NovelTech Vocal Enhancer Video Review

NovelTech claim that their new Vocal Enhancer can help get vocals better sat in mixes.

Russ tests the claim and the plug-in - see what he thinks.

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hi its resting protease expert and I've
got myself a copy of the novel technical
enhancer and what it basically does is
it suggests that the where conventional
eq and compression which basically it
just takes a signal in and then it
allows you to cut almost or to add some
compression on and have attacked I'm and
release time in the compression or
cutting boost in eq what this does it is
in analyzing signal before it goes in
and makes minor adjustments in the
background in a psychic istic way so
that it doesn't work like a conventional
eq so that's a big that's a big claim to
make can it do what conventional eq and
compression carding so I've got a really
cool in here got the channel g compact
from a crisp it's a wonderful piece of
gear and and about some compression and
some EQ on this i'm using the 8a style a
cubicle for the install on this this
this vocal and this is a perfect track
to try this on because it's got a
mixture of audio so let me play this bit
so got some quiet yeah person and
so you often have is things like a
snowman down
his things get louder and louder that
the vocal starts to disappear
so so of course there's ways around that
you can you can do things like ducking
the rest of the track you can ride the
fader on the vocal you can do more eq
and he could you could ride the eq so
you could have bits where you are
pushing up the vocal 5 k's about the way
the place to do on a vocal really to get
to get the option for here
me person on their butt a sibling now
pass it on down and what of course we
could put a DSO there as well because
the minute you put a DSO behind you lose
clarity again because it's getting rid
of some of the top and so can this EQ do
this unit do what conventional stuff
can't do anything it describes itself as
Psychostick and one thing that used to
describe yourself as psychic as it was
the FX all excited and most excited
since so although this isn't an exciter
it's easy same kind of technologies and
so what you have is you have a an
enhancement that's how much it's going
to do we also have strong and regular
processing we have the focus frequency
the focus the friction which he kind of
does it stuff around between low and
high and then you have appt eq points
you have a low and high point which is
going to do most of its work and then
you have these notes that you can move
these up and down there like that that
resonant frequency adjustments here and
there worth trying as well and what's
really nice as well as if you hold down
the right mouse you can move these about
so that you move and frequency so I'm
around the frequency about vocal
frequency where we really need to get
some clarity and so I'm gonna do first
is initiated action some presets you can
try and you can store these as well
UAB comparison so there's the NS the PEI
other thing as well is you one thing i
found which is really useful is to use
automation so I'm going to turn it off
for a second on this it so it's not
doing anything is to is to automate it
because when I found already is this
enhancement needs needs needs to vary a
bit and have also found as well is it's
worth pushing lots of audio and more
audio it's got to work with the the
better the processing seems to me that's
not the more enhancement you do but the
Morgaine going in there in the first
place with it seems to work better i
found with a with lots of gangrene so we
can adjust gain in we can adjust gain
and there's also gain reduction to
compress this so that it normalizes it
basically as it goes through the process
so let me show you it at off first and
then back on so
personal and that's clarity is safe for
them in the band come in
despite again that within
has gone down
yeah
so you can hear it is making a
difference so to say we've got this kind
of focus here that we can use to to find
the frequencies that really need
affecting on a vocal it is around 5k
mark doing and every move things around
and
right now
this basically gives us more kind of
Sheen and top and everything and uses
more mid-range person and down
yeah
12 or 24 DB per octave as well
me around passing on down
I think that's to say what i found is
that it works even better if you can
automate the settings on it so if I turn
this into a knot automation on its gonna
dip it you can see if I just move my
mouse across the timeline here you can
see that they're slow and then further
up here
it moves up so this is with automation
me around passing on down
yeah
so it works i'm not entirely sure what's
going on in the background but as I say
the the resonant can help this with
these resonant nodes that they talk
about where you can move those Rand Paul
me around grabbing a snowman down so
Paul me around and pass on down
support me around and pass on down
support me around and Pat
so does it work yes it does does it do
things that eq and compresses can't do
it seems to do that as well I've got
virtually everything I want in my
arsenal and this seems to add something
else so it's worth trying out and see
what you think it's novel and I suppose
that's great that it's called the novel
technical enhances so we're throwing out
there's one small thing i'm going to
feed back to you that I've also already
fed back before even did my review with
the automation in ProTools right now it
seems that right now you could only
write manual automation from the
timeline here so if I if I should if I
use my three-fingered salute and and and
choose the automations have chosen some
automation which also what you'll find
it if you go into the automation window
hear these words don't marry up with
these items so it takes a bit of
figuring out what these words are so if
you see this process and character
that's actually focus and enhancement
and i have emailed them about this and
they said this is to do with keeping it
too consistent with the original version
of it so that's slightly confusing what
you also find as well as if I put this
into right mode to do the automation
me around passing on down
it's not writing it whereas if I go in
here and I draw it in it right in so
that needs looking at
me around passing on down
so as you say well worth checking out
well with downloading I think there's a
demo check it out but it does work and
and a novel approach to getting your
vocals better sat in a mix
thanks for watching I'll see you again
soon