Anybody here use har-bal? what do you think about it?
http://www.har-bal.com/
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wouterhisschemoller
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Yes, I tried it out a bit last year, but it's not something I would use. It's meant to be used as a EQ on your complete mix, and I prefer to EQ separate sounds and instruments to get the mix to sound right instead of EQing the whole thing. Much more control that way.
And Har-Bals main feature, the match EQ, doesn't work in most cases and doesn't make sense. You get it to analyze how loud or soft each frequency in a track is, and then you can make another track match the frequencies of the first track.
The idea is that you can make your own track sound just as good and professional as your favourite smash hit. But if that track has loud sounds at around 1 kHz and your own track hasn't much going on at that frequency, Har-Bal would boost the 1 kHz area where no boosting was needed in your track.
I liked however to see the analyzed frequency spectrums of a few tracks by others and to see how different they were from each other and from my own tracks. And I liked the graphical way you could manipulate the frequency spectrum. But it's no solution to automatically fix your mix with just one push of a button.
And Har-Bals main feature, the match EQ, doesn't work in most cases and doesn't make sense. You get it to analyze how loud or soft each frequency in a track is, and then you can make another track match the frequencies of the first track.
The idea is that you can make your own track sound just as good and professional as your favourite smash hit. But if that track has loud sounds at around 1 kHz and your own track hasn't much going on at that frequency, Har-Bal would boost the 1 kHz area where no boosting was needed in your track.
I liked however to see the analyzed frequency spectrums of a few tracks by others and to see how different they were from each other and from my own tracks. And I liked the graphical way you could manipulate the frequency spectrum. But it's no solution to automatically fix your mix with just one push of a button.