New Song SA4000, SOOTHE being used... "Cloud Nine" by Wiz

I was going to post a soothe and no-soothe version of a tune I am finishing up, but my recording and mixing skills are not nearly as good as yours wiz.  I feel like it's easy to over-do things with soothe. Unlike your recordings, where I hear little if anything in the way of room resonances, I'm using soothe to take care of some nasty spikes - and on many channels because I tend to use a lot of acoustic instruments. I'm treating the snot out of my room, but it's not enough (yet).  I'll be putting up more panels over the next few weeks, but no doubt, soothe will find its place on most every acoustic instrument I track in the room. It's just incredible how well it works, and though I'm not hearing 'artifacts' I am sensing that overuse can squeeze some life out of things. If donr's words ring true for you, then they do for me 5x over. In your case, I feel like your recordings are so good that you really don't have as much a need for it, but if you do, it might be right for you to re-balance things with another plug somewhere down the line. Anyway, my next step is to look into plugs like Slate's Revival to inject some life back into the tracks.