How To Use Gullfoss

Production Expert's Julian Rodgers demonstrates how to use Gullfoss, the intelligent dynamic EQ from Soundtheory.

[@Newerasamearea]

The best tutorial I've seen on this by some margin.

[@diegooliveirabenjamin]

Huge amount of videos on this plugin, but this was the one to watch

[@dustbunnys]

I AM BLOWN AWAY. I feel like I'm cheating, it works so well!

[@rickymolina7390]

Ditto. This is the best review of this plugin by far. Probably also because the music doesn't suck. Thank you so much.

[@bassinotreblinskyestudiosu1031]

Amazing video, very instructive, to the point, no nonsense talking... thank you!

[@AllanGildea]

Enjoyed this, thanks - I'm still learning to tune my ears to what sound to me to be subtle changes - so your expertise is greatly valued. Great voice over as well, by the way.

[@ToddBeal]

I just finished a mix with Gullfoss that I could not previously perfect. Thanks to this video demonstration, I downloaded the demo and the rest is history. This is an incredible plugin that is very difficult to explain. Quite simply, it is the special sauce that allows the classical grand piano to magically reveal its gentle nuances and yet simultaneously explode with all its power. Use this plugin first to even out the frequency response (construct the foundation first), then add other plugins to develop the mix. Between Fabfilter dynamics plugins (Pro-L2, Pro-MB, Pro-C2, Pro-Q3), Gullfoss, and Maag Audio EQ2 boosted at 40kHz (unbelievable), I just finished the powerfully dynamic classical piano mix I have been chasing my entire adult life. Kudos to all three companies. The best!

[@LightersInc]

would love to hear the sound of this, please post a video

[@kyju7093]

40k?! What’s the reasoning behind that? Can the human ear even hear that? Is it just for color/texture purposes than practical? Would be interested in hearing it too 🤔

[@marLamaDeo]

@@kyju7093 It also boosts below that if you raise it at 40k it’s not narrow Q

[@killwithvolume]

Brilliant! At last Gullfoss demystified top marks I've subbed!

[@harikiranmenon]

Really good explanation. Thank you for this video.

[@That1Guy]

excellently explained! i bought it this year for black friday, now i get how to use it! thank you!!

[@k0d4m4]

saaame

[@VerdeeMusic]

Perfect. Thanks so much for the tips!

[@kitgroovemachine]

Thanks for putting this together. For my live stuff I tend mix a lot of live instruments in a looper before going out to the DAW. This plugin helps the sound, imo.

[@artemi-music]

thanks for the demo!

[@DatAnydeks]

Good job. That sax was definitely smoothed out. I have Gulfoss, and this was a very good demo, thanks. EQ2 by Sonible is also worth a look.

[@brosa1212]

Very helpful overview

[@schtuff.8207]

what a wonderful radio voice you have, needs no gullfoss thats for sure

[@Ps11183]

By far, this is the best instructor and tutorial I ever seen on KZbin on plugins, mature voice like a movie star of classics, I know he is not only instructor on this channel, but this is the first time I heard this voice, it is a shame, more good work pls, there is many bullshit, showoff and empty talk in this category, you have none of that. I can enjoy this voice pretty much anywhere.

[@biggbrah]

Great tutorial!

[@NoProblem608]

Amazing plug in

[@AayushSingh]

Thanks to you, sir.

[@AvidFire]

Great vid! Thnx

[@dafingaz]

Incredible!

[@kdcyp]

This isn’t a cheap plug-in and I was recommended it as it has few controls which is great for inexperienced mixers like me however the manual just confused the hell out of me so I haven’t used it yet, but after this video I feel I have direction now so thank you! 🙏

[@loopyctv]

In case the author of this video is still monitoring comments, I came here in hopes of tracking down the main ‘culprit’ in what I would describe as 1) ‘pumping’ when extreme lows (bass drum, etc), and a high frequency (high string synth note, background noise), and 2) a ‘digital hiss’ that follows instruments (again, picking up reverb tails or background noises/hiss and then ‘following’ other instruments, basically creating a new dynamic sound/part in the mix! The ranges I am using are similar to what you demonstrated in your video, NEVER more than 100 for ‘Recover’/Tame’, or -55 for ‘Bright’…but it seems once I get the frequency balance of full mixes right, I am hearing this ‘digital noise’ following instruments in the upper range, and pumping if a extreme low/high combination happens in arrangement? I have played with the settings a lot, and it seems ‘Recover’ over 25, and ‘Bright’ down more than 29% are primary causes. Just wondering if you have also heard these artifacts working on a mix with Gullfoss, and have any tips to deal with them? Right now, I was attempting to ‘un-master’ some extremely bright/thin re-mastered CD’s of 1970’s ‘Krautrock’ genre…I can get them PERFECT as to the tonal balance, but then my ears pick-up on these artifacts/pumping mentioned above. Love to get some experiences of others and possible solutions (other than, ‘Then don’t try to do that!, haha). Obviously, I can just back down, but then I lose what I can/have achieved, which is the de-harshing of these HORRIBLE re-masters. Thanks in advance

[@rturner2095]

Slick plugin! Hearing this on Herbie Hancock's 'Maiden Voyage!' Nice choice of music!

[@NearSilent]

Nice to the point video! Just watched it before trying their trial version and it does make a pleasant difference! Question: Other than the GUI and approach, how does this differ to say Intensity by Zynaptiq? That also opens up the sounds and different levels/frequencies and is very versatile with a lot of presets? Just wondering. thanks. They're both tools of wizards, basically!

[@amaurygil6504]

Thank you

[@treeoflifeguitars]

Thanks for sharing this. Do you put this on the final mix bus insert? Thanks

[@realraven2000]

Are there no corner frequencies for tame? Ah sorry i asked at 5:00 and you explained afterwards. I would say i would put corners on tame but not on recover in this example.

