Unveiling TEOTE by Voxango: An Overview and How I Use It

Tutorial | Nov 26, 2020

In this video, I showcased the TEOTE plug-in by Voxango and explained why I think it's useful. I showed how I use it to reduce and push frequencies on my drum bus and how you can change the profile and bands. I also explained the dynamic section, with the FX knob and Mastering button, as well as the low cut and high cut, room dip and boost threshold. Finally, I shared my experience using the plug-in on drums and the master bus, and why I think it is great for rougher estimations or matchings.

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Questions & Answers #

Maybe you dont watch the video, here are some important takeaways:

What is TEOTE by Voxango? #

TEOTE by Voxango is a plugin designed to help balance out frequencies against a profile, allowing you to customize the sound of any track. It offers 64 band resolution, adjustable profile and slope, low cut and high cut filters, a room dip feature that reduces room resonance, and a dynamic section with a FX knob for wet/dry balance, a mastering button for gentle gain adjustments, and a boost threshold for limiting the amount of gain applied.

How does TEOTE by Voxango differ from GoalForce and DSQ by TBPro audio? #

TEOTE by Voxango offers more customizability than GoalForce and DSQ by TBPro Audio. It allows users to adjust the profile and slope, choose between low and high-cut filters, and adjust the amount of gain applied. Additionally, it has a room dip feature that can reduce room resonance, and a dynamic section with a FX knob for wet/dry balance, a mastering button for gentle gain adjustments, and a boost threshold for limiting gain.

