Sir Worrall is the David Attenborough of plugins. And so here, on the channel strip of a DAW, we find the elusive fab filter plugin playing upstream of the compression plugins. A truly ordinary sight here on the Serengeti
Not sure what to say other than I would like to congratulate you, Fabfilter, for not only managing to stay that long in the industry providing high quality tools but for also being one of the most beloved plugin companies out there; this is a massive accomplishment and you deserve it, good job guys! And also congrats to Dan for being the voice of your tutorials for more than fifteen years, that's also something worth celebrating as well :)
🔥🔥🔥 Noticing that Dan Worrall's voice is narrating another audio production video or technique is as exciting to me as listenting to the Starwars theme song at the beginning of the movie🔥🔥🔥
28:24 Pro-C2 can actually do "overcompression" or ratios beyond brickwall limiting. Set the ratio to 100:1 and then with the "mix" slider in the bottom right, increase it past 100%. I think that calling it "mix" is misleading, because it should be called "scale". It doesn't blend in the dry signal, which can only be done with the dry make-up gain.
Amazing as always. You shed so much light onto Fabfilter greatness with that much ease. Congratulations to Fabfilter, 20 years is an amazing stretch, and still delivering so many nuggets, incredible tools and and interfaces that set a standard. Again and again.
I’m in lull - life has pulled me away from my studio while I get some important maters in hand. This video made me really happy - simply put my brain back in it. Grateful
Here's a tip: use a tom sample in your convolution reverb and send your kick to it. Use length and size to tune the convolution. Can add great low end to kicks.
@@lo-dose yes, instead of loading an impulse response you can load any kind of wav file in most convolution reverbs. Try for example to load a pad sound. Can give very interesting results. A tom sample can work very well on a kick send. Tune and blend to taste.
@@EdwinDekker71 aye. Adding hihats as the convulution is a cool way to add odd brightness and crunch to percussion. Noisia used to do stuff like this too
Your 'tutorial videos' are always so inspiring, which is so rare. Thank you very much for your work Dan! I'm hoping you can answer a question regarding "ducking"??😊 I rarely like it when the loudness of a kick strike heavily impacts how much the bass ducks.. sometimes i think it would even be better if the relationship was inversed (duck less for hard hits and more for soft hits). Do you have any tips for controlling the dynamics of the ducking?? I usually preprocess kick and snare in separate 'side chain channels' and limit the dynamic range of what goes into a compressor side chain. But I am guessing you might have some great tips on the matter! Anyone is ofcourse welcome to chip in on the matter 💖 Thanks again!
I'm hoping for a Fabfilter Channel Strip. Or a Pitch Correction Plugin for Vocals, like a combination of Melodyne, Autotune and bx_crispytuner but in much higher quality in sound and processing. Or maybe Fabfilter hardware? That would be so cool..and expensive 😂
Edit : I typed this comment before seeing trick 4, which comes close to what I described lol I "discovered" what is probably PM synthesis using Volcano 3. Goes like this : pure sine wave (for simplicity let's say it's 100hz) fed into V3. Then, allpass filter (clean style) at exactly 100hz. Then an XLFO to modulate the filter frequency. XLFO's speed and modulation amounts determine the level of added harmonics. Add a second XLFO to modulate the first one's frequency (and more if you want), and you get a very complex, harmonically rich signal. Use multiples of the sine wave's frequency for XLFO speed, and it affects the timbre in a more musical way. Change filter poles for even more complex sounds. Add different envelopes to modulate the XLFO's modulation amounts. In Bitwig (and possibly other DAWs) you can create mappings so that the sine wave, the filter and the XLFO frequencies can all be linked to play with MIDI notes (up to a certain point, I believe the XLFOs have an upper limit). Add different envelopes to modulate the XLFO's modulation amounts -bam, evolving harmonics. To take it even further, after the first allpass filter modulation creates upper harmonics, add allpass filters to THOSE harmonics and modulate them the same way. I don't have enough technical knowledge to understand what happens, but it's cool as cucumber
About the tip n 15) I made an "exponential widening eq" with 2 proq3 in series, following the same principle but with carefully selected "exponential frequencies" (it's surely wrong how I call it but is to give an idea) complementing each other. I can even turn a mono bass into a stereo bass with a very interesting rich sound and "movement" while keeping a perfect mono compatibility. I think this is the best way to make a mono sound stereo without losing anything when you listen in mono, particularly for elements with low end content.
