Let’s see you have put a Pro-Q 3 on your bassline.
If your kick has a Pro-Q 3 on its channel, you can then display the kick frequency spectrum in your bassline EQ! And not only that, Pro-Q 3 will show you overlapping frequencies respectively problematic areas like in the picture above. It is a bit of a simplified dynamic processing as there is no attack or release. It anyway works pretty well and does the job in 99.9% of the cases. It can be very useful to get rid of a resonance that only appears in certain parts of a sound. You can remove the resonance when it appears without compromising on the rest of sound when the resonance is not audible. Instead of using the source material for your threshold in the dynamic EQ setting, you can also set up an external sidechain source. This is amazing! Especially when you know that there is a problematic area (see point 4). Let’s go back to the kick and bassline example. If you know that your kick and your bassline have an issue at around 54 Hz, you can just side chain the bassline at 54 Hz with your kick. So whenever your kick is playing, the bassline will be ducked at 54 Hz and only there! 7. Mid/Side Processing per BandĮach band can have its own stereo placement (left, right, stereo, mid and side). Usually you have the choice between stereo mode or mid/side mode in your plugins. And those modes usually are global and not per band. This is great if you want to widen specific areas in your sound for example. Then you can just EQ the sound a little bit differently left and right. The guy who had this idea must have been a genius. When you boost or cut a frequency, the loudness of your sound changes. When you are boosting a certain frequency you can easily think that it sounds better as the overall sound becomes louder. And if you cut a certain frequency you can think that the sound sounds worse as its a bit lower in volume, but maybe that is not the case.Īuto gain solves that exact issue. It automatically adjusts the volume according to the boost or cut that you applied. It’s that simple A button in the bottom right corner of the EQ.