[@heartland3887]

very nice voice

[@Mr.Nobody-420]

How does this compare to the Sculpture module in Neutron 3? Are they basically the same thing? Does this plugin makes sense to get if I have Neutron 3?

[@lulinavone]

well that's a huge difference!

[@leemendez7876]

Would you put Soothe 2 before this or after?

[@nelsonpares4173]

were does it goes... do i put it first on top.. or the last plugin ??? i have studio one with KrK Rokit 6 speakers.. and i still cant hear any Difference when i bypass

[@jmsdeco]

It's a great plugin

[@jameswood1557]

i got it for free from vstoriginal.com/soundtheory-gullfoss-latest-version-vst-crack/ but this video really helped.

[@agesonjohanesburg2915]

where on insert chain should this be positioned? master busses/ mastering or all tracks etc? Thx!

[@torram28]

A bit late but, you could add it where ever you want but I would think that on the master is the most common, but a group bus could work too.

[@thomaslarsson8861]

niiice!

[@periurban]

I don't get it. I tried Gullfoss Master on some recent tracks, and whilst it did make a dramatic difference to the sound I couldn't honestly say it was better, although for a couple of hours I was convinced it was! Then I listened closer and what I could hear was a kind of dislocation between many of the elements I had carefully, painstakingly assembled. It didn't strike me as being particularly musical, since it managed to destroy a few of the relationships that I thought were quite important.

[@THEOJOFilms]

Can anyone tell me if Gulfus is good for dialog only recording like podcasts and film???? Its really hard learning audio and audio plugins for non music creation situations. Thanks!

[@DavidKfilmmaker]

Try sa2 by mcdsp. It’s for dialogue

[@GeneAkimoff]

What's this tune called? This jazz ballad sounds familiar but I can't tell exactly what it is.

[@domshov]

Maiden Voyage - the original by Herbie Hancock

[@TheWimmse]

Sometimes I hear the difference clearly and sometimes not a bit (even with parameters on max). Could it be that Gulfoss sometimes just randomly stops working until restart or something? :/

[@mikejaputz5570]

same

[@PromoMIAR]

Totally. I heard of subtle but many cases, non existent. Was actually questioning if the plugin had a bug or that I was loosing my hearing and getting older. Some of the youtube Demos are more noticeable to me then trying it myself. What gives?

[@ruthlesscutthroat4030]

in a lot of these videos the narrating voice is always louder than the exhibited audio, i can't turn up to hear the audio.

[@50bandzent40]

Where's Dan

[@DaveFore_AudioEngineering]

Level matching would be helpful in making comparisons so you're affected less from confirmation bias.

[@colinowenuk]

A link would have been nice...

[@adl0815]

The Gullfoss Plugin can be found here: www.soundtheory.com/home

[@johnnytucats]

I've tried this plugin. Even with low "recover" and "tame" numbers I end up thinking, "If I had wanted it to sound like this I would have mixed it that way."

[@ShaiFishman]

GULLFOSS with 2 L's :)

[@stormshadow2k]

Would be a lot easier to hear what it does if someone wasnt talking over it constantly.

[@michaelmedina4287]

I am a bit baffled here…… Your channel is called Production Expert, and yet, within the first couple of sentences, the moderator says that he's a bit confused and has given up ????

[@mookmusik]

Incredible plug-in, but, isn't it taking away the ability of someone to learn the skills of a true sound engineer without understanding what they are really doing?

[@alsoulmusic]

Yes it can do that but it can also instruct as well. If someone wants to learn they can use this tool and then try to figure out how to do the same thing with traditional tools. Like anything else it is up to the user to decide if they want to use it or not.

[@Zarabozo]

Isn't any technology doing that?

[@MilezAwxy]

Well the purpose of it is adaptive eqing, it listens to audio and adjust gain respectively. Even the best engineers can't achieve what this plugin does with regular eq's, unless they automate every parameter when there's a sudden spike/dip in frequency, which is either super time consuming or nearly impossible.

[@anaymark]

When you're playing a comparison of the plugin and the bypassed sound, you talk constantly over it. Even just 5 seconds straight without your voice would let us actually assess this plug, which I assume is the point of this video. Also, lower your voice in the mix; I have to crank the music so I can really hear the subtleties, then you talk and it's super loud, overcompressed and annoying; so I'm constantly pulling the volume on my rig way up and way down. Otherwise, good job.

[@user-kv6xi9pl4p]

the best plugin to kill musicality in sound. Maybe useful for those making music for i-phones

[@user-kv6xi9pl4p]

@Sash Campbell no, no way, just what this demo shows. Transients and natural resonances are the most important "ingredients" of musicality and naturalness. If we start fighting them we make music lifeless and dull. This video demonstrates it. I couldn't recognize saxophone after passing it through the plugin. It's the same as dynamic compression. If you like the processed sound you might have never been to a life concert in a perfect acoustic environment, or you are not a musician. The most precious recordings on the planet were made without using EQ completely. Think about it. And listen to this demo again attentively. If you fail to get it, listen again, listen in a perfect studio on a good set of monitors (no headphones!), but after all you'll see.

[@user-kv6xi9pl4p]

@Sash Campbell you captured the Golden Rule, Man: if you don't like something, step back to correct it and go on. Don't seek for "magical" or "intelligent" plugins that do your job for you. That's for kids, ha ha. The best magic is in your spontanous reaction to it. Listen to it and try to hear it. If it doesn't give you goosebumps at the beginning no plugin would do.

[@spacecash9721]

I love this plug in. In this demonstration, I can't hear hardly any difference. It's so irrelevant. Use a more relevant musical example next time. Your ears are not as trained as you think.

[@AayushSingh]

Thanks to you, sir.