Big ups Dan, to @fabifilter, please give us a pro q option/knob where we can move all of the eq nodes together in your next update. A scale function would also make me a very happy camper. It’s super frustrating that timeless and volcano can do it but not the Eq. Modulators and dynamic eq control would also be great!
@FabFilter hey guys congrats on 20 years! Just one request: Can you guys add the rest of the Twin 2 factory presets into Twin 3 just like you guys did with the Twin 1 factory presets? Please and Thank you!
I met the FF boys on their first frankfurt messe 20 years ago! Or whenever it was. Close to then anywho. I was at a stand opposite and went to have a gander at the filter plugin.
Does anyone know if it's possible to delete a band via the keyboard in Pro Q 3? I've searched to no avail, it doesn't seem possible which sucks because I find having to hit those tiny x frustrating after long hours.
27:40 He moves so fast I'm rewinding to see how he is doing this EQ and the settings for each band and the slopes, can someone explain this ? on mine the purple comes after the a and the red dot, ... he doesn't even show how those are set up
That's great but I have to say I don't feel comfortable with the automatic one knob compression. I need to know at least what exactly it is doing (if controlling it isn't an option) to know when to use it.
20 years of Sir Worrall being the greatest tutor on UA-cam
UA-cam wasn't even invented 20 years ago.. lol
The first fabfilter video is 16 years old.
@@Jaeilelectronics give it until february '25 and it might be somewhat legit. x)
PREACH BROTHER
@@Jaeilelectronics but the company exists that long. :)
@@TraxtasyMediabut what you said doesn’t make any sense :-)
Shout out to Dan for constantly reminding me what an amateur I am 😂❤
Congrats 🎉and thank you 🙏
Dan raises all boats
Who else was also delighted when they heard Dan's voice at the start of this video!
like a thank Fuc..
i came to the comments to almost say just this....i had this set up in another tab just waiting...as soon as a finally clicked it i lit up
DAN WORRALL is BACK on the FabFilter channel! What a wonderful sight to see.
New Fab video, New Dan video, I'm twice as happy.
20 years of fabfilter!! 🎉🎉❤️❤️
I’ll be watching this video for years to try to absorb all of this. Well done!
Sir Worrall is the David Attenborough of plugins. And so here, on the channel strip of a DAW, we find the elusive fab filter plugin playing upstream of the compression plugins. A truly ordinary sight here on the Serengeti
There's very few UA-cam creators that demand rewatching. Dan is one of those singular examples. Damn that's some chunky goodness!
Not sure what to say other than I would like to congratulate you, Fabfilter, for not only managing to stay that long in the industry providing high quality tools but for also being one of the most beloved plugin companies out there; this is a massive accomplishment and you deserve it, good job guys!
And also congrats to Dan for being the voice of your tutorials for more than fifteen years, that's also something worth celebrating as well :)
this is the best sound design tutorial ever!!!!volcano 3 is the ultimate plugin to bring production to the next level 👍
If anything is going to make me watch a mixing/audio video all the way through, it's when Dan's beauitful voice starts speaking. 🔥
Tip 1 - listen Dan Worral before any session for inspiration!
Ain’t that the truth
Video: "Hi, and welcome back"
Me, very loudly at my screen: "HI DAN!!!"
14:53 GRANDMASTER LEVEL MOVE!! Pretty sure I screamed out loud when I realized where you were going with that modulation setup...
thanks guys, your plugins are great
30+ minutes with Dan Worrall? Is it christmas yet?
Lovely, thanks FF and Dan!
🔥🔥🔥 Noticing that Dan Worrall's voice is narrating another audio production video or technique is as exciting to me as listenting to the Starwars theme song at the beginning of the movie🔥🔥🔥
28:24 Pro-C2 can actually do "overcompression" or ratios beyond brickwall limiting. Set the ratio to 100:1 and then with the "mix" slider in the bottom right, increase it past 100%. I think that calling it "mix" is misleading, because it should be called "scale". It doesn't blend in the dry signal, which can only be done with the dry make-up gain.
