Parallel Bandpass Filters

[@milaberdenisvanberlekom4615]

All the incredible producer and mixing content aside, you are incredibly good at making educational content. Rarely see someone so consistently explain things in such a clear, in-depth yet practical fashion.

[@anteshell]

This! Instead of this: "Do X and it sounds good" and then showing a sample, ..he is more like this: "You can do this and it sounds like that(with sample playing in the background). Here is why it sounds like that, and here's some other things how you can tweak it. And while I'm at it, here's yet couple of more distinct scenarios where this technique is useful." I love especially his "why" and "this too..." explanations. And as a free bonus, all that is presented in very coherent and concise manner with no fluff or useless fillers.

[@31chh0rn]

And all this while still staying concise so it does not feel like you are wasting time with a lot of overhead information.

[@m.i.stapes]

Yes I’m dreaming and wishing of a full Dan Worall mixing or even full audio engineering course one day!

[@br8kl3gnd67]

Go clean ya nose mate

[@anteshell]

@@br8kl3gnd67 stop being such a waste of oxygen and learn to appreciate things and possibly even express your appreciation to others.

[@hefal6661]

Jesus. I'm mixing for +20 years professionally and I'm usually annoyed by "youtube mixing techniques" videos. This video proves that there is ALWASY something that can blow your mind, even if you thought you knew everything, that after blowing your mind is something you WILL use soon in a mixing session. Keep it going!

[@reziahamed6654]

Cant Agree more..🤓👍👍

[@ts4gv]

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[@MichaelDowComposer]

@@ts4gv ALWASY!

[@hefal6661]

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[@claytonreardon42069]

Dan Worral is great at having that effect

[@LaymensLament]

I just realized this might be the last KZbin channel which doesn't uses clickbait titles. I mean yes, there is some of that on the picture, I guess you can't fully break the rules but I still appreciate it. This is gonna be the fourth channel I put notifications on for. All the videos are interesting, concise and fun

[@Nejc399]

"But I'm gonna keep that secret for now, it's way too powerful and important technique, and I'm gonna save it till I can do it justice" 1 year later... Oh, you just basically boost the fundamental frequency It drives me nuts to know how simple yet effective this technique is

[@wolfgangdevries127]

At some point it seemed obvious to me, I'm just a simple guy. The downside of it is that frequencies more tend to clash with each other.

[@arsenije_wav8620]

Yeah, but the knowledge is boosting it INDEPENDENTLY of the rest of the drum's frequency response. You'd be surprised at how many people don't think of this stuff, even producers familiar with parallel processing and bus tracks

[@Intermernet]

I'm in a weird position that I understand the maths and theory of all of these tricks, but don't have the professional experience to know when to use them. Thanks Dan for actually demonstrating this stuff. My arsenal of mix techniques grows with every video you release, and my actual grokking of the theory expands at the same rate.

[@tonal.states]

Yesterday I discovered that you can duplicate a dialogue track, invert the polarity on one and add EQ notches to it so only the voice frequencies peak through and the ambience noise or hiss cancels out. Surely an already known technique but as a self taught noob, I was kind of blown away by how well it can work to isolate stuff haha

[@GuilleSMasini]

you have software like iZotope Rx that does exactly that for you with extra steps and a pretty smart algorithm. kinda expensive but worth it, you can clean shit you wouldn't even bother trying, feels like your in the fbi or the CIA

[@reziahamed6654]

Hi.. Thanks a ton for this.. I'm good until the nulling of 2 tracks.. Could you pls elaborate the rest...I'd love to try your trick n see for myself.. Thanks again pal 👍👍🤓

[@tonal.states]

@@GuilleSMasini Yeah, I've used Rx and it's a must have gem, I just didn't have it on that computer so I tried that with the filters and yeah, I actually thought "yeah that must be how Rx does it" 🤔 its ana wesome piece of software, kind of expensive yeah, but worth it.

[@tonal.states]

@@reziahamed6654 Ok, let me try from the start. So you have your original dialogue in one track, right? So you make a copy of it on another track, then you flip the phase on the copy. After that add an EQ to the copy and carve out (subtract) the frequencies from the voice, this will cause the null to only happen in the hiss or frecuencies that you didn't change, leaving the original voice intact. Level the tracks to taste after that. Hope it helps!

