

Our only minor gripe is that where Neutron and Ozone offer the ability to fine-tune the metering, Nectar’s settings are almost non-existent.

This could be a piano or guitar part, or perhaps a whole buss that contains all of your midrange instruments. For this, you’ll need to place a second instance of Nectar 3 (or of Neutron or Relay) on another track that may have clashing frequency content. So in some respects, this is a better use of the AI Assistant, as nine times out of 10, the vocal will want to be the most prominent track in the mix.īut wait! The Assistant isn’t finished… There’s also an Unmask feature that can be run in parallel to the Assist function.

One of the issues we had when using Neutron’s Assistant on multiple tracks was that it made everything too bright. In particular, the overall Character EQ and Dynamics control helps lift the top end of the vocal in an effective and tasteful manner. After selecting from Vintage, Modern or Dialogue modes, and whether you want Light, Moderate or Aggressive intensity, the plug-in listens to your audio and spits out a custom-made preset including character EQ, level balancing, compression, subtractive EQ, de-essing and pitch correction (if required) and finally reverb.Īs with Neutron and Ozone, this is just a starting point, and you’ll want to make adjustments to taste, but the results are pretty decent. The amber nectarĪs expected, Nectar 3 includes iZotope’s AI learning technology, this time in the form of Vocal Assistant. Phew! If you dig a little deeper, though, it’s clear to see that this is a substantial new release with some impressive tricks up its sleeve. On the surface, many of the modules remain the same and include two compressors with four algorithms two EQs a de-esser a gate a stereo delay with five saturation modes a Dimension module (chorus, phaser and flanger effects) real-time pitch correction a Harmony module a smooth plate reverb and a limiter. IZotope has updated its Nectar vocal-production suite to version 3, with a tasty new GUI and intelligent mixing features that bring it in line with Neutron and Ozone.