Amazing as always. You shed so much light onto Fabfilter greatness with that much ease.
Congratulations to Fabfilter, 20 years is an amazing stretch, and still delivering so many nuggets, incredible tools and and interfaces that set a standard.
Again and again.
You, sir, are a master! It is pure imspiration to watch your videos and this one in particular!
I’m in lull - life has pulled me away from my studio while I get some important maters in hand. This video made me really happy - simply put my brain back in it. Grateful
2m 36s in and my brain has broken 😆🤯 Thanks Dan, you clever bastard 🙏
Brilliant just what i needed as I watch and pause while using the same plugins on my project at the sametime to learn faster
dan gets me everytime... love this guy..
Here's a tip: use a tom sample in your convolution reverb and send your kick to it. Use length and size to tune the convolution. Can add great low end to kicks.
Don't understand your description. Use a Tom sample as the reverb itself? Then send kick to that reverb?
@@lo-dose yes, instead of loading an impulse response you can load any kind of wav file in most convolution reverbs. Try for example to load a pad sound. Can give very interesting results. A tom sample can work very well on a kick send. Tune and blend to taste.
@@EdwinDekker71 aye. Adding hihats as the convulution is a cool way to add odd brightness and crunch to percussion. Noisia used to do stuff like this too
'filter as oscillator' was my fave
The king is back to bless us.
What an amazing set of tips. Thanks Dan/FF
Your 'tutorial videos' are always so inspiring, which is so rare. Thank you very much for your work Dan! I'm hoping you can answer a question regarding "ducking"??😊 I rarely like it when the loudness of a kick strike heavily impacts how much the bass ducks.. sometimes i think it would even be better if the relationship was inversed (duck less for hard hits and more for soft hits). Do you have any tips for controlling the dynamics of the ducking?? I usually preprocess kick and snare in separate 'side chain channels' and limit the dynamic range of what goes into a compressor side chain. But I am guessing you might have some great tips on the matter!
Anyone is ofcourse welcome to chip in on the matter 💖
Thanks again!
that Snare snap trick with MB, and the stereo split with pro3 were killer, why have i never thought of that?!?!?
Each tip could be a video on its own. Great stuff
Amazing video
Dan the man 🔥
18:54 🎵
Our boy Dan doin some TUTORIAL SINGING over here 😂😂
🎶"Up or down, scale the gains"
Work can't end soon enough!!!! Excited to dig in =)
Best plugin bundle in universe.
Thankyou for the welcome. It's good to be back.
I'm hoping for a Fabfilter Channel Strip. Or a Pitch Correction Plugin for Vocals, like a combination of Melodyne, Autotune and bx_crispytuner but in much higher quality in sound and processing. Or maybe Fabfilter hardware? That would be so cool..and expensive 😂
Edit : I typed this comment before seeing trick 4, which comes close to what I described lol
I "discovered" what is probably PM synthesis using Volcano 3.
Goes like this : pure sine wave (for simplicity let's say it's 100hz) fed into V3. Then, allpass filter (clean style) at exactly 100hz. Then an XLFO to modulate the filter frequency.
XLFO's speed and modulation amounts determine the level of added harmonics.
Add a second XLFO to modulate the first one's frequency (and more if you want), and you get a very complex, harmonically rich signal.
Use multiples of the sine wave's frequency for XLFO speed, and it affects the timbre in a more musical way.
Change filter poles for even more complex sounds. Add different envelopes to modulate the XLFO's modulation amounts.
In Bitwig (and possibly other DAWs) you can create mappings so that the sine wave, the filter and the XLFO frequencies can all be linked to play with MIDI notes (up to a certain point, I believe the XLFOs have an upper limit).
Add different envelopes to modulate the XLFO's modulation amounts -bam, evolving harmonics.
To take it even further, after the first allpass filter modulation creates upper harmonics, add allpass filters to THOSE harmonics and modulate them the same way.
I don't have enough technical knowledge to understand what happens, but it's cool as cucumber
Can’t wait to watch this.
