These tutorials by FabFilter and Dan Worrall are so far above the standard of KZread or any other source. These are THE most valuable, enjoyable and informative guides on audio. Bar none.

@st0rmchild

4 жыл бұрын

Totally agree.

@Bittamin

Жыл бұрын

3 years later this stands true

@false-set

Жыл бұрын

Not a bad sales pitch either

For a non-guitarist, the pre / post distortion EQ comparison is just amazing. thx!

insightful. To be honest, it’s the first time I’ve heard someone talk about the intermodulation between certain harmonics that occurs during complex signal clipping. Thanks for laying this out Dan!

@user-ik8vy1rg8f

3 жыл бұрын

Great lessons in music fundamentals.

What a great video ! Gold.

@janakj2251

5 жыл бұрын

I am your big fan...... Just started using these plug-ins.... Interesting to know that these are your favorite plug-ins to....

Really wish Dan Worrall would upload videos on his channel more often

@nickmarkham3743

5 жыл бұрын

He has been lately. We're expecting another in the next couple of weeks. The continuation to his analysis of Reaper's stock compressor plugin.

@controlfreak6429

5 жыл бұрын

@@nickmarkham3743 yeah I'm loving that series. Any idea what he's doing next? I was hoping distortion but now that there's this video I don't know.

@nickmarkham3743

5 жыл бұрын

@@controlfreak6429 No, I don't really know what he's doing next. I know the next video will probably be showing how to use your DAW's routing to achieve a feedback compressor with a sidechain EQ. I was hoping he would do distortion too. Thought he might analyse the transfer functions from different gear, or the effects of circuitry on the frequency response before and after the (probably multiple stages of) nonlinearities. Or reveal little details, like how some saturation plugins have hidden compressors before their nonlinearities; or modulate the nonlinearity itself with an envelope follower. (Preswork, by U-he does this) But since he's doing these beginner's guides here, we may not see anything that in depth. Besides, it would be a huge task.

@controlfreak6429

5 жыл бұрын

@@nickmarkham3743 I'm really starting to think I need to switch to reaper I just know it will be a long road to being as effective as I currently am because of how much you can customize reaper. And yeah I wish he would do some more complex topics. It seems that the audio world has moved more towards new customers/users. Seeing how much success some people have had teaching audio makes me wonder if there are really that many new musicians/engineers constantly coming in. Ive considered making some videos for a long time but never have because I don't want to teach anything. Especially in something that can be so subjective. Yeah distortion is far more complicated than it seems. It's easy to see the transfer function and assume it's just clipping but then you get into multi-band crossover networks, oversampling, and aliasing and realize that with all the progress we've made in audio the analog character so many people are after has remained just outside of our grasp based on the limitations of sampling and modern day computing based on budgets. Interestingly enough adding filtered noise is often far more useful than you'd expect when going for character. Interesting about presswerk though. I only recently tested some u-he stuff and they seem to do things very differently than everyone else. Sometimes I wish I could go back to the days where I didn't feel the need to test aliasing on every plugin before buying it haha. Free plugins were like Christmas back then.

@nickmarkham3743

5 жыл бұрын

@@controlfreak6429 Depends on what you are trying to do. If Dan has taught me anything (and I think he's taught me a lot) its that you can probably squeeze the sounds you want out of whatever you have access to. Don't get me wrong, Reaper is a fantastically customizable piece of software. It has features that make it excellent for so much more than music making; a great audio "workstation" if ever there was one. But, chances are, you're working with musicians and musical material, so really anything that can host VST's will do you fine. And if you look hard enough at your DAW, chances are, it has some variation of the feature you want. And who knows, maybe its coming in a future update. May I ask what it is you'd like to achieve that your DAW doesn't currently offer?

Just brilliant! No surprise when it is FabFilter and Dan Worrall.

You have the best explanation videos. Thank you so much!

Thank you so much for this. Use Saturn all the time and this really helped me understand why I was getting certain results.

Those videos from fabfilter are so valuable. Everything is explained so well to a deeper level too, it's just awesome and super helpful.

Brilliant as always,Dan

Very helpful. It's always great to repeat the basics to get a stronger foundation. Thank you. Great lesson. Fantastic plugin. Cheers

Fabfilter videos rock! some of the best plugin tutorials out there and some of the best plugins out there too.

Amazing explanation. Thank you!

These videos are brilliant!!

Dan is the Mr Kipling of the audio world. He makes exceedingly good tutorials

Excellent video... as always actually. And great plugins.

thanks so much dan, i wish 20years ago me got to watch all this stuff! these vids are so good.

REALLY great video! Thanks!

Fantastic Tutorial!

Thank you for this tutorial!

wow this is a very awesome plugin

Wow, I’ve seriously overlooked Saturn. Now I’ve got GAS again :( Excellent video as always, Dan. Cheers mate.

Everyone's a beginner if compared to Mr. Worrall

As a hardcore addict I love how distortion easily enables something simple to span half the spectrum and interact with filters and added signals to make something completely insane that no physical object could ever make. What this video really lacked imo is a showcase of the raw signals in an oscilloscope plugin as well as showing a waveshaper. You can easily see then how multiple bands of frequencies interact together and how a sub takes over when played over other instruments even when they're at similar volume. I also saw some tutorials that explained how an asymmetric distortion shape that reacts differently to the positive and negative parts of the signal adds even harmonics and might be better if you don't want it to sound like a square wave every time you turn it way up.

Great Video, and better plug-ins.

