Wow, this is really impressive. Powerful yet user friendly, great demo and walk through. Thank you for the tips and tricks and kudos to the developers behind the scenes.
Hope you guys work on getting those backer modules sounding like crisp style-transfers of voices instead of the robot artifact filled sounds they are now. Still very cool!
Loving the Audio Level module as well as the saturation. The voices module looks like a fun toy but I still prefer stacking real vocals, nothing like it and is more fun.
I've already done the update. It's expensive, but here we have a completely new machine then the old Nectar. Also, the finally the possibility to use single modules as plugins. Auto-level is perfect. And in general, it's always a good start up for mixing vocals or, as happens, when you are in a hurry. Anyway, I think is a great evolution from the previous version.
Well done Geoff! There's a lot of ballistics in this video but you've managed to keep it in the pocket... ;) If I get what you're saying at 41:30, this means I could get Lennon & McCartney to sing along with me!! That's awesome!
This Geoff guy gets a gold star. He could be a professional hypnotist. I've been on board since Nectar One and this latest version really has some major improvements. I'm excited! I just got it, but haven't cracked it open yet.
Thankyou for doing these tutorials Geoff. You do an absolutely great job of them always. I find that in many other tutorials that people do they are talking about what can be done but they hardly ever tell you in detail how it can be done. This is not the case with you. I always come away from your videos with a good understanding of how to use the products. Its a big help... so again Thankyou so much for being very good at what you do Geoff.
For anybody who wants some feedback. I am not an audio guy. I know my way around the color and edit page of Davnci resolve. I wanted something that would help spice up my dialogue. I bought the Nectar Elements and it is fantastic. The dialogue I have does not require noise reduction or cleanup. However it is so flat and boring! I needed a tool that would spice it up and give it color. The Nectar 4 elements did just that! A few turns of the dials and my dialogue is improved. I highly recommend. Maybe as I get better I sound I will upgrade to the Advanced but I am very pleased with this product.
A bit late here but I just upgraded my MPS bundle and look forward to trying out the new Nectar! Geoff, as usual, such a great presentation, so calm, eloquent, a pleasure to watch and listen. Those first vocal bits have bit of a TV On The Radio vibe, very nice!
In this demo the Backer voices sound great. When you listen to them separately, e.g. changing your own voice, you will probably find that most of them sound strange. And in my experience it is very hard to make that go away. I would like to see and hear more tutorials or examples of how to get this to sound right.
Love the Auto-Level. The Tame Noise feature is genius.Much better than Waves Vocal Rider, or using a lot of compression. I wish all the separate modules had the learn feature..lol. The Backer concept is also brilliant...it just still sounds a little wonky for me. Hopefully it will get better. All in all, this is my go to plug in, and has been for years. 4 is definitely an upgrade from 3 IMO. Great Vid!
I believe there should be a way to analyze the music around the vocals to ensure a better match with the track, rather than just trying to make the vocals sound like a different track.
@@lNowHerel izotope make a plugin called neutron. You put it on whatever channels you like and it shows you the frequency analysis. Say you have a guitar and vocal with the plugin inserted, you open one up and it shows you the analysis for both and which frequencies are masking or clashing with the vocals. It then lets you EQ either guitar or the vocal, or both to fix the issues. It does more than that too. Best to look for izotope neutron on UA-cam and watch for yourself 👍
Thanks, including for labeling sections to which I can return, if needed. I'm excited, and it gave me $100 off winding up with Melodyne 5 Assistant, since Nectar 4 included Melodyne Essentials. I probably could have just used Mel. Ess. but wanted full mouse-dragging-level control over individual vocal nuances. I never heard "metadata" being used that way, like perceived eq profile of a vocal in a song (versus embedded text details like title or artist name). It's weird how many audio experts have my own, same, exact room and door :)
I used Plugin Boutique and upgraded from Nectar 3+ to Nectar 4 standard for £43.A 67% reduction on normal price.The advanced was only a 20% reduction,so figured it best to get standard and then see what the price for upgrading to advanced Nectar 4 in a few months.I still have Nectar 3+ to use too.
Extremely helpful overview thanks, and explains for me very clearly what v 4 offers relative to v 3. BTW, your voice is sounding great in this video (assume you’ve Nectar 4’d it? 😉). Thanks again.
