Soundtheory Gulffoss

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[@michaelwirth6843]

Gullfoss maybe is the best and most usefull plugin I ever bought!

[@user-xw4tn7xi5v]

After understanding Gulffoss, soon it became one of my favourite tools in mixing & mastering(always using it in little doses). Check the 2 filters where you can exclude areas of the spectrum. Well said man, it's not Snake Oil! Thanks!

[@_Patrick_H]

Check the red line on the left & right side, it should allow you to limit the gullfoss range. (low & high freq)

[@bluesky2145]

It is an awesome plugin. I'm also so proud of you for reading the manual. Great review!

[@TaffoVelikoff]

I love the sounds he makes while testing all these plugins

[@niklassilen4313]

You can use both tame and recovery at the same time. That's why there is a BIAS control there. It biases in border cases between taming or recovering frequencies (Exactly what it says in the manual). You also didn't explore the filters that limit the operation range of the plugin. Soundtheory have also said on Gearslutz that they are making a "pro" version of this thing with a lot more control.

[@domtak]

Niklas Silen at $150 this should be the Pro version

[@HistoryMaze]

I find a little goes a long way with Gullfoss - I often just use the tame setting - about +15 to 20%...on most material it just opens everything up and sounds better...

[@adamfox9651]

I recently saw this plugin being demonstrated on another KZbin channel. There are horizontal sliding controls on either side that allow you to narrow the range of affected frequencies or something like that.

[@emphatic001]

Glad to see you did a video on this. I'd like to think I was the first one to suggest it to you. If I understand it correctly, the BIAS should get you closer to what you want to control, but also as someone else has already mentioned, you might like to look into the Sonible Smart EQ too.

[@AspenTruth]

I absolutely love watching your reviews. I hate cracking manuals at times, but - understanding a few basic principles of any interface before one twists virtual knobs (or sliders) will help tremendously.

[@michaeldeleglise2671]

I use Gulfoss and i love it

[@ThomasCremier]

You can drag your pointer to create a low pass or high pas filter so Gullfoss won't affect the low and high frequencies 😉

[@gottreich]

Hey i am a huge snake oil fan and this one was very helpful. Thanks for it!

[@DrGodinho]

This one looks awesome

[@TerryFlatEarth]

I really respect what you teach. Thanks a lot.

[@PetrisonRocha]

I only discovered this today and I'm amazed. EQ'ing is the hardest part for me, especially dynamic EQ, and this sucker does all the dirtiest work on its own. Exciting times. I had to come and search for the Snake Oil episode, I knew it would have one.

[@Ramt33n]

Interesting video as always! Thumbs up

[@Dolphinboy999]

Perfect Preview Review. Looking forward to an in-depth...or did you already do that? (Pssst...I did buy it :-) )

[@TheGurner1]

Hmm, this is on my wish list for sure!

[@DigiMixAudio]

I liked your review of Gullfoss, and think your suggested eq feature would indeed make it more useful for me. Just wondering if you could review the Waves Studio 3 plugin. I'm trying it out and am not being overwhelmed with it, although it has rave reviews. Thanks for the R&D!

[@benedictnichols1539]

Will be interesting to see how this compares to Intensity from Zynaptic on the intelligent EQ front. (Intensity does a few other things too)

[@Rolanoid]

Have you reviewed Leapwing DynOne and Sonible Smart:EQ2 yet? Interested to hear your take on those.

[@xaosnox]

Ha! @ 1:20 is why I love this channel. That cut to the full screen of you saying "I'm neither of those" with that genuinely confused look on your face was so well done. Hilarious! Great info, your gut instincts are usually pretty right on, I've discovered a gem or two (this one is giving me plugin lust!), learned a lot, and get great entertainment value. Definitely on my list for Patreon as soon as I'm able to do that on the 1st. Will have to start small, but will increase my contribution as I'm able to start doing more work again. A+

[@boimesa8190]

so this is only for the main mix? not for separate channels? please update us when u experiment more with this plug! :D

[@PharaohLawLess1]

I LOVE GULLFOSS!!! The best tip in using this GREAT plugin is don't listen to the manual when they say it should be the 1st plugin on your mastering chain....NO...it should be the last plugin on your master buss chain. This plugin is a dynamic EQ really and it cleans everything up nicely.

