iZotope Plasma (60p version)

RealHomeRecording.com

9/18/2024

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00:00So I got a little treat for you guys.

00:16Very very rarely do I get a plug-in ahead of time to play around with and that's today's

00:22exception on a real home recording and that it would be the good old, well not good old,

00:29the good new iZotope Plasma.

00:34This is a plug-in that offers dynamic saturation.

00:38I'm assuming they did some kind of machine learning on different sections of a mix, including

00:45the mix bus.

00:48Basically what it does is it fills in the gaps where you want it to be and where it

00:55thinks it should be and you have just a few controls which is nice because similar to

01:01an LA-2A or an LA-3A or a Pultec EQ, the simpler the better as long as it sounds good.

01:08That's the way I like to put it.

01:10And so just to go down the list, presets over here.

01:14We have the all-important Delta Listen Control which allows us to hear the difference between

01:21the processed audio and the unprocessed audio.

01:26And really where this comes in handy the most is with our Overdrive Control and obviously

01:32the Flux Saturate Control.

01:35Both of these affect the amount of harmonics, the amount of distortion that's going on.

01:40The further to the left, or I should say counterclockwise, further to the left on the overdrive slider,

01:47the cleaner it is.

01:49Attack and release, how much the harmonics are affected dynamically.

01:54Attack and release, you know, the quicker, the lower the number.

02:01And if you go really slow then it changes slower.

02:06Alt-click takes us back to the default.

02:08I don't mess around with this too much and the main thing for me was actually this control

02:15right here which allows us to just focus the saturation in a given frequency range.

02:24So you pick this one where you want to start it.

02:26So it's essentially a high-pass filter, low-pass filter so that you're only affecting the area

02:36that you want to affect with the saturation.

02:40Very powerful control.

02:41Do not underestimate it.

02:44So what I'm going to do, if you're wondering why I have these other plugins going, this

02:49is actually the start of my 5 Plugins, 1 Mix series and my equalization for this one is

02:59going to be Zaffer from Acoustica Audio, VLA-3A from Black Rooster, Blue Cat Late Replies

03:08for delay and the reverb is the Sunset Sound Studio Reverb from IK Multimedia.

03:15But because I don't have those three, I'm not going to have them up there and Zaffer

03:21is just going to have to wait because this video is all about plasma.

03:26So let's get started.

03:27I'm going to load up all my tracks with different plas- I keep wanting to call it plasma.

03:35So plasma it is.

03:37The one thing I don't see on here is the ability to resize the GUI so maybe that'll

03:43come with the full version, I'm not sure.

03:47This is a pretty affordable plugin, I believe it's going to have a $29, well I'll just put

03:54that information on screen, okay, so I don't mess it up because I don't have my notes in

03:59front of me.

04:00So let's get started.

04:01Alright, so this is the first time I'm hearing all of these tracks.

04:07I'm not going to play them simultaneously.

04:09In fact, you know what guys, I'm going to load plasma on the rest of these tracks so

04:14that I'm not taking up your time as I show this plugin off.

04:18Alright, so first of all, let's show off a electric guitar distorted.

04:25So let's try it.

05:06I'm going to be honest with you guys, I'm using this remote software to do this and

05:30it's throwing out some audio artifacts and I'm not sure if that's a part of the mix or

05:36not.

06:06You know what I'm going to do is just duplicate this and then have one effect the low mids

06:25more than the highs.

06:42Okay that sounds alright.

06:43Now adjust this before I even start.

07:13And then really what you want to do is hear if it sounds good without it or worse.

09:13Alright, now the final test, put it on the other track, hard pan the one I was just doing

09:40to the left and hear how it sounds before and after.

09:49Like I said, the computer I'm using, the Windows 10 computer, it's definitely slower than the

09:56one I'm used to.

10:00Before I do anything, I'm going to hit save.

10:25I do like that.

10:26Alright, let's move on to another instrument.

10:29So let's try it on the drum overheads.

10:36Okay yeah, these need some work.

10:38So what did I do?

10:40Drums, full kit.

10:41See, I wasn't sure if I should pick drums full kit for the overheads, where's it at?

10:51Okay, drums full kit or drum cymbals.

10:56Because full kit to me is like a drum bus with the close mics and cymbals is like the

11:02overheads, right?

11:03Maybe?

11:04See, I'm not sure, so I'm just going to choose full kit and see what happens.

11:21Okay, it wants to add low end, so...

12:21Okay, that's the biggest difference I've heard so far.

12:50In a positive way.

12:52So I'm going to keep that on there for that.

12:55Snare drum I think also sounded pretty good.

12:59So let me remove that from the tom before I forget.

13:04I might go back to the kit, or I mean the kick, ugh, I don't know.

13:09I'll try it on the snare next.

13:11Let's see if that does anything useful.

13:14Oh yeah, this sounds a little thick.

13:44What do you guys think, did I overdo it?

14:14That's cool, let's go back to the kick drum.

14:43I think that sounds really good, really good.

14:46I may back down on it a little bit, but yeah, so the idea behind this, it's kind of like

14:54what a microphone preamp does to a sound where it shapes it and you're getting a different

15:02sound without EQing, but I mean it is an EQ, it's not really an EQ, it's harmonics, but

15:09whatever it's doing, it's making things sound clearer and add depth to it, and honestly

15:17where I really heard the biggest difference was when they were using the product demonstrator.

15:23He was showing us off on full mixes, and I don't have a full mix to show this off on,

15:29but I think I'm convinced enough where, I mean with everything I say guys, go check

15:37it out for yourself.

15:39If this video has piqued your interest, go check out some Plasma, but I'm definitely

15:46using this as my one and only saturation plug-in on my first five plug-ins, one mix video.

16:08I think the difference is obvious, let's give the bass a little listen before I stop recording

16:37this video.

17:07Okay, I'm not sure what difference it will make, but that answered my question, right?

17:28I don't know what difference it'll make, we'll check the Delta, listen Adam!

17:32So anyway, I'll do a bypass too.

17:48Oh yeah, that made a difference, I'll leave it at 4 just so it's not too much, and did

17:53I have anything else?

17:55Oh, clean electric guitar, let's try that.

17:59Hey, what's up with that?

18:10Okay, that'll be interesting, let's see where it wants to add it.

18:15Interesting!

19:15I didn't like what it was doing to the low end.

19:46Okay, that's a little something, so I'll keep that on, I'll keep going with my mix.

19:52So what I'm going to do with this is on Real Home Recording 2, you're going to get basically

19:59me twiddling with all the knobs and buttons on all that, pretty much in its entirety,

20:05except for the initial loading of all the plug-ins on all the different tracks, but

20:11then I'm going to make a more concise video showing off the plug-ins.

20:16I may not even record myself mixing, I don't know, it just depends on a few different factors,

20:23but I will explain what choices I made and all that in the concise video.

20:32So thank you all for watching, go check out iZotope Plasma for yourself.

20:38I don't know how long of a trial you get, I think typically it's either 14 days or maybe

20:45even 30 days, and that's about it.

20:48Thank you all for watching.

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