Great walkthrough, can the follow node for the eq where you get it to follow a certain frequency, be set as a side chain dynamic eq, like in surfer EQ 2 by sound radix, this would help me not upgrade to their eq and stick with iZotope's framework?
I just want to suggest an implementation. When I'm moving the voices in the stereo field in the panel, I want to see the kind of voices I'm working with. It's not simple to remember which color is associated to the unison, to the 5th and so on.
interesting. can you use the voices module to make another harmony of a vocal file, and export that so that you can use that harmony with the backer module?
Why don't I like the voices section? Because I am over 60? Well, at least because I remember and am proud of all the effort and skills we put into our background vocals. I remember late, late nights in the studio giving it all our love ...😊 Wouldn't have been without them...
Only thing it's missing is 3 octaves of flanged echoed COWBELL. Great unit. Thanks for the great demo. Needs an apt that makes you sound like Paul Rogers on a Shure 57 😂. Be good Nectar MAN. Love your Star Trek processing. 🖖
Hello Great video. Newbie to using Izotope production suite. I have my (instrument and) vocal tracks grouped (Ableton Live 12 Standard) 1- Do you put an instance of Nectar 4 on each track, get the results you want and then on the bus/aux track (going to the master track) or just the bus/aux track or both? Thanks in advance.
posso ligar mic numa placa zomm h6 e tirar uma saida line e mandar p outra placa na entrada ausxiliar da segunda placa? nao vou ligar noa entrada do mic nao e na entradad ausiliar, posso ou vai queimar a saida? ou entrada/?
So after neuton 4 finishes lerning in the ai power assistant, i don't get any of the knobs or screens in this video. I only have a tone and width adjustments. I'm following the steps. Hoping to learn what I'm doing wrong.
Where from Audiolens take audio signal to capture Targets ??? I use Sonarworks that do EQ coreection for headphones and speakers and it is quiet drasticly with EQ that adds frequencies like +12dB where I have my room frequency spectrum hole. Should I turn off Sonarworks app BEFOREI decide to take Audiolens snapshot of vocal or full song target ?
So the range on auto level if -12 it’s going to be more dynamic vocal. It range is -4 it’s going to be a smoother vocal because it can only go -4 or +4?
Maybe my ears are not working correctly but I have seen some other tutorials where I also thought the starting vocals sounded better and more natural than the mixed once with nectar…
At 18:08 - When the Auto-Level is placed on a Bus, does it level each track individually or bring all the individual tracks closer to the same level????????
So, Autolevel is like Selig, right? Also, for CPU performance reasons, I assume you can have a "working track" and then bounce that to a pre-mixed/effected new track? I know that might depend upon the DAW, obviously. Does this run stand alone as well?
Hi Geoff, I also own RX 10 -- for tone-matching vocal references, should I use 'Lens' as you suggested in this video, or would it perhaps be better to use 'Music Rebalance' on the 'Best' setting (which is excellent, I use it all the time) to isolate the vox within RX, and then simply train lens on the 'Capture' setting instead of 'Acapella'? Which of these methods should yield the best results? Thanks!
I have Windows 10, interface VOLT 1 - but with me not work in Nectar 4 the "Baker" function. Die faces comes not to see at all. Why? And, more better! - if I show my audio for Ozon 11 to hear, it starts to suspend, makes a crash-bang, and suggests so high loudness, that I think my computer flies away. Why? John Burn from Germany
How can I accomplish changing my EQ and compressor settings with time? Do i just need to create a new track? Also, with Voices, how can I accomplish chanhing my harmonies with time? Primarily through MIDI?
I want to know what Audio Interface Geoff uses lol these plugins are not friendly while on record. With that being said, when iZotope decides to release an audio interface, it's officially over for RME, more or less.
HI! great video. Quick question- When combining Nectar with Neoverb, what should come first in the processing chain? Or is this meant to be used as a stand alone?
Well, this is frustrating. I have a trial version of Nectar 4, which I would like to use for voiceover. The auto-level module is one of the features I am most interested in, but I can't find it in the plug-in. Every screen shot of the plug in shows auto-level on the left hand panel of the interface, but on mine that space is occupied by the Key module. All online help files say there is supposed to be a way to activate ALM somewhere on the interface but they never show a picture of it, and I've clicked everything on the interface and cannot find anything that will change that left panel from Key to Auto-Level. Can you tell me exactly where to find it so I can test that feature.