[@Asagraham]

i have two eqs (1073 then pro q) ssl comp then this then limiter last, so not last, but def not first i agree with that

[@fluctura]

@White Sea Studio Actually, you have control over it. Left and right in the graph are red borders. You can drag them to limit the frequency range (band) affected. e.g. only 500 to 2000Hz. Now, set your settings for this range. If you need another band modified, add another plugin instance in row. So you can have as many Gulffoss EQ's as you want and multi-band is perfectly possible.

[@fluctura]

And wow, then the thing becomes powerful... limit frequency range from 20Hz to somewhat 90Hz, Tame 50%, Brighten -10% and Boost 6dB and wait for a kick. Wow. It leaves the mix "as is", until the bass signal comes it. Only boosts a signal when it is playing (realtime). I start to understand what the thing is doing.. you could do the same thing with a standard EQ, but you would need to automate it. It also balances the mix... so when the bass is boosted it also levels the other frequencies to keep "sounding good"... interesting. Seems to have a psychoacoustic model in it's algo

[@JayyReezy]

second video i seen on this and very impressive!

[@MIxstarsOnline]

Would you prefer this or Neutron 3?

[@NapalmCandy]

Did you another video of Gullfoss as you said on this video?

[@liamhebden8857]

I would like to see you do the octavox and some of the other plugin's with the slate bundle... I'm interested in the ones that are not a straight emulation but still have a analog interface. They looked interesting... although I agree on the analog looki a like interface thing .. but then as someone with no much money, they are some what of a comfort to see on the screen... once I have these in real life they are going to drive me mad. Plugin's should come with skins and you can decide when you want it to look analog or when you want it plain

[@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?

[@TonyPelosi-music]

Hofa DDP is a nice 'final touch' plugin you could investigate. Thanks

[@orchetect7415]

I don't care what anyone says, I'm calling it Gullfloss.

[@Bucking_Fastard]

I don’t understand Facebook to this day.

[@VashPaxamor]

can you do SKNOTE plugins?

[@boimesa8190]

any new news on gullfoss??

[@eduardollerandez9936]

Bro!I love your review videos!!:)you do an excellent job of explaining what each plugin is doing and you had me laughing so hard twards the end when you said "dam this is pretty good!"lol!that was great!I watched it three times just to see your reaction from that part! definitely put a smile on my face because I do the exact same thing when I like a plug-in I'm useing for the first time!:))😁😃great review sir and much love!:) 💯

[@bradbloom5649]

Was just thinking you might be able to use three (or however many bands you want) instances of this, utilizing the low and hi cut/pass filters so that for example instance 1 was filtered to only effect material from 0Hz to 5kHz, the second instance filtered to only effect 5Kz to 10kHz, and the third 10kHz to 20kHz. That might be a workaround for the frequency band/eq curve manual manipulation, etc. Outstanding plug-in regardless though.

[@bobgulian1858]

My problem after fiddling with the demo yesterday, having some great results and one spectacular disaster (it matters more than regular eqs where in the chain Gulfoss is), is should I just get better and better at EQ or give it up and become a Gulfoss expert? I’m leaning towards EQ as a more translatable skill.

[@AllanGildea]

Thank you, very helpful!

[@ricc333]

I saw a DnB producer raving about this a couple months ago. Nice to see a different opinion on it.

[@urigeheadmot1196]

Ricc Recco who ?

[@greedokenobi3855]

It’s “Gullfoss” instead of Gulffoss, not the biggest problem in the world but maybe to be found by search engines and such you might want to edit the video title. Your video introduced me to the plugin btw so big thanks for that!

