I purchased the Tonal Bundle from Izotope this week. I haven’t gone too deep in it yet, but what I have seen and heard from it so far is amazing. It was on sale and I just had to get it.
It really speeds things up massively. At least it did for me. I actually would recommend this to anybody looking for a mix bundle. I would not have purchased a whole bunch of other plugins if I would have had this earlier.
Anybody else using this? I produce Techno / House and am coming to the point where speed of production is becoming a factor.
Digging up an old thread, hope that’s OK - I would be interested on anyone’s opinions on this. I can get the Tonal Bundle (Ozone 9 Advanced, Nectar 9 Advanced, Tonal Balance Control 2) for £170 as I have a few plugins, which seems pretty cheap compared to them individually.
Right now I honestly don’t have much use for it, but I’d like to aim to make more/better music over the next year and as part of that, would like to learn a bit more about the mixing/mastering stage, which I’m honestly pretty clueless about right now… so I’d be looking at it as investment into learning that stuff, rather than something to use right now.
Is the Izotope stuff worth buying while I have this good price on offer? (for a few more days). The cost isn’t an issue, but equally I just don’t want to buy it and then never use it – I can’t really assess it by testing it out as I don’t really know what I’m looking for! Along the same lines I already have the Elements versions (which I’ve stuck on the odd recording on auto mode to make it louder, lol), the stuff that comes with Ableton Suite (Glue Compressor etc), and u-he Satin.
It’s an all in one package and we’ll worth that money. Very professional tools. I use them all the time. Especially the compressor, the eq and ozone. They are very good
But given where you stand those are tools that you don’t NEED now. If you know nothing about mixing & mastering, you’re better off learning the basics and using the tools that are available to you already (Ableton Suite EQs, Glue Compressor, Limiters etc) until you have a decent idea of what you want/need/like.
The iZotope stuff has lots of automation features that won’t really contribute towards your learning / understanding mixing.
Re the deal you are looking at, that particular deal comes back often! On Pluginboutique you can but that bundle at that price frequently. So I wouldn’t worry too much about “missing out” at this point.
Nice, that is great advice! I guess that is what I was wondering - am I better off learning with the Ableton stuff until I really know what I am doing. Sounds like the answer is yes, and good to know the deal comes around fairly often. Thanks!
Get the book «mixing secrets for the small studio”. It doesn’t give you the same instant satisfaction as the new plugins but I bet it will give you better results after a short while.