[@reziahamed6654]

@@tonal.states Hiii .. Thanks a ton for taking time to reply... I'd certainly try this out n let you know... I know the nulling effect but have never used it in such a remediate way.. Thanks heaps again mate 🎉🎉🤓

[@dustism]

I can't believe you consistently give us this sauce for free. You're a treasure of the audio world.

[@jondoe4160]

So much great information in these videos. For a fun idea, take the fundamental snare and sidechain the crashes and hats back 6db with a little hold time, that fools your ears that the snare was louder and the returning jump up of the crashes and hats gives further movement.

[@E_-_-]

I love how it went from improving a snare sound to a "wow wow" kick drum and "just synthesize your own fundamental"

[@letsallbe-friends1120]

*Dan's tutorials always make me feel like I've been privvy to the audio secrets of the Illuminati....mind blown!* 🤯

[@danjohnsonstudio]

Marvellous. I watched this ran upstairs and finally got the snare sound in my head on a track I’ve struggled to nail. Eureka. Thanks. Unlike most YT nonsense genuinely useful.

[@D-One]

That fundamental parallel trick sounds amazing, it's really rare I learn something new on "phat drums" videos, Dan always teaching me something new! ❤

[@1loveMusic2003]

Just got referred to your channel by White Sea Studio and man your smart and knowledgeable great video

[@4hodmt]

Really cool technique. An analog 808 kick is also a ringing filter, so it makes sense that this works.

[@exitthelemming145]

I've never seen anyone illustrate this idea before (i.e. parallel filtering) Truly innovative and it sounds great. Kudos to Mr W who is invariably one step ahead of the naysayers in our midst

[@jameshyatt]

You can load Waves plugins into Plugin Doctor actually! You just have to load Waves Studio Rack, then use Waves plugins within there

[@eikegermann7469]

Ah, I was wondering if a different way of doing it would have been “fooling” the shell by using metaplugin. Glad to hear it works after all :)

[@AmoresAJ]

I do exactly this on snare using Volcano 3 and applying an envelope to the peak instead of a separate gate. The saturation it adds is just perfect.

[@SpiralJucifer]

One of the more useful and powerful techniques for drums in particular, and I've just now learned it. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom. I'm digging into this one today.

[@ovonisamja8024]

I’m on my cell pone, but I’m a simple man. I see a Dan Worall video is up and I click watch regardless of what I’m watching it on. I knew the trick already, but it’s always fun learning couple of additional tips on the subject. Gating for instance. I’ve always gated the combined signals. Might as well try separating them.

[@linkVIII]

I got interrupted watching this. So a few days later I find it again by just typing 'dan' into the search bar and it was right there. I hope this shows in your analytics.

[@Nathe85]

I got a fair amount of experience being a hobbyist my entire life, never actually working in the industry but, you're content educating audio engineering is by far the best on youtube.

[@mirrorengine]

Hey Dan, love your work! best audio engineering content on youtube in my opinion... i would absolutely love a room correction eq or headphone calibration software analysis video by you, since this topic is so clouded and lots of myths surrounding it on the internet. Thank you so much for your brilliant work!

[@tomik6537]

you are in luck

[@krisztianfugedi5910]

As an aspiring producer, I was too afraid to implement more advanced mixing techniques like this one, with the idea being that I should be able to get where I want with more conservative methods. I've been struggling to get this kind of punch on my snare for a long time, I tried the good old EQ, Transient Designers, Compression, and I just couldn't get where I wanted. This method however instantly gave me the desired results, and I cannot thank you enough! Edit: I also experimented with getting more ring in on the Snare with a bandpass at 500 and an inverted gate to get rid of the initial transient, sizzled with some extra saturation. This trick is amazing.

[@TheDoomerBlox]

Do not be afraid of the roundabout, complicated solution to a problem. As long as you try to understand what it is, that makes it end up solving the problem, you will (usually) inevitably end up with a simpler and more consistent way of solving it later. The joy of fiddling, wee!

[@TheSavage1969]

One of my only channel memberships truly worth it's weight consistently. Thanks again for all you do DW, sincerely.

[@ryanhinrichsen4417]

This is the best channel for mixing tips ive found in years.