[@TheGurner1]

I found it! Seems like an amazing plugin

[@greedokenobi3855]

You ‘found’ it?

[@TheGurner1]

@@greedokenobi3855 I'm not sure myself now, must have found something though ;-)

[@thesuncollective1475]

There is a range control apparently

[@davidkeller8084]

you should use the red lines on the left and right to control the frequencies that are effected

[@ignite137]

This thing is more acting like Sonible Smart EQ (which i own). When you click the magic staff on that EQ it does the same handling at first site.. Although you got more and immediate control with Smart EQ, and better results..

[@rikkardo1980]

I think the same...I like Smart EQ because you can do your fine adjustment after, so I use as a guide but then I can still follow my EQ idea

[@VagendaAdnegav]

The main difference that I see between Smart EQ and this EQ is that this EQ is constantly adjusting itself in real time to the content. Smart EQ makes one analysis and executes a static answer that you can dial in from.

[@dickiedicksma1389]

Completely different beasts if you ask me( and I have both, even the latest version 2 and the LIVE version). Gulffoss uses a model of the cochlea to shape the sound , I can't find any reference to a model in Smart-EQ just "presets" for certain types of instrument or vocals that are then "strived for" by the dynamic eq part, but maybe that's hidden somewhere in Sonibles Webpages or manuals... But it is in no way the 100 times per second that Gullfoss does its measurements ( and keeps doing it, like with Smart-EQ LIVE, but I can't find how often a second...). I think the basic difference however is in the AI model behind the two. My results with Gullfoss are way better than with Smart-EQ , which I found remarkable at the time and bought them all.

[@Andre_Kolodziej]

For me a goto in the master channel. Great

[@SoniqSounds]

Best plugin EVER!!!!

[@ryansexton2499]

I like to mix the tame and the recover parameters together, one biased against the other. I have never gone beyond 20% in any direction on any parameter.

[@fourtheye111]

It's does a great job, used in small doses.

[@olekolecki6313]

Can it be compared to Izotope Neutron? Does this plugin work better?

[@tonetrigger7534]

hehe very good contribution, as always what I find really funny is that you could have looked at the instructions msan could also cutten .. thx

[@RoodyCall]

the buy now button dont work for me on their website

[@atellsoundtheory8774]

You probably have an ad-blocker running that prevents the overlay from showing. We're trying to find out why this is happening, but for now,​ you can just disable the ad-blocker or white-list the site.

[@andigisler]

Nembrini all the way! Sounds better to my ears (I just installed it in PT) and while they copied the design the also got rid of the useless controls like 'Noise' 'Sample Rate' and 'Anti-Alias' that only complicated the AVID version for no reason. Most importantly, the added 'Volume' control of the Nembrini version is very useful. I expected to see a Wet/Dry control as well like the Nembrini version of the Sans-Amp PSA-1 (called PSA 1000) has. But maybe they wanted to keep it as simple as possible which makes a lot of sense. The PSA-1000 lets you distort in a very precise and versatile way. The LOFi Clipper on the other hand is quick and dirty - and great.

[@adrianthomas4163]

Nice series. Please do a Snake Oil video about... Snake Oil.

[@aahl1680]

It is time for a follow up …...

[@marekvoosen]

You can change things which should not be altered, possible for bass and high frequencies.

[@atellsoundtheory8774]

Not only for bass and treble, but also for a band. You can achieve this by moving the low-frequency range selector over the high-frequency one, which will exclude the range between the two from processing.

[@UncleMarty]

Whenever you start your videos I always feel you're about to jump out of my monitor ;)

[@castin5244]

This video made me buy it.

[@danielmauric8491]

You never did do another review as you said you would after using it for few months. Did you end up not using it ?

