Nectar 2 vs izotope alloy 2
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Warm and smooth to hi-fi and wide to ugly and grungy, it all sounds great. Like all iZotope products, the sound quality and flexibility of each of Nectar 2’s many functions is generally excellent. It does virtually everything…and does it well. In fact, aside from its CPU usage drawbacks (more on that later), you could literally mix an entire album using just this plugin. There’s no reason why you couldn’t use Nectar 2 with its four styles of compression (digital, vintage, optical or solid state) as a kick drum compressor, or as a steep resonant filter for samples, or as a plate reverb return off a snare send, or as a chorus for your guitar tracks. By skipping past the presets menu and opening Nectar 2’s “Advanced” window, one has access to a host of all kinds of individual plugins within the plugin, from harmonizers to distortions to delays to compressors to EQ’s to de-essers and more. In fact, vocal processing is just one of Nectar 2’s literally zillions of potential uses. This is the thing though - while Nectar 2 at first appears as though it’s main function is to flip through a comprehensive list of well-titled banks and presets (like “Male Vintage”, “Sampled Vocal Hook”, “Indy Folk & Sons”, etc.) and instantly get a polished vocal sound, presets are just the start of its functions. Flipping through these programs can often introduce even more experienced mixers to sonic ideas they might not have had otherwise.
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Nectar 2’s preset menu is full of a wide variety of vocal processing vibes, from light tonal enhancers to indie rock-style dude shouting in a bathroom-type sounds to freaky harmonized alien dance stuff. More experienced mix engineers may find Nectar 2’s preset menu valuable as well, in that going down the list can be an eye (or ear)-opening experience. It should be noted however that Nectar 2’s preset vocal chains can be appreciated by more than just the novice engineer. More experienced mix engineers would probably tend to carve their vocal sounds from scratch, using a variety of different insert plugins and aux sends, tailoring them to the song, and translating the ideas in their heads to numerous plug-in settings.
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When I was first introduced to Nectar a couple of years ago, my initial impression was that it was designed less for experienced mixers and more for musicians and novice engineers who might not have a well-refined mental palette of vocal tones and effects, or don’t know how to quickly achieve the sounds they want. Nectar 2’s main focus is probably its vast menu of 150+ presets that handle everything required in the world of vocal mixing so that you can start with a dry vocal and, in an instant, effortlessly dial up a fully-produced vocal sound. Auto pitch correction, gating, de-essing, 12-voice harmonizing, tube or tape saturation emulations, 8-band EQ, 4 different styles of compression, digital or analog-style delays, EMT 140-emulated plate reverb and limiting…plus additional effects like distortion, phaser/flanger/chorus and some subtle to freaky echo stuff - it’s all packed in there, and the user can use any combination or all of the above tools at once and in any sequence.īut wait! There’s more…If you purchase Nectar 2 Production Suite (MSRP $299, street price of $249), you also get the Breath Control plug-in, and the hugely useful Nectar 2 Pitch Editor (which is sort of like a simplified Melodyne, more on that later). Nectar 2 is almost like the Ozone of vocal plugins, in that it contains everything needed to process a vocal - while only requiring one insert within your DAW of choice (comes in AAX, RTAS/Audiosuite, VST, VST 3 and Audio Unit formats).
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IZotope, makers of some of the most advanced and comprehensive sound-shaping plugins available, and probably best known for their all-in-one mastering plug-in Ozone, recently released Nectar 2, the update to their all-in-one vocal processing plugin, Nectar.