THIS is how you EQ HEAVY GUITARS (feat. Karl Sanders / NILE)!

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Today German producer