Transcription #

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[00:00.000] Welcome back to another video. Today I want to showcase to you a plug-in called
[00:05.200] TEOTE by Voxango and as a disclaimer this video is also sponsored by Voxango so thanks for that.
[00:13.200] I want to show how I use TEOTE and why I think it's useful, explain a bit what you can do with it
[00:21.600] and how it differentiates from like goalforce and dsq by tbpro audio.
[00:28.080] So I would say let's start the video and yeah let's dive right in.
[00:38.240] So this is how this plug-in looks like if you open it in your door and it's already
[00:43.360] working here as you can see on my drums bus reducing and pushing frequencies.
[00:51.120] And this is basically what this plug-in does. It tries to balance out your frequencies against
[00:56.240] a profile and in the case of this plug-in you can change the profile. It's not hard coded as in
[01:03.360] as in other other plug-ins you can change the profile. So here we can go from flat to equal
[01:09.600] loudness to equal rock equal loudness plus rock and in this case here I have chosen flat which is
[01:17.520] okay for me and not only you can choose the profile you can also change the slope and in this case
[01:23.440] here I am at minus minus 3 which is I think pink noise so the curve or the slope of pink noise
[01:30.800] but you can also choose your go back to the default setting which is minus 4.5 I think that this
[01:36.400] this is more like a pop uh pop-oriented music curve but this is drum bass I want to have a bright
[01:44.800] sound I want to have a bright loud sound so I go to the pink noise profile slope okay. What's also
[01:53.840] nice is that you can change the bands this is also not usual these type of plug-ins so you can go
[02:01.760] from pretty high detailed resolution of 64 bands you can go down to three bands which is
[02:10.160] useful in the case here of the drum bass sometimes you just want to balance out drums just roughly
[02:16.800] you don't want to have all the details balanced out individually you probably need this by
[02:24.960] on piano sounds or pad sounds lead sounds or you know noise textures or something like this
[02:32.080] point the case of this drum bass here three bands are pretty okay so you can also choose something
[02:38.720] in between which is nice and you can also go pretty high detailed here to up to 64 bands
[02:45.360] then we have a low cut in the high cut and by default you are dialed in at 35 hertz and high
[02:53.040] cut is at 40k which is nice to have on the mastering bus because you need to low cut and high cut
[02:59.440] there anyway so this is by default and if you don't need it you can switch here to aptly to range
[03:06.080] which basically changes these low cut and high cut knobs to yeah a range range filters where you
[03:16.800] can say I just want to only balance out frequencies in the middle so let's leave the low end and the
[03:24.320] high end alone and just balance out everything in between these two sliders so it's more like a
[03:30.560] limiter of where this plug in acts okay so this is also nice to have what I need to your high
[03:38.000] cut and a low cut just double click for the default values then we have some a strange knob
[03:43.520] here called room dip and I don't know what this actually really does it kind of reduces frequency
[03:51.680] at around 200 hertz if you if you use your the online help it says profile smith minus 2.5 dB
[04:00.560] depth frequency hertz accounts for usual house rooms resonance mode which reduces in
[04:06.720] telegivillity set to 20 to disengage this depth so if you go down here to 20 it's disabled so it
[04:14.560] kind of reduces resonances in your room if you use speakers then you can reduce your room's
[04:22.960] resonance with this with this knob here so interesting thing I never heard of that I don't know
[04:28.640] how it works I think it just reduces frequency okay that's basically the whole section here of
[04:35.120] of the spectral profile so we can change the profile which this plug in matches your audio
[04:41.440] signal against then we have in front here the dynamic section where we have at first here this
[04:48.640] fx knob which basically is just a try and wet knob and when we go here to the online app it says
[04:57.040] affects the strength of the effect by specifying mix balance between the effect that wet and try
[05:03.600] signals so it's a wet and try or just a mix now basically so you can mix in the wet signal
[05:10.640] to your try signal so if we have this at full here you can see it acts pretty drastically
[05:18.000] so I don't think it's just a it's just a mix knob it looks like it's more like a strength knob
[05:25.760] how much you want to have this plug in act on your audio signal we have this mastering button here
[05:34.800] which basically yeah like it says here in the online help mastering mode enabled offers a lot
[05:44.080] gentle again adjustment so you can put this with this activated on the mastering or on the master
[05:49.600] channel and it's it's more gentle this way so it doesn't act too drastically on the audio signal
[05:57.120] itself then we have this boost threshold here if we go up to zero it basically doesn't change
[06:08.160] the signal at all and if you go back here to minus 60 you can see it's applying more changes
[06:17.440] to the gain than before and this is more like a limiter where you can limit the range in how much
[06:23.600] at max this plug in act so it's it's not a frequency limiter like this one here it's more like a
[06:32.560] gain limiter so we can reduce the gain at how much gain is applied at max and then we have your
[06:39.680] timing settings for the for the attack and the release of course all these frequency bands have
[06:46.320] compressor on it so you can change the timing setting here for the bass and with the bass I think
[06:53.920] this plug in means the lowest band which is this one here and then you can change the tie the
[06:59.200] timing of the top bands via this slider here so if you want to have or have the compressor act
[07:06.320] more faster on the top and you probably go to 120 here so you can dial in the attack and release
[07:14.560] settings for the low end and then the top end is acting more quickly right so then we have your
[07:21.440] also now something like I think a timing and fluid punch here is perfectly nice for drums
[07:27.920] and energetic is probably something for a pad sounds for slowly evolving sounds and fluid
[07:35.520] punches more for drums so and then you have also a lot of stuff here in between these two extremes
[07:41.920] and yeah that's basically it the overall explanation what this plug indoors and how it works
[07:50.880] we have of course here some settings for over sampling you can go up to a time over sampling if
[07:57.360] you want on the mastering bus and we can just leave it on audio and this means it basically acts
[08:04.640] in I think one time over sampling and when you bounce the track to audio then it switches to a
[08:11.680] times so you have a much much better quality when you bounce out your whole project afterwards
[08:19.840] how I use it it's hard to describe but I think it sounds best on drums or drums buses on drum
[08:26.800] end bass basses and I use it sometimes on the master bus here itself and it's because you can
[08:35.840] change the bands and how much you want to apply it and yeah this basically the timings
[08:43.760] of the compression of the compression of each band that's why I think it's great on drums and
[08:53.280] the percussion elements in general with other options like goalfors I don't have these options
[08:59.680] I just I just put it on and I can change the amount and that's it and here I can play around
[09:05.840] see what what it does and how it sounds on the different settings and yeah I can dial it in
[09:11.680] basically creatively so it offers at least me some options right and also I have the feeling that
[09:20.720] this most of these bands here which are at max 64 bands are pretty rough I think most of the
[09:29.600] plugins like goalfors go more into detail it's more like for shaping or balancing out
[09:36.480] individual pretty noisy signals or in the case of the DS EQ I think it's more for reducing harsh
[09:46.480] frequencies in the top end or for noisy pretty detailed sounds and this one here is more like for
[09:54.560] you know for rougher estimations or matchings like drums or bass sounds so not so detailed
[10:04.000] sounds basically but that's just my impression for it I think it's probably great on every sound
[10:11.200] and it's at least nice to have more options than just the usual plugins we had before and it's
[10:18.480] a nice plugin and I probably use it a lot on drums like I said maybe try it out download the
[10:25.680] demo version it's also pretty cheap I think at the default it's 79 dollars or 79 bucks or
[10:33.360] something like this and at the moment it's black friday it's black friday probably for two weeks
[10:39.760] or three weeks so we can get it much cheaper I think so give it a try I'm not done yet with
[10:48.720] experimenting with it and trying it out but I wanted to give you yeah a short overview and
[10:56.960] tell you how I use it let me know what you think maybe you already have it tried out give me
[11:04.000] some feedback and yeah that's it for this video thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one bye