if you're like me you don't have a lot of time to spend on making music and for me the mixing
and mastering part takes the longest so i quite often i use the iZotope plugins as they have
several smart plugins that will make mixing and mastering adjustments or recommendations for me
and right now they have the iZotope holiday bundle diamond edition on sale over at Sweetwater
so you can save time and money and in this video we're going to check out those smart
plugins to see what they're all about but first this video is sponsored by Sweetwater
you can get this bundle over there right now for just $149 until December 31st so act on that quick
they also have many other plugins software and hardware deals going on and they even offer easy
payment plans so you can get this stuff right now and still have money for Christmas. Check
the link down in the description to go directly to the holiday bundle diamond edition page but
right now let's have a look at all 12 plugins that come with this bundle you get RX elements,
Ozone 9 Standard, Neutron 3 standard, Trash 2, Iris 2, Exponential Audio R2, Exponential Audio
Excalibur, Exponential Audio Phoenix verb, Break Tweaker and a bunch of Break Tweaker expansions
plus you also get Stutter Edit 2 Neoverb and Nectar 3 Plus it's an incredible bundle of
plugins and it's everything that you'll need to mix and master your songs all right now let's take
a deeper look at some of these smart plugins so you can see them in action so let's start with
Ozone i have it loaded up here on the master bus or mix bus whatever you want to call it and
you want this to be the last plugin in whatever plugin chain you have on your master bus maybe
this is the only plugin you have on there and you want to go to the loudest part of your song
so you want to have that teed up and ready to go so i think i do here
yep so that's the chorus the loudest part of my song and we're going to go to our master assistant
here and you can see we have some things that we can adjust we can have it modern or vintage
you can set your loudness and eq to manual which it's manually going to set or reference
you can put a reference track in there and have it reference that so it kind of matches up
that sound to yours and you can see you can set the intensity of the loudness
and also the destination is this going to be for streaming or put onto a cd and you might
want to do both if you're going to be doing cd and streaming so you could have a copy of
each one so for this i think i'm just going to leave everything as it is and we'll go to next
now we play back our song and it's going to listen and make adjustments
touch trying to get back to life seems too much you keep drinking and drinking your life away
telling yourself it's all society
all right so this is what it's come up with we've got equalizer one
dynamics here which isn't on so we could choose to put that on if we want and it has our other
dynamics eq right here and we have our maximizer which creates our loudness we just loaded up
that master assistant and away we went alright so let's a and b this so you can see we have a
gain match here but first i just want to show you without gain match and what this would do is
leave the gain so if we bypass it the gain stays the same but i want to show you
how it makes it louder because that's kind of what this is going to do is going to bring it up to
a loudness that's good for streaming so i'm just going to a b it now and we can hear the difference
so yeah you can hear it's brought the levels up to a good streaming level it makes the mix sound
a lot more cleaner and brighter so it's going to sound good on spotify and whatever other place we
upload our song to all right now let's look at our next plugin which is Neutron 3 Standard and
you can see here i have many other plugins that i was using for this mix chain and this is on my
drum buss here so i had many other plugins that i was using here but i've bypassed them you can tell
i don't have the yellow in there so those are bypassed and i'm just going to go through Neutron
and use the track assistant which is similar to that mastering assistant that we just use
so click on track assistant and again we have some options here we could auto detect or we
could set it ourselves so i'm going to set it to drums so it knows right off the bat what do
we want do we want warm up front low medium high intensity i'm going to say warm i like warm drums
and now let's click next it's going to want to listen we'll press play
every day and you wonder why you have no place to stay away
well you can already notice a big difference with those drums but let's just have a quick
look at what it's done it's added this sculptor module in here equalizer exciter compressor one
and compressor two and you can add more modules if you want you can see there's other modules
that we can add in there and same with Ozone you can add more modules and there's even presets
that you can go in i'll just quickly go back and show you in Ozone what we have for presets
so you can see yeah there's presets here that you could go with so you could go with genre
specific alt rock alternative blues rock you can see they're all in there you have this all-purpose
so you can see clean low end and different things like that so lots of presets you can use
or you use that master assistant and each of these modules also have presets in them so
if you want to add another module in there you can do that and even just use presets
all right i'm just going to solo our drums here and we'll do an a b listen with this on and off
you can hear it really brightens up those drums makes it less muddy which is going to
make our mix less muddy so let's listen to this in the mix now on and off
you can hear it makes a huge difference in the mix even though this is just on the drum bus
you can hear it still affects how everything else sounds so Neutron 3 incredible plugin included
in this bundle and now the next smart plugin that we're looking at is Nectar 3 plus and this plugin
is mainly for your vocals so it's going to create a whole vocal chain with your eq compression it
will even add some reverb in there and if you look in here you have pitch correction and you can even
create some harmonies and that sort of thing with this plugin it's pretty incredible and you can
see we have another assistant so that's what we're going to do here let's click on the assistant you
can see there's two options here unmask so we could have this carve out some space in the mix
for our vocal if we wanted to by setting it to listen to another track on here or we could just
do the assist and it's going to create that vocal chain and that's what we're going to do right now
so again what do we want vintage modern is it dialogue it's definitely not
dialogue what do i want a vintage sound let's go with vintage sound on this one
intensity i'll go with moderate next it wants us to play it
let's have a look at what is done here we've got eq on there there's a de-esser on there another eq
after the de-esser and then we have compressor and some reverb so i'm going to solo
my vocal track here so i'm just going to play this back and we'll a b it to hear what it's doing
alright let's listen to this
in the mix now to hear what it's done in the mix because that's where it matters
so yeah it really helps those vocals to cut through the mix and you can see down here before i
added this i had several other plugins individual plugins on there that i was using for my vocals
and this replaced all of those so again you have presets in this one that you can use and you can
add more modules if you want you can see we have the harmony module there let's just give that a
try see what that sounds like i'm gonna solo this and let's go with this this here this here we'll
see what this does way all messed up and you're out of touch the things around you don't matter
much people coming and going every day and you wonder why you have no place to stay why you
messed up and you're out of touch trying to get back to life seems too much you keep drinking and
drinking your life away telling yourself it's also that's pretty cool it's created harmonies in there
all right one last plugin that i kind of wanted to go over in this is the RX8 that's included
and you can see it has several modules for d-hum d-clip d-click voice d-noise and breath control so
you can fix several issues and i don't know if i have any issues that need fixing in this i just
wanted to point these plugins out to you so you can see that it does have those all right one more
plugin that we'll look at in this bundle is trash two which is an incredible distortion plugin and
it can create you know some subtle saturation types of things and get crazy with experimental
alien sounding distortions there's all kinds of stuff in here i absolutely love this plugin
i've got it loaded up onto our drum bus right now just to i don't know have some fun with it
so we'll just go over here to distort and i don't know let's try fry hear what that sounds like
so you can hear how this plugin could create a dramatic difference in your tracks put this on
your drums and have some fun with it or put it on to synths or whatever you want and have some fun
with it you also get all of those other great plugins with this package click the link down
in the description head over check out this bundle for yourself it's an incredible bundle and if you
want to see a mix that i did using only iZotope plugins click the video on the screen right now
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