#FABFILTER PRO Q 3 EQ UPDATE#

If I have unwanted harshness, sibilance, boxiness, muddiness, whatever, I can find those frequencies really easy with the visual feedback the plugin provides me, and remove them. I find that the FabFilter Pro-Q 2 and now the Pro-Q 3 are unmatched in that utility. So as you can see and hear, IвЂ™m doing mostly subtractive EQ here. Here, I use the dynamic EQ again, but itвЂ™s only processing the middle where the vocals live, to get rid of some harsh, unwanted vocal sibilance.ДЄnd lastly, I wanted to open up the sides a little bit using a traditional EQ to really allow us to hear those hi-hats a little clearer, and there were some cool vocal effects that I think were being buried that I wanted to enhance, so IвЂ™m doing a high shelf up there. Next, I used the dynamic EQ again, but only in the sides, and that was for the purpose of carving out a little bit of two and 2.8kHz in those wide panned guitars. Next, I found there to be an unwanted resonance at about 120, so just stereo traditional EQ, notched that out a little bit. I did this because I wanted the kick drum, which is straight up the middle, to dominate that area of the frequency spectrum. Next, I enlisted the dynamic EQ only in the sides at about 60. First, I did a high pass filter, but only to the sides, because I thought there was some unwanted mud that wasnвЂ™t adding anything to the program material, just in the sides. So now let me show you what I did and describe why. The song is really well produced, but there are some problem frequencies and areas where I think that I could enhance what was there.

So letвЂ™s start by listening to about 45 seconds to a minute of this track. Obviously, heвЂ™s got an incredible voice, beautiful tone, great singer. ItвЂ™s called вЂњShirtвЂќ from the band Plake, featuring Hunter Plake, who was on NBCвЂ™s The Voice. The song that IвЂ™m going to be using was just released. So today, IвЂ™m going to show you how I would use the Pro-Q 3 when mastering a track. Because of this, IвЂ™ve found the Pro-Q 3 to be an excellent tool for when mastering. So what was already a great plugin is even more flexible. The Pro-Q 3 has all of that and even more, including an extremely useful dynamic EQ function, and now, per band, you can choose to apply processing in mid/side mode, which essentially allows you to process the center separate from the sides, you can work in traditional stereo, left, or right.

ItвЂ™s great for cleaning up problem frequencies, it has a mostly transparent sound, tons of great features, and a beautiful user interface that provides you a lot of useful information. The Pro-Q 2 is something that I use on each and every mix of mine.

#FABFILTER PRO Q 3 EQ UPDATE#

Hey there, Ian Vargo here from The Pro Audio Files and .ДЇabFilter just released the Pro-Q 3, which is an update to their flagship equalizer plugin.

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