 😅

[@db4ks]

yeah this plugin allowed me to delete soothe

[@JustinNathanielAdams]

Curse you--I almost got through Black Friday without buying a plugin...

[@alephestudios]

omg I'm gonna gate keep this one hahaha

[@lofimat3856]

SpecCraft = Witchcraft

[@fdgggfh24]

MEINE GÜTE

[@KreativeDevices]

🔥

[@pywidem5823]

Meine Güte 😃

[@ronnybalnus7582]

Meine Güte 😃🫶

[@rinserepeat2588]

its always the obscure plugins from companies no one has ever heard about that are the best.

[@dizmix]

Feed back killer

[@devron9656]

Meine Güte :D

[@beehype46and2]

Comment for da algorithm Streak count: 288

[@And_He]

Waves Equator plugin is the winner for this year

[@EpilepsyGod]

Waves plugin is always trash, except clarity vx

[@HologramBoy]

third!

[@SammiLucia]

but... all sounds are made up of fundamentals. those fundamentals appear as peaks on the spectrogram ... simply filtering them out (dynamically or not) is just filtering out the fundamentals that make A THING sound like A THING... plugins like this are stupid

[@Projacked1]

Resonance suppression for home studio users with a laptop LOL This is getting stupid, and silly. Maybe learn to record without those 'resonances'....

[@keithferris9574]

In a home studio, you realize that's less likely to happen right?

[@Projacked1]

@@keithferris9574 what is? And paying 70 bucks for something you can do with any dynamic EQ?

[@OceanViewStudioArts]

Meine Güte! ... sample this and send it to Myth/Zyklop. ROFL