Hi, iZotope vinyl does not show any percentage values when adjusting Dust, Scratches, and Wrap values. Please release a hotfix to resolve this issue. It's a very good plugin but not being able to precisely adjust our value when adjusting the dust, scratch and wrap values is really annoying.
Also- I'm using Nectar 4 elements and having trouble accessing the details. I can't actually see the EQ curve, when I adjust shape. Is that a limitation of elements?
So new to Nectar, what best way to record in, I am using nothing on insert for main vocal and using a BUS to send, that way I can get a nice sound to record but not record the BUS in...so raw in that sound good? or do I add auto level to main insert vocal and record that in.
I bought the upgrade from Nectar Elements to Nectar 3 PLUS. NOW you come out with Nectar 4. SO why didn't you FIRST tell me that 4 was coming out, and #2, why I would not get a special discount if I considered AGAIN upgrading to 4 now? And what are the differences between those 2 upgrades, and don't tell me to watch this video. I'd LOVE to see the Marketing DEPT do their JOB and put out a Comparison Chart for those two because I have not seen one of those on your complicated website, unless I either missed it, or it's buried somewhere, OR it's not there. Anyone know? Think I maybe be done dealing/buying from Izotope for awhile, like I've already done with WAVES.
I have a question, lately I got nectar 4, I was wondering if the vocals aren’t loud enough should I use the autolevel volume to increase the vocals? Or I should use the fader?
Man this is Huge been studying this video for a couple days now thank you.
Wow, this is really impressive. Powerful yet user friendly, great demo and walk through. Thank you for the tips and tricks and kudos to the developers behind the scenes.
Hope you guys work on getting those backer modules sounding like crisp style-transfers of voices instead of the robot artifact filled sounds they are now. Still very cool!
This is a HUGELY significant update! Cheers iZotope!
the best Nectar 4 tutorial! thanks
Loving the Audio Level module as well as the saturation. The voices module looks like a fun toy but I still prefer stacking real vocals, nothing like it and is more fun.
I think nectar would really benefit from a genre choice before letting the ai decide what to do, for me it's not doing a great job most of the time
The new updated Audiolens is really cool. It's a good starting point for tone shaping.
I've already done the update. It's expensive, but here we have a completely new machine then the old Nectar. Also, the finally the possibility to use single modules as plugins. Auto-level is perfect. And in general, it's always a good start up for mixing vocals or, as happens, when you are in a hurry. Anyway, I think is a great evolution from the previous version.
Well done Geoff! There's a lot of ballistics in this video but you've managed to keep it in the pocket... ;) If I get what you're saying at 41:30, this means I could get Lennon & McCartney to sing along with me!! That's awesome!
This Geoff guy gets a gold star. He could be a professional hypnotist. I've been on board since Nectar One and this latest version really has some major improvements. I'm excited! I just got it, but haven't cracked it open yet.
Thankyou for doing these tutorials Geoff. You do an absolutely great job of them always. I find that in many other tutorials that people do they are talking about what can be done but they hardly ever tell you in detail how it can be done. This is not the case with you. I always come away from your videos with a good understanding of how to use the products. Its a big help... so again Thankyou so much for being very good at what you do Geoff.
Holy mackerel! The new modules are fantastic!!
WOOOW ! You guys. That's amazing! You thought of everything. That backer module - speechless. That's crazy good. :D :O Thanks!
For anybody who wants some feedback. I am not an audio guy. I know my way around the color and edit page of Davnci resolve. I wanted something that would help spice up my dialogue. I bought the Nectar Elements and it is fantastic. The dialogue I have does not require noise reduction or cleanup. However it is so flat and boring! I needed a tool that would spice it up and give it color. The Nectar 4 elements did just that! A few turns of the dials and my dialogue is improved. I highly recommend. Maybe as I get better I sound I will upgrade to the Advanced but I am very pleased with this product.
Cool, does it load fast in your daw ?