[@ClemBennett]

I just tried this on today's snare and I AM NEVER NOT DOING THIS EVER AGAIN. Thank you.

[@jakobole]

Thanks Dan! I used this technique on a big pad I couldn't get to "sit", only with a broader Q. Works!

[@theanotherosc]

The 808-style ringing trick was real cool and I'm really excited to try it out along with the other "toning" tricks. Thanks for this Dan! ^^

[@unclemick-synths]

13:00 this is a great way to demonstrate the pre-ringing effect of linear mode. Great video BTW 👍

[@leaveitorsinkit242]

Pre-ringing artifacts tend to be very minimal. I use a speaker calibration EQ which runs on linear phase mode and I've never had any problems with pre-ringing...

[@nj1255]

I was thinking the exact same thing. Even though I know exactly what it is and why it happens, I have never seen an example that makes the pre/after-ringing so audible.

[@unclemick-synths]

@@leaveitorsinkit242 that's why it's a great demonstration - usually it's inaudible or at most a bit of an indefinable smudginess.

[@rpgaleksy]

I tried this trick the other day on a kick that I made with my mouth (looking for fitting drum samples takes too much time in my opinion so I just beatbox a couple of percussion elements in until I'm happy to continue working). Getting close to the microphone didn't increase the amount of bassy thump enough, so I turned to a parallel bandpass like the one you used to imitate the sub-kick microphone effect. Worked like a charm and gave a fat, adjustable kickdrum in no time!

[@abirdie8530]

Discovered parallel bandpass filtering a year ago. Literally a game changer for me.

[@FretboardToAsh]

This visual is an improvement over the black background with the logo.

[@profquad]

I like this method a lot! I do something similar with an analogue mixer. Say, for the kick, I send it to a channel that also gets sent back to itself, with the low frequency boosted. It also passes through a gate that's triggered by the kick mic. This way, I can tune a low boom sound based on the kick. Throwing the bass through that channel is a nice effect as well. Or a bit of low frequency phaser.

[@croay]

Plugin Doctor is no more only a host application, its a plugin since the recente release of the version 2

[@AnimusInvidious]

Still can't use it to scan native daw plugins tho.

[@ulfrohdin]

This tip is gold. It has really elevated my demotracks to a new level. Thanks Mr. Worral!

[@Rhekluse]

Thank you for nerding-out as much as you do in order to share this type of original content. I am especially am looking forward to those videos explaining how you create new drum fundamentals & tune drums. I am sure you have a badass way to tune drums without pitching & degrading the signal.

[@annekedebruyn7797]

I want to say that I love the new animations when you talk with your logo. It's really relaxing on the eye compared to the other ones while still being entertaining to watch!

[@wazzpqazzza]

Nice to see Arturia's compressors being used in videos like this. Criminally underrated plugins.

[@tusharjamwal]

why are they underrated?

[@wazzpqazzza]

@@tusharjamwal They're great and people seem to think that they're not all they're cracked up to be when I really reckon they are, their compressors specifically are great and their reverb units as well.

[@Hilde_mann]

For want of something intelligent to say about the techniques shown, I just wanted to say that I think you've nailed the visualiser now. It looks fantastic in combination with the new background.

[@YuriKovalyov]

Dan, thanks for this 5:24. I feel your support as I learn mixing poorly recorded sounds that I recorded myself back then, unfortunately not everything can be rerecorded. Thank you.

[@Gilwtt]

During this week I've discover your channel (Thx to white sea) and actually have to say that's "one" ( wit Paul Third') of the most pedagogic and tricky soundIsh function I never learned before... Game changer.. Thanks a Lot for your time and quality of your tutorial

[@EdThorne]

Great tutorial, thank you! Big up Bobby Arechiga too, I had a few lessons with him when I was a teenager, great player!

[@cl_audio_90]

I hope you know the value of everything you give to us sharing all these amazing information very well explained. Thank you so much!

[@jeffking4604]

Gotta say, this video changed my life. Toms have always been a problem for me, and this parallel bandpass idea is perfect for them. The control that it gives you and the resulting punch is just sick. Mr. Worrell, you've done a great service to us - once again.

[@joost3783]

wow I mean I did narrow boosts before to achieve this but the way you've did it just makes more sense

[@Spacecat2]

Just used this technique to phatten up a thin-sounding tom sample. Thanks, Dan!

