#Neutron 3 standard update#
#Neutron 3 standard professional#

#Neutron 3 standard update#

Neutron 3 is an absolutely worthy update to an already incredibly useful tool. Using Neutron 3 consistently can actually make you a better mixer, as you begin to make the associations between what frequencies clash, what frequencies compete, and what frequencies compliment. In general, all of the new visual feedback allows you to really see what’s going on in addition to hearing it. This allows you to make smaller adjustments that actually have a larger impact. You can link the EQ of another element with ‘inverse link’ and bring up a frequency band on one track while simultaneously reducing that band in another.

The EQ module has been given a growth spurt, and everything is focused on allowing you to see and remedy competing elements of your mix.

This feature is most definitely NOT one you’ll want to skip over. Mix Assistant was able to get me a great starting point in nearly every test song I used it on, and having that as a starting point to switch over to the ‘visual mixer’ made a rather mundane mixing task I had on my plate rather fun. One of the most important lessons I’ve learned over the years, however, is this… never rule out tools that save you time.

#Neutron 3 standard professional#

As a professional in this area, I won’t lie - I was skeptical at first. You can pick tracks to ‘focus’ on like a lead vocal or important driving harmonic/melodic instrument, and Neutron will adjust accordingly. This tool will listen to your entire song, then grab control of each track (you’ll have to instantiate several instances in order for it to do this) and it will give you a starting point of where Neutron thinks your mix ‘should be’. Mix Assistant is probably the most ‘in your face’ new feature to look at. To ELI5 (explain like I’m 5), you tell Neutron you’re putting it on an acoustic guitar, and it adds all the tools it needs to make YOUR tracked acoustic guitar sound like the BEST tracked acoustic guitar based on its internal knowledge of what the ‘best’ acoustic guitar sounds like. With Neutron, you also get an incredibly advanced set of AI tools that will analyze your source material, and try to add the tools that it needs to get your source material a little closer to the ‘ideal’ version of that. It’s kind of like the ‘ultimate channel strip’. EQ, compress, add ambience, sculpt sound, add width, sonically enhance… it’s all there. You put this plugin on a track in your mix, and it can do whatever you need it to. Sure, there are channel strips, dynamic EQs, reverbs, saturators, and the like - but I have yet to see anything that ‘pulls it all together’ into a single plugin like Neutron.Įssentially, Neutron can be thought of as a collection of tools that you load up in a single plugin. It’s really hard to pin down what it’s ‘like’ compared to other plugins because really, there simply isn’t anything else out there that is even close. Neutron is a tightly designed mix tool that you can use to subtly tweak OR to completely revolutionize your entire mixing workflow. I was a really big fan of Neutron 2 and the changes it made to my workflow, so when Neutron 3 was announced I got very excited to see what iZotope could possible add on to make Neutron even better. The tight integration between Ozone, Nectar and Neutron that you can accomplish with a little effort can pay off in a huge way sonically. The entire suite of mixing tools from iZotope just keeps getting more and more compelling with every release.