@@Stormchaser189 yes it works great…loads fast
A bit late here but I just upgraded my MPS bundle and look forward to trying out the new Nectar!
Geoff, as usual, such a great presentation, so calm, eloquent, a pleasure to watch and listen.
Those first vocal bits have bit of a TV On The Radio vibe, very nice!
In this demo the Backer voices sound great. When you listen to them separately, e.g. changing your own voice, you will probably find that most of them sound strange. And in my experience it is very hard to make that go away. I would like to see and hear more tutorials or examples of how to get this to sound right.
All this amazing info and here I am adding to the # replays for "I don't know why it's on my belt 😂" at 18:50
Bought and it's so GREAT!
Love the Auto-Level. The Tame Noise feature is genius.Much better than Waves Vocal Rider, or using a lot of compression. I wish all the separate modules had the learn feature..lol. The Backer concept is also brilliant...it just still sounds a little wonky for me. Hopefully it will get better. All in all, this is my go to plug in, and has been for years. 4 is definitely an upgrade from 3 IMO. Great Vid!
Thank you for these videos, they are extremely helpful!
I love the suite of products! So much fun to learn and use!
I believe there should be a way to analyze the music around the vocals to ensure a better match with the track, rather than just trying to make the vocals sound like a different track.
Technically you can do that with masking EQ in neutron 👍
@@jamesjames77777 will you explain this?
@@lNowHerel izotope make a plugin called neutron. You put it on whatever channels you like and it shows you the frequency analysis. Say you have a guitar and vocal with the plugin inserted, you open one up and it shows you the analysis for both and which frequencies are masking or clashing with the vocals. It then lets you EQ either guitar or the vocal, or both to fix the issues. It does more than that too. Best to look for izotope neutron on UA-cam and watch for yourself 👍
Great help, thank you so much. I couldn't figure out how to use the voices module to create harmonies: who would have guessed? Unison mode it is.
Thanks. But in the "voices" section it was really hard to hear the changes because the music was too loud.
amazing! Thanks for the comprehensive explanation.
Thank you for all you do with these helpful videos
At 9:45 - maybe the loudness disguises things, but I though the before was way better than the after. The eq seems just to be off to me.
thanks a lot for explaining this software in-depth
Capture also reverb and delay information with Audiolens on the next version!
Thanks, including for labeling sections to which I can return, if needed. I'm excited, and it gave me $100 off winding up with Melodyne 5 Assistant, since Nectar 4 included Melodyne Essentials. I probably could have just used Mel. Ess. but wanted full mouse-dragging-level control over individual vocal nuances. I never heard "metadata" being used that way, like perceived eq profile of a vocal in a song (versus embedded text details like title or artist name). It's weird how many audio experts have my own, same, exact room and door :)
Absolutely fantastic tutorial and explanation!!
Thank You very much for this intersting tutorial!
Upgrade prices are insane.
@@officialWWMThe same for me. I hope they will not repeat what Waves do when you have to pay and pay and pay for things you've already bought.
Exactly!!!! $224 and I have Nectar 3 + already!!! They should’ve made it $50 for the upgrade the most!!!
I used Plugin Boutique and upgraded from Nectar 3+ to Nectar 4 standard for £43.A 67% reduction on normal price.The advanced was only a 20% reduction,so figured it best to get standard and then see what the price for upgrading to advanced Nectar 4 in a few months.I still have Nectar 3+ to use too.
Worth it
@@Gedagnorsblame stupid consumers and greedy ceos
Extremely helpful overview thanks, and explains for me very clearly what v 4 offers relative to v 3. BTW, your voice is sounding great in this video (assume you’ve Nectar 4’d it? 😉). Thanks again.
This video is why I'm about to buy this product, Geoff. I need to update Reason to 12, first.
Awesome sauce Geoff
I upgraded to Oz11. I can’t imagine anyone outdoing Geoff’s tutorials. He’s been ‘first’ for years.
Love you tutorials ! So Amazing !!! Thank you so much !!!!!
I own Nectar 2 and Nectar 3 + and they should make the upgrade $50 not $224 then goes up after! That’s crazy
Thanks Geoff for posting this tutorial! As always this is extremely helpful. Please post affiliate link to volume control feature on your belt!😀
I wonder if Geoff is going to do a deep dive into Ozone 11...I do hope so as I've just splashed on Production Suite 6...ouch!!