Your voice is amazing

Dan’s back

Looking forward to the next in this distortion series. How distortion effects dynamics is something I've only understood in the last couple of years. Hope you talk about bias (a lack of symmetry in the shaping function graph) and how that effects whether the distortion produces odd vs odd/even harmonics. A bias control that introduces even order harmonics (with the odd ofc) will actually diminish the amount of sustain in the distorted signal. Not good if you're trying to use soft clipping to maximize the volume of your mix. I've never talked to anyone who understood that. I talk about that phenomenon in one of my vids if you want me to dig up a link. Thanks for the vid, Dan :)

@BIG_PASTA

3 жыл бұрын

Would you mind posting that link if it's not too much trouble? Looking to learn the intricacies a bit better, thanks :)

@CharlesFerraro

3 жыл бұрын

@@BIG_PASTA Here it is. I feel like I might have a better video on it somewhere. I can always do another overview too if something is unclear. kzread.info/dash/bejne/h558k8qTe9O8c6w.html

@BIG_PASTA

3 жыл бұрын

@@CharlesFerraro Thanks so much, that was super quick!

@CharlesFerraro

3 жыл бұрын

@@BIG_PASTA well 38 minutes 😛 but yah I get notifications sent to my phone so I can usually respond pretty fast.

Great content as ever! Well done Dan and Fabfilter. 👍 Incidentally that track had a bit of a ‘Tunes From The Missing Channel’ vibe about it, maybe someone’s an On-U fan?

Phew! Lot to think about! :)

Very interesting

Another amazingly interesting video. Coming more from a visual background and looking at the issue of aliasing, especially viewing the spectrogram display, I have a question. It seems to me that instead of calculating frequencies, certain effects might be calculated with visual methods, such as vector calculations, voxels etc. Many years ago I wondered the same when removing electronic hum from a recording. I didn't have a silent section to use as a noise-stamp and all automated methods I tried failed. I ended up using a spectrogram view, where the hum was a nice straight line. I just selected it with a long tight box, and turned the level way down. Rest of the audio was unaffected and the hum gone. Can you tell me as a sound engineer, whether graphical methods are used in Audio, if yes, where? I would find that most interesting. Sincerely, a new fan :)

Intended aliasing on the bass blew my mind

Hope Saturn Pro is coming !!

...even the comments on dan's vids are better than nearly everything else on youtube.

Awesome! great!

Dan Worrall sounds like a narrator for nature documentaries!

Nice sir....

Hey! Is that track used in tutorial released somewhere? I'd love to listen to it!

nixe video thank you

@5:34 that's the "Whole Lotta Love" unpleasant distortion when the the drums came on after the psychedelic quiet part

The part at 8:44 to 9:15 is that similar to the way those old casio cz synthesizers worked, its was like fm but instead of modulating sine waves with carriers to create harmonics, did they use distortion, i believe they called it phase distortions synthesis, i am not sure

Just one question...where can I listen to the music in the video though??

Beginners? This is useful for 30+ year veterans.

Fabfilter few plugins > tons of waves plugins 👍👍👍

Fabfilter: lets make all plugins eq’s and comps :)) please, take my money !

The question that comes to mind now is: how do you play it live while trying to achieve that sound?

@jackfalcon5352

3 жыл бұрын

Run a distortion pedal on the insert of the drum buss at the mixer :)

@colaboytje

3 жыл бұрын

@@jackfalcon5352 lol. Thanks for the laugh.

Situation expands frequency spectrum

Получается, что в цифре сатурация задается частотой, а в аналоге уровнем сигнала?

EQ first then Distort right?

@xathomir

4 жыл бұрын

eq out frequencies that you don't want to be enhanced by distortion and after distortion eq again to take out newly introduced harmful frequencies. At least that's what I do to make a cleaner mix

Woho!

How is this free? Blessed

Every time I see one of these tutorials I say to myself, how much could it be to distortion that I don't already knows... and every time I'm oh so very wrong.

i know that break, bonzo!

Clever movement by fabfilter. Know ur tools

Damn it, was expecting Saturn 2 or an interface update :(

@ThomasHope73

4 жыл бұрын

Ahhh but... if it ain’t broken! 😉

Soberbio!

Dan Worral always delivering. Great tutoríal, but the music was hilarious. Served the purpose though.

looks like the distorted jazzy chord is becoming more prevalent with the modern metal fellows so there is that.

Can anyone provide a quick summary of what they got out of this video? My main takeaway is distortion works best on simple non complex sounds because you can drive it harder and you must be subtle with complex signals. How about you?

"Engineers have invented other terms for good sounding distortion, such as 'saturation' or just 'color'" haha, true.

Pls don't put music to the intro part of the video,because its really annoying to read the subtitle, understanding what you say and hear the music at the same time.

I was with you until you claimed that a complex chord with distortion doesn’t sound good. Have you ever listened to progressive metal? There’s a lot of distortion, and a lot of complex chordage. it’s a great texture, not cluttered or messy at all.

@mfkrwill

2 жыл бұрын

think he meant in this specific context. as the distortion being used with the chord selected didnt seem to mesh well.

@whatskraken3886

2 жыл бұрын

@@mfkrwill if you listen back, that’s clearly not what he meant

@Warlequin

7 ай бұрын

Yes he touches the fully subjective topic called: 'preferences in sound'. Which is unique to every person. But what I think is generally true is that when too much is going on the sound gets 'complex' to your brain. Or to general, commercial listeners. The chord + distortion is more complex to listen to than the first general single note. @@whatskraken3886

All you need to know is everything should get turned up to 11. Done. No need for a 14minute video.

1st

As a guitarist, I got nothing out of this video. Too much theoretical mumbo jumbo.

@Warlequin

7 ай бұрын

It is all related to producers / mixing and mastering engineers who use DAW's. So not to guitarists, generally.

How is this free? Blessed