[@hanshingerl7187]

Gibt es eine deutsche Anleitung von Gullfoss

[@liamhebden8857]

their problem was showing you too much... plugin's that do a similar thing usually wouldn't show what it's doing... once you see it you want to be able to adjust it... other plugin's like this have like two knobs max and a few clicky leavers in some analog looking interface

[@ELPLAK]

It is a complex dynamic eq. That is it.

[@golafs]

gullfoss, not gulfoss. probably named after the waterfall in iceland

[@JCNOAOU]

Where’s the follow up video?

[@zonasound]

Reaper has its own built in soundtheory analyzer.

[@jotaudio1]

What is it called?

[@pclairoot]

That's a forward-looking automatic multipoint tilt EQ... Sound Radix's Surfer EQ does that better (and does alos what Soothe does)

[@carltonbanks194]

LMAO the darude sandstorm joke hahahahaha

[@roadreg1820]

My gosh you sound exactly the same as Max from Auto Top Nl on YT! That’s uncanny

[@chicagovoicelab]

You can just put A Fab-Filter on the same insert and adjust the frequencies using both!

[@cesmcmyth]

hahaha I like how you can recognise and step back - intro "I'm not gonna read the manual, leave if you don't like it" minute 5.01 "ok where's the bloddy manual?" hahaha

[@Mansardian]

@Wytse again damaged your fingernail??

[@RobertNaik]

Great video. It means something I feel if you like it!

[@marekvoosen]

Check out some Sonimus stuff.

[@prageethathapaththu8090]

Yes it's useful

[@milosjozic]

i love you crazy enthusiastic sound geek.. :) i never heard so simply opening eq control for any instrument..

[@greedokenobi3855]

There actually is more control. Check this out (especially the part on 7:14).. you can determine an area in the freq spec that you want to adjust while leaving the rest alone. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHjMfK2chM9jatk

[@MrGnarShredder]

This will be 35% off from 11/30-12/3 for cyber Monday for all interested!

[@Fifavin14]

Gullfoss over Soothe2 or not? Btw snakeoil is een zalige serie! Groeten vanuit België

[@dkemil]

you spelled it wrong.

[@Steadyawake]

Use more jungle music!

[@queenpurple8433]

Run a “perfect production” through this plugin. The results are interesting. I shouldn’t say perfect production, I should say Grammy award winning production instead of perfect lol

[@smokinmoose2]

I still don't understand Facebook.

[@powermix24]

I love Sandstorm by Darude 😂

[@NathanSheeranMixingMastering]

150 euros for a ai to auto- eq ur music.. thats pricey

[@JohnDLewis]

Alt + Enter = reset dials.

[@LoveMeBack]

Guess you didn’t get a license?

[@LemoBeatc]

You can get this plugin for 99$ with their academic discount!

[@justincicco5146]

spiff is snakeoil

[@kiqyou]

do i have a problem w analog snobs? ya.

[@pcvictoriano4287]

Plz do Joey Sturgis Plugins

[@Swag-ho2yr]

watchin a dude waitin for a plug to happen... awesome

[@karloxkarlox668]

use different plugins then you have a rich sound

[@kevinwilliams6006]

I must say...I don't know why I should listen to this guy but he has a very hoi polloi appeal. His approach, why bother with a manual, reminds me of myself. Don't know why, but I keep coming back...

[@djbonne1]

I have and I didn't find much difference, no, it's not magic as they say

[@glugblub7524]

hey bro i love your style and contribution to the community but sometimes i feel like you start your videos without getting deeper in the product/topic and missing some detials that may would be important to form an opinion. at least for me. also you are handsome have a nice day

[@michaelbriggs7328]

Just FYI Gullfoss has two L's.

[@thewedge8823]

the difference is very subtle. it's not mind blowing and game changing like everyone is making it out to be.

[@jeffryschmidt635]

i expected darude sandstorm

[@ramseysounds2086]

seems to be an EQ repair for a poorly mixed track. Maybe mix your track better in the first place?

[@robiniekiller45]

Or just let this thing do the mixing