I fuc*ing love the song that you folks are demonstrating on.
so auto level is just like vocal rider by waves?
WOW! totally amazing. Can anyone tell me if Nectar 4 has timing correction? Thanks
love the tame impala shirt btw
Great walkthrough, can the follow node for the eq where you get it to follow a certain frequency, be set as a side chain dynamic eq, like in surfer EQ 2 by sound radix, this would help me not upgrade to their eq and stick with iZotope's framework?
I just want to suggest an implementation. When I'm moving the voices in the stereo field in the panel, I want to see the kind of voices I'm working with. It's not simple to remember which color is associated to the unison, to the 5th and so on.
Has anyone compared the Auto Level module with Waves Vocal Rider?
for me the auto level is perfect to not use vocal rider. I'm not using waves plugins anymore for obvious reasons.
AWESOME MAN, LOVE THIS
Excellent tutorial. Guess I'm buying this....
We hope you like it!
Good to see Izotope updating on nectar 3, does 4 still come with the relay option? anybody. cheers!
I was waiting for Geoff to do a tutorial on Nectar 4, as i got it a few days ago
ok finally going to fix the vocals to this
I'm sorry, but what's that at 16:08? 😅
interesting. can you use the voices module to make another harmony of a vocal file, and export that so that you can use that harmony with the backer module?
Why don't I like the voices section? Because I am over 60? Well, at least because I remember and am proud of all the effort and skills we put into our background vocals. I remember late, late nights in the studio giving it all our love ...😊 Wouldn't have been without them...
IZOTOPE WITH THE VOCAL HOPE
Only thing it's missing is 3 octaves of flanged echoed COWBELL. Great unit. Thanks for the great demo. Needs an apt that makes you sound like Paul Rogers on a Shure
57 😂. Be good Nectar MAN. Love your Star Trek processing. 🖖
Hello Great video. Newbie to using Izotope production suite. I have my (instrument and) vocal tracks grouped (Ableton Live 12 Standard) 1- Do you put an instance of Nectar 4 on each track, get the results you want and then on the bus/aux track (going to the master track) or just the bus/aux track or both? Thanks in advance.
Thanks for the tutorial
I BOUTHT THE OZONE 11 WITH THE MIX AND MASTER BUNDLE AND IT TOOK MY MIXES TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL !!!!!
did you have ozone 10 before?
Can you make a video on using Nector 4 and other iZotope plugins for spoken diagloue, specially for audiobooks and podcasts?
We got you covered: bit.ly/3t8b5Xu 😇
posso ligar mic numa placa zomm h6 e tirar uma saida line e mandar p outra placa na entrada ausxiliar da segunda placa?
nao vou ligar noa entrada do mic nao e na entradad ausiliar, posso ou vai queimar a saida? ou entrada/?
Dòes Nectar sit your vocals precisely in the mix before ozone?
So after neuton 4 finishes lerning in the ai power assistant, i don't get any of the knobs or screens in this video. I only have a tone and width adjustments. I'm following the steps. Hoping to learn what I'm doing wrong.
Where from Audiolens take audio signal to capture Targets ???
I use Sonarworks that do EQ coreection for headphones and speakers and it is quiet drasticly with EQ that adds frequencies like +12dB where I have my room frequency spectrum hole.
Should I turn off Sonarworks app BEFOREI decide to take Audiolens snapshot of vocal or full song target ?
So the range on auto level if -12 it’s going to be more dynamic vocal. It range is -4 it’s going to be a smoother vocal because it can only go -4 or +4?
came for the tutorial ended vibing to the song
Maybe my ears are not working correctly but I have seen some other tutorials where I also thought the starting vocals sounded better and more natural than the mixed once with nectar…
At 18:08 - When the Auto-Level is placed on a Bus, does it level each track individually or bring all the individual tracks closer to the same level????????
I'm going off the rails on the Crazy Chain!!!!
Dope plugin!
So, Autolevel is like Selig, right? Also, for CPU performance reasons, I assume you can have a "working track" and then bounce that to a pre-mixed/effected new track? I know that might depend upon the DAW, obviously. Does this run stand alone as well?