🙌
I could watch hours of dan giving tips
if an official fabfilter makes a tutorial, you know its good
damn i never knew fabfilter was so goated
Saturn 2 is such an intricate plug-in that I don’t see what else they could add to Saturn 3
Always he is best tutor. Appreciate Dan!
video to watch multiple times
I LOVE my L2!!!!!!!!!! Best limiter I’ve ever used.
About the tip n 15) I made an "exponential widening eq" with 2 proq3 in series, following the same principle but with carefully selected "exponential frequencies" (it's surely wrong how I call it but is to give an idea) complementing each other. I can even turn a mono bass into a stereo bass with a very interesting rich sound and "movement" while keeping a perfect mono compatibility. I think this is the best way to make a mono sound stereo without losing anything when you listen in mono, particularly for elements with low end content.
Big ups Dan, to @fabifilter, please give us a pro q option/knob where we can move all of the eq nodes together in your next update. A scale function would also make me a very happy camper. It’s super frustrating that timeless and volcano can do it but not the Eq.
Modulators and dynamic eq control would also be great!
Helpful video. Thank you.
Seriously cool! Can't wait to get my hands on these sometime soon!
Thank you so much, Dan.
How does one FabFilter?
Dan Worrall: Hold my beer
@FabFilter hey guys congrats on 20 years! Just one request: Can you guys add the rest of the Twin 2 factory presets into Twin 3 just like you guys did with the Twin 1 factory presets? Please and Thank you!
this could be 20 different videos, amazing content
Cheers Dan. Mind blown again!
Yess more dan worall
Thanks so kindly!
Thanks, Dan!
THE GOAT IS BACK!!!
Listening to Sir Worrall speaking about phase alignment and filter parameters is like listening to Sir Attenborough at his finest.
Lots of great tips here. Thanks for sharing!
Here's to another 20 years!!
Great stuff, big user and fan of fabfilter ❣
that steep all pass filter tricks are quite neato.
Tip #10 is insane, and with a cool name.
We need a Dan tips & tricks book!!
Petition for releasing Pro - MB 2
Yeah but what should they implement in the MB 2?
Is it not useful enough for you?
@@doingittodeathI’d say different flavors of compression per band like FET, VCA, OPTO, Diode bridge, Vari mu etc
"Why not just use a notch filter?" you might ask.
"Shut up, I'm Dan Worrall" I reply.
I guess somebody never saw the deep dive of Dan Worall on ProQ3. Give it another look! 😊 but he's right- the neutron really is quite something
Thankyou!! Would be amazing to get a download link with presets :D
I met the FF boys on their first frankfurt messe 20 years ago! Or whenever it was. Close to then anywho. I was at a stand opposite and went to have a gander at the filter plugin.
Dan you're a god!
Dan the man
more of this!!!🤯
Thank you for the awesome plugins
i love you dan😊
Thank goodness!
That was a trip!
perfect timing!
Some serious sauce here
Cheers to the true king of nerds: Dan fucking Worrall
Is there anywhere I can listen to the music from this video? I really like it...
Does anyone know if it's possible to delete a band via the keyboard in Pro Q 3? I've searched to no avail, it doesn't seem possible which sucks because I find having to hit those tiny x frustrating after long hours.
27:40 He moves so fast I'm rewinding to see how he is doing this EQ and the settings for each band and the slopes, can someone explain this ? on mine the purple comes after the a and the red dot, ... he doesn't even show how those are set up
Crazy, Im using my plugins on 10% of their power… 8 years in game and still too much to learn. Never ending fun ! ❤
dan ! !
Better than netflix :)
Thanks! Best/Mathias
Adam Neely mentioned!
2mins in & my brain literally exploded 😅
That's great but I have to say I don't feel comfortable with the automatic one knob compression. I need to know at least what exactly it is doing (if controlling it isn't an option) to know when to use it.
Would you say the same about an LA-2A?
@@ralphverdult I do actually know what the LA-2A is doing and I have a prior idea of when to use it.
When will Pro-MB be able to show collisions like ProQ3?
Still waiting for that Side to mid sidechain use case... XD
Jk...
Love using it on pads to expand stereo image 😊
When the Q4?
Does anyone make better GUI’s for their plugins? So elegant, so clear, so powerful. Perfect plugins.
WOW!!!!!!😍