hey guys so I was think about doing an nectar 3 review also so I slept on it
last night and then I came to my senses and realized I want money okay so
welcome to my first review my name is Weaver beats today I'll be
reviewing a VST named izotope nectar three, a brand new intelligent vocal
mixing VST it's available in a variety of formats I'll be going through this
product very analytically and grade it overall based on a few categories so
first I'm going to go over to the devices and features and what I think
about them the pitch device aka the auto-tune device I really like this
device I find it doesn't quite replace Melodyne split note functionality but
it's pretty great for something directly in your program really great for quick
pitch correction and anything else of the sort I was very impressed with the
compressor I liked how there was a few different types my favorite was a
solid-state type the EQ function is great reminds me of fabfilter and it has
some great features such as to follow EQ and the dynamic EQ so much to say about
the gate it does this job okay so the auto assistant this thing is crazy we
should all be afraid for sure so look they took the Neutron algorithm and
built on it a lot more the ALM feature I thought this was really cool basically
it'll do a few things for you it'll gain stage your vocals to negative 8 DB and
this prevents it from hitting some devices too hard such as the saturation
it also eliminates the need for corrective dynamics or riding the fader
the delay was pretty cool I like how there's a few different types so you can
find a different sound you like those saturation sounds really good I think
for me it's somewhere in between ableton saturation and WAV saturation somewhere
in the middle between those two in terms of sound I really like the masking
feature this is a big reason while the ease in this plugin in the future I
can't get rid of some of the guesswork of an instrumental and vocal clashing
for you can see wise I've looked through all the videos on their website and
information as well on their website and I couldn't figure out exactly what it
does but it works so the harmony device this thing is
groundbreaking I have heard anyone talk about it yet
but I think in the future there will be a lot of people talking about this so
this device allows you to create pitched harmonies as many as you want which is
crazy already right you can pick your scale and then you pick what harmonies
you want and you can place them anywhere you want in the stereo field you can
even get rid of your original if you want as well so this creates all sorts
of creative options really cool to be very useful for modern vocal styles okay
so let's talk about the de-esser this DSD seems pretty good but actually seem
to have one gripe with it my one only probably put this entire
program looks at the way it's set up it seems to attack a very wide high band a
much wider band and I've seen a lot of the teachers do if it's just the way it
looks or it sounds messed up it doesn't sound too messed up to me so my likes
we're against it one good thing to correct this those they have the the
dry/wet knob up at the top so so you can make great uses out there if you find
that yes our to be too strong the dimension it seems to just be a basic
chorus flanger phaser type of thing I've never really been a fan of doing this to
vocals so this one's not really for me okay last but not least the reverb seems
to just be like any other reverb and it all depends on just on how you set it so
make sure you set that peoole right and your decay settings yeah it should be
good me personally I haven't run any bugs in
this program yet so what I think about the price it's two hundred dollars or
ten dollars a month from splice for 20 months it's about a year and a half I
would say it's pretty worth the money like for what it is you'd expect this to
be about $600 or something like that so 200 is pretty reasonable but you get a
trough write down the description of this interest you producers the artists
have never had something that's powerful for this cheap for mixing you can own X
nothing about engineering stomach degree mix the devil
you do it under five minutes - speaking of which I have a video you can check it
out up here what do you guys think of nectar 3 do you like it will you be
using it in your mixes all the time let me know in the comments I'm pretty sure
I'll be using it especially the masking ALM features and you're this plugin like
I don't know I'm going to slap the like on this video my name is we're beat
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