Hi Geoff,
I also own RX 10 -- for tone-matching vocal references, should I use 'Lens' as you suggested in this video, or would it perhaps be better to use 'Music Rebalance' on the 'Best' setting (which is excellent, I use it all the time) to isolate the vox within RX, and then simply train lens on the 'Capture' setting instead of 'Acapella'?
Which of these methods should yield the best results?
Thanks!
Is it possible for the eq bands to pitch track and have dynamic gain at the same time in this version?
I have Windows 10, interface VOLT 1 - but with me not work in Nectar 4 the "Baker" function. Die faces comes not to see at all. Why?
And, more better! - if I show my audio for Ozon 11 to hear, it starts to suspend, makes a crash-bang, and suggests so high loudness, that I think my computer flies away. Why?
John Burn from Germany
Can you do a tutorial on how you edit your voice for this videos?
How can I accomplish changing my EQ and compressor settings with time? Do i just need to create a new track? Also, with Voices, how can I accomplish chanhing my harmonies with time? Primarily through MIDI?
For some reason the standalone plugins work but Nectar 4 rack does not. Any advice? Im also using Logic
What in the Namm show is going on ?
So you record the vocals as different tracks & apply this as needed to each track
No more unmask module ?
I want to know what Audio Interface Geoff uses lol these plugins are not friendly while on record. With that being said, when iZotope decides to release an audio interface, it's officially over for RME, more or less.
Mono reverb?? 👀
I love Nectar 4 but I’m curious why my Stereo Width slider disappears occasionally
HI! great video. Quick question- When combining Nectar with Neoverb, what should come first in the processing chain? Or is this meant to be used as a stand alone?
Well, this is frustrating. I have a trial version of Nectar 4, which I would like to use for voiceover. The auto-level module is one of the features I am most interested in, but I can't find it in the plug-in. Every screen shot of the plug in shows auto-level on the left hand panel of the interface, but on mine that space is occupied by the Key module. All online help files say there is supposed to be a way to activate ALM somewhere on the interface but they never show a picture of it, and I've clicked everything on the interface and cannot find anything that will change that left panel from Key to Auto-Level. Can you tell me exactly where to find it so I can test that feature.
Where is the assistant? I download and cannot find in logic
can i use nectar 4 auto level on other instruments?
Hi,
iZotope vinyl does not show any percentage values when adjusting Dust, Scratches, and Wrap values.
Please release a hotfix to resolve this issue.
It's a very good plugin but not being able to precisely adjust our value when adjusting the dust, scratch and wrap values is really annoying.
Logic + iZotope + NI ♥
Also- I'm using Nectar 4 elements and having trouble accessing the details. I can't actually see the EQ curve, when I adjust shape. Is that a limitation of elements?
Please please please call..can you make a video about how to get symphony 3D and stratus 3D. After we bought suite 6
please. Thanks
Hey, can you please get in touch with our authorization team directly? We're available through this form right here: bit.ly/izo-install
Do you use Nectar 4 on a vocal send or individual tracks?
So new to Nectar, what best way to record in, I am using nothing on insert for main vocal and using a BUS to send, that way I can get a nice sound to record but not record the BUS in...so raw in that sound good? or do I add auto level to main insert vocal and record that in.
I need a tutorial for Nectar 4 unmask.
Interesting. Auto leveling sounds alot like compression.. arent they doing the same thing?
and suddenly in 2024 all pop music is full of 10 part harmonies and everyone is like wow your band is amazing
I bought the upgrade from Nectar Elements to Nectar 3 PLUS. NOW you come out with Nectar 4. SO why didn't you FIRST tell me that 4 was coming out, and #2, why I would not get a special discount if I considered AGAIN upgrading to 4 now? And what are the differences between those 2 upgrades, and don't tell me to watch this video. I'd LOVE to see the Marketing DEPT do their JOB and put out a Comparison Chart for those two because I have not seen one of those on your complicated website, unless I either missed it, or it's buried somewhere, OR it's not there. Anyone know? Think I maybe be done dealing/buying from Izotope for awhile, like I've already done with WAVES.
I have a question, lately I got nectar 4, I was wondering if the vocals aren’t loud enough should I use the autolevel volume to increase the vocals? Or I should use the fader?