Elevate Review
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Newfangled Audio's 26 paragraphic band EQuivocate plug-in grabbed everyone’s attention recently, with its MEL scale based division of the frequency bands based on the natural contour of the human hearing. Now, with Elevate, they are offering us a rethink on how a multi-band mastering limiter works. It uses the same 26 band filter bank we were introduced to with EQuivocate, to separate the audio into frequency bands similar to the frequency curve in the human ear. It then uses adaptive algorithms to calculate optimal limiting, transient shaping, and spectral clipping for each band. Of course, these can all be tweaked manually as well.Check out the video to see and hear it in action
Nicely done, sir. Interesting, informative, and perfectly paced. it's always a pleasure to watch a software module explained in a logical, straightforward way.
Amazing review!
Concise, detailed, straight to the point and informative.
Thanks !!!
Excellent, Eli! I've got Equivocate and now see/hear how useful Elevate would be. Thanks, as always, for such a clear and illuminating review.
great video- very well explained. subscribed!
'Not your grandfather's multiband limiter', love it.
Great Vid... Subbed.
Thanks for the review Eli, useful & very clear explanation of Elevate functions. I have EQuivocate but was less clear about using a similar approach for limiting, you've helped me understand it way better. Incidentally the track you are using sounds sweet, care to share any details at all?
It's a track by a Montreal singer Hayley Richman. It was written, arranged, and recorded by Morey Richman. She's a really talented up and coming young singer. You can see/hear more of her here: ua-cam.com/users/HayleyRichman
www.hayleyrichman.com
Thanks Eli
One thing i don`t quite understand. I thought that a limiter is the last part of a mastering chain in order to be sure you don`t exceed 0db. I don`t understand how come this plugin has additional 2 stages of processing After the limiter. I mean if you set the limiter to let`s say for examples sake 3db rms and a ceiling of -0,4db then you don`t have a lot of space to do anything. I mean if you go and add-emphasize transients after that..... Well this doesn`t compute to me. Only if the Clipper or the Transient shaper would bring the incoming signal down before it gets processed. What do you think? Is there another "final limiter" stage after the spectral clipping?
I think you can put limiters on individual tracks and I believe they also work well as a final glue. I'm guessing as long as you still have headroom you can probably add some other things like compressors to color the sound as long as you set it in low ratios. I have seen one some youtube video that you can pull in a compressor and not move anything at all to get some color on the overall sound.I'm not an expert just what i have came across recently in different mixing and mastering tutorials. Hopefully this reply can lead to the correct answer and information as I wanna know the real reason for what you mentioned.
Great review! Do you still use Elevate for mastering?
Absolutely!
@@elikrantzberg how would you compare it to Ozone?
@@GetSongsDone I like them both. Ozone is more about tweaking individual modules. There are all kinds of compressors, dynamic eqs, saturation, transient shaping, tape emulation modules, etc. Elevate is less involved. Less parameters to tweak means quicker results :-) And if the mix is solid to begin with, the level of control it provides is often all I need. Is that a good thing, or a bad thing? I think we each have to decide that for ourselves :-)
@@elikrantzberg Thanks for letting me know :) Keep up the good work!
Nice one Eli!
Great review , straight to the point thks .... if you know if the clipping occurs per band or globaly ?
Thanx for a nice video Eli! How is the plug in the CPU?
It's demanding. The best of them are! But certainly, not beyond anything you would expect, considering it is calculating 26 bands of look ahead limiting on the fly :-)
Cpu is ok for mastering but it will be much too laggy to use on individual tracks
hmmm. but still i believe multiple instances on many tracks would be a bit of an overkill wouldn`t it?
Btw i tried the plugin out. pretty impressive. It was a nice surprise
Thanx for the info Eli. I have a try and see it myself, as i'm just mixing down my last track, i guess my cpu can handle a few instances of it on my repective busses. :)
Hi Eli! Thanks for reviewing this one. Already downloaded the demo and think it is very nice. Also very nice is the music you play in your video. Who is it?
Hi Arnd, The song is Take My Soul by a lovely and talented Montreal singer named Hayley Richman
Eli, as a fan, a purchaser of your videos and myself a former resident of Montreal, a question. Your recent reviews of new plugins have coincided within an hour or so of their release. From the perspective of your credibility, could you explain this, including whether you are receiving a benefit, and if so, what benefit. Given that the release of these plugins and your reviews come within about an hour of one-another, I hope that you do not see this question as untoward. Indeed, I would have thought that you would explain this, in each video, without this question being asked. Thanks!
Hi Rory,
Thanks for asking the question. The answer is no, I did not receive payment form Eventide or Newfangled Audio for doing these review videos. The fact is, I am “in the business” since I do video tutorials for groove3 and write for logic-pro-expert.com. So plug-in developers often send me plug-ins (often ahead of their release) in the hope that I can/will cover them. And with logic-pro-expert, we like to try and stay current with new releases whenever possible.
Thanks, good to know.
I am so glad you asked this Rory. I was wondering the same. I saw a link on Eventide website to this review and I came to see if other people had tried it and left comments. Also, I appreciate Eli's response to your question. I guess if the review was not so positive it would be hard to find - which is no fault of Eli. Now off to watch that Dizzy film I saw on his channel ...
sweet mutiband limiter
I used Elevate to master this song, I think it’s a useful mastering tool : soundcloud.com/mike-taylor-770085424/scorpio
Who needs dynamics anyway, right? Sounds terrible to me, typical multiband-everything-evened-out-and-death sound. Dump that crap.