[@ether_sect]

That snare sounds amazing. ❤

[@kylepetersen6520]

I'm so happy I know your channel every time I watch a video I always learn something cool that I wanna try out

[@herzbub]

This is one of the best tricks I've learned for quite a while, simple and so effective - thanks for that, Dan!

[@deepshche]

i mean for almost a decade I hit like button first of all because of your voice)))

[@xSaintxSmithx]

Unbelievably useful technique you got here, Dan. Your channel really is a godsend for self taught producers.

[@whatbee]

That foldback ringing at 12:53 was insane. Think I'll steal the idea haha

[@alejandromagana1554]

Jaw dropping tutorial ❤️😸 love these nerdy videos, since this is a technique I’d never thought it would totally work to save a poorly recorded mix.

[@SetoNess]

Amazing video and explanation. Can't wait for the next video showing other tricks! I have used bandpass in parallel and invert phase to control dynamics from vocals but it never occur to me to use it to mix drums. Thank you for sharing!

[@herenazano2132]

wow start using it right away ....blown away thanks brother

[@fromaggio7654]

I like to use parallel band pass filters when setting the bass fundamental for a bass guitar

[@panorama_mastering]

Happy I stayed and watched until the end! Great job!

[@artysanmobile]

I began using the U47fet on bass drum in the late 70s just on a whim, and was stunned by the extra octave or more below any other mic I’d ever used. No room in the mix for it in pop but the jazz guys went wild for it.

[@danielburns4483]

this is amazing stuff. i would have never thought of doing things this way.

[@krobo]

This is unreal, I have two projects that are crying out for me to experiment this trick on! thanks

[@stereopsis]

I might be unique, but I do indeed want phat drums and good mixes. Thanks for the video!

[@dmsorensen]

You always manage to present something cool that I've never seen anywhere else! Nice work! I'm going to play with this on my next mix!

[@MetiCudi]

this is by far the best video out there, i didnt even have time to finish the video before i wanted to try this out and its just the best thing ever in my life

[@whatskraken3886]

I just realized why the curves at 2:59 looked so interesting to me. If you take the derivative of the curve produced by a bell filter, you get its phase response. If you the second derivative, you get that shape. steep boost in the middle with smaller cuts to either side. I'm not smart enough to understand why that is, but it's something I noticed.

[@eddiekimura]

such a legend Dan, if you could share this default theme edit would love that. Take care hope you feel better soon and thank you for all your help

[@kirkegodfrey414]

Always a delightful learning experience 🎛😵‍💫😃‼️‼️‼️‼️

[@SpiralJucifer]

It may take awhile before I learn to not go overboard with this technique on drums. This will help me quite a bit. Thanks!

[@raycochrane3971]

Excellent. Though I'm not a fan of kick click and the overall blend seemed to enhance that the lesson and solutions are terrific, thanks.

[@markandrewpiano]

Thanks so much for your mixing videos here and on the fabfilter channel. They're very informative and have helped me solve some issues in my mixes.

[@emmetkowler]

Soundtoys FilterFreak is a great plugin for doing this technique as an insert

[@dinmentor]

Holy sh*t.... This is it.... Ive been pulling my hair for some time trying to get THAT smack and separation.... And its a parallel bandpass! 😅 Thanks Dan! 🙌🏻

[@cornerliston]

Very nice. It seems as boosting with a bell curve the pre-ring (is it pre-ring, or post ring rather?) occurs much sooner than parallell bandpass? Although the ringing does have a function as well. Is the ringing similar to the filter self oscillating? Should work well also on the kick beater but negative values : )

[@tiagogrcia]

i never regret watching your videos, amazing trick

[@DanielBaeder]

Dan, I'm a drummer/producer here in Tokyo, I just want to let you know you've changed my life with this trick! My drums came to life.Thank you so much! How about that "silk" high ends on overheads, is there any trick to that as well, I'm wondering.

[@cianbrady1557]

You could try multi band compression, with a long attack or something

[@zbyszekolko3998]

Try silky sounding cymbals and overhead mics first.

[@knotfloyd]

Dan the man! I threw my hands up a few times watching this video

[@younyounyoun.]

I am sure that if that video was called "How to fix a broken mix, it would be trending in every producer's KZbin feed :) Awesome content as usual, thank you Mr Worall.

