#NEUTRON 3 PLUGIN PROFESSIONAL#

The next area of major change is the modules themselves, which have been added to and reconfigured, and are now loaded into the top bar ‘rack’ as required, rather than being activated in the old sidebar. It’s not a serious problem, but we wonder if it might be possible to make the control panels float (deceptively, they look like they do already) so that they could be moved out of the way when necessary. There is one minor snag, though, in that the controls for many of the modules (the worst offender being Compressor) can obscure a chunk of the waveform or spectrum view over which they’re situated when the window is set small. Nectar 2 was starting to look decidedly retro, so the graphical makeover is a welcome move, as is the newfound ability to freely resize the window by dragging the bottom right corner. Nectar 3 (VST/AU/AAX/RTAS) redraws the GUI to achieve homogeneity with recently updated iZotope stablemates Neutron 2, Ozone 8 and RX 7, and make the various displays (spectrum displays, gain reduction trace, etc) more visually immediate.

#NEUTRON 3 PLUGIN PROFESSIONAL#

Visually it's not what I want to see when I'm mixing.Utilising an array of reorderable modules to apply voice-optimised dynamics shaping, EQ, pitch correction, harmonisation, de-essing, distortion and effects, it’s become a go-to plugin for the professional producer looking to quickly and easily get vocals of all kinds - from sung and rapped to dialogue and voiceover - sounding their best, entirely in the box. Some people might like this, but again it's so foreign to how I normally mix that I am just not into it. Visual mixer is a plugin that puts all tracks in a grid GUI so you can mix pan and gain on a grid and moving things L and R and louder and softer is done in one move. Most of the time I do it, get done and go 'not even close.' Sometimes it's not bad and can be tweaked a little to what I'm after. Track assistant can be good, but again since it's a track by track thing the results are a mixed bag. At this point I've pretty much resigned this feature to the garbage.

You would have to redo the whole workflow again if you wanted to make changes to their balance. Also, once you commit you can't come back to this screen to make adjustments. You can of course adjust things, but I also have found I don't care for how izotope automatically summed things together either. The thing is I've tried this on multiple projects and ever time I have given it a go it's been so far off I might as well not have bothered. Click mix assistant button, select all the tracks, select some to focus on (like main vocal lines or lead guitar parts) and let it do it's thing. Mix assistant is where you strap izotope's plugin (relay) across all your tracks (no buses), 0 your faders, and put mix assistant on the master bus. Track assistant has been around a 1 in 5 just ok. The worst one is the one that you pay extra to get.

Ok now for the stuff I have had no luck with or think is just bad:Īll of the 'automatic' features. I appreciate having UI that lets me know what's happening with the gate and compressor especially.

The compressor, transient shaper and gate are all really nice though. The other modules: I pretty much like everything but exciter and the reason I don't care for exciter is I'm not into the distortion it introduces (and I am aware that's the idea behind the module).

I have found it works good to tame some of the harsh in overhead tracks and push other things like piano to the front without introducing frequencies that tend to mask other things like voice and guitar. To be honest I can't really explain accurately what it does but what it does is good when it's good. Scultor is apparently the new kid but I never owned older versions of Nuetron so I have no reference. So say a boost at 1k can have it's dynamic information taken from 200Hz. All bands can turned into active dynamic points (kind of like waves F6 plugin) or just stay static and you can reference anywhere in the frequency spectrum as to how the dynamic point works. The EQ is one of the nicest I have used (and that includes pro-q3), you can easily switch tracks from within the plug and see how things are interacting with each other. This isn't any kind of endorsement or anything like that, just wanted to share my experience with it in case anyone was thinking about it.Īll of the modules are excellent in my opinion. So I recently picked up this gem with the sale.

Neutron 3 plugin