Polish your vocals to a professional sheen with iZotope Nectar 3 Plus, a downloadable plug-in designed for vocal mixing and production. Everything you need to process the human voice is here, from high-quality equalizers and compressors to modulation and time-based effects. No longer will you need to break out a vocal into parallel tracks or aux returns—now you can do it all in one intuitive yet powerful interface.
Nectar 3 Plus is a revamped version of Nectar 3, a plug-in venerated among top pros and aspiring amateurs alike for its ease of use and for its studio-quality sound. Chief among the improvements is an upgraded Virtual Assistant. Like many iZotope plug-ins, this software can analyze incoming audio and generate a custom-tweaked starting point for your mix. Nectar 3 Plus improves the Unmask Mode of the Virtual Assistant, giving you more control over how your vocal sits in the overall mix. Also, RX 8 Breath Control is now included, alongside Melodyne 4 Essentials for pitch correction.
- Shape your tracks with a comprehensive drag-and-drop EQ, one which can follow the harmonics in a vocal to automatically tamp down resonances or emphasize pleasant parts of the voice. This EQ can also be used in a dynamic mode for creative or tone-correcting effects.
- Balance your vocal level without pumping or other compression artifacts thanks to an exceedingly natural auto-level, which rides the vocal in a ±3 dB range of your selected target.
- De-ess your vocals transparently with the De-esser module.
- Add character-enhancing or dynamics-taming compression with a dedicated compression module, which has several selectable modes to model vintage or modern hardware.
- Gate out extraneous noise with the gate.
- Use subtle automatic pitch correction, or dive in deeper with Melodyne 4 Essentials, included with Nectar 3 Plus.
- Control stray breaths with RX 8's Breath Control Module.
- The Dimension module provides chorus, flanging, and more.
- Reverb and Delay modules offer exciting and tweakable time-based effects.
- The Harmony module offers the ability to add up to 8 voices of harmony, which can be pitched up or down, at Unison for double tracking effects, or played through MIDI. The Harmony mode offers modulation over the pitch and speed of the additional harmonies, and you can pan them all on an easy-to-read GUI.
- Add harmonic excitement to the vocals with Saturation.