[@DJeMo]

The audio oracle has graced us again, ten hut, sir yes sir and firm handshakes as always, (sweaty hands sanitised)

[@ChrisMorris1336]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge, super interesting and super helpful!

[@XRaym]

Bertom Analyze EQ is like plugin doctor EQ panel but within a daw. really nice.

[@keepforest]

Try Melda Spectral Dynamics on paralell send with denoising staff and add paralell harmonics enchancing for restouration compressed mix. This is good because you can still comb out before send parallel. But yeah, your tutorial staff its big work! Thank you

[@reziahamed6654]

Simply Speechless! Thanks Dan.. 🤓👍👍🎉

[@jimbeaux4988]

I'm for sure going to over do this for a while. Really great video!

[@johankeilig3000]

This is the best thing I have ever seen...

[@michaelgrosso7438]

Great stuff! Something new to me, I love it.

[@Freogeteknet]

Great great video! regarding the drum not being tuned to the song properly I recently had a high tom that didn't feel quite right. I tried out the regular alt+shift mouse modifier and changed the pitch slightly, thinking it would sound bad as I know there are dedicated plugins out there for it. But damn to me it worked perfectly! Recently started using that feature in reaper more and more to save small deviations quickly and I feel like it's an underrestimated pitch shifter.

[@Freogeteknet]

used it to make a coffee thermos into a church bell and it worked a lot better than using something like little alterboy

[@documentingordinarythoughts]

One of your best yet ! Thank you!

[@Shred_Rocket]

Dan, the genius god! Awesome stuff here!!

[@djvoid1]

For a future video topic, can you go through why no-one seems to be able to get auto-gain 100% right? It's such consistent problem

[@Wergiftfresch]

"Thanks for watching" - Thanks for sharing!

[@maxjjk]

Worth the wait for this tutorial. Regarding changing the tuning of drums to match the key of a song, have you tried Torque since you became a Waves Affiliate? I really like it, especially for beefing up the low end on kicks or snares that are tuned too high - you can blend in a detuned version of the same drum without affecting the attack. Or you can go the opposite direction and add higher overtones to an overly dead drum.

[@AnimusInvidious]

torque is indeed a good one for that!

[@garrymkrtchyan1833]

Hey, Yoda Dan! Thank you for your efforts.

[@aloerecordz]

Like a dream come true. Bravo 🙏

[@artysanmobile]

As always, such cool & original music in your tutes.

[@superkaboose1066]

Since your the phase master (best I've seen anyway), a video on knowing what good phase and bad phase is and how to know and find what's causing could be super insightful, how do you know if you've got bad phase? even if it isn't obvious, and then where to find it basically.

[@LUCASAMUSICyt]

Imo if it's not obvious then you don't need to worry about finding it

[@gomesdiogo]

​@@LUCASAMUSICyt this you can try to flip the phase or use the paid ssl x-phase or the free Arx One to see if anything sounds better/fuller just in case, but the rule is if it does not sound bad, phase should be ok

[@RobHobsonProducer]

Well... I know what I'm trying on my next drum mix. Never considered this way before. Always learning. Cheers Dan!

[@David_Logr]

this question might seem stupid, but why route it in parallel into another channel and not just boost the frequency using EQ on the desired drum channel?

[@1176hambone]

I just realized that way back I did something like this when I messed up recording and my kick track was missing. Took room mics, bandpass 60hz, in parallel and viola, kick thump. This is furshure God Tier stuff. I had no idea. was just trying to solve and problem.

[@Userminusone]

I was sitting here trying to figure out how a viola recording would have anything to do with essentially synthesizing a kick drum from room mic recordings until I realized you meant "voila" 😂

[@davismccoy77]

On the subject of fixing bad drums, I would love to hear your thoughts on Waves’ Torque plugin

[@CarlyonProduction]

Yeah I would like to see a Worral deconstruction of that!

[@AlexNiedt]

His talk of saving the subject of adjusting the fundamental for a future video immediately made me wonder if he'd make a video on Torque. One of the best Waves plug-ins, IMO

[@TadDoylemusic]

Pure gold. Thank you Dan.

[@helmanfrow]

Plugin Doctor 2 just came out and it can be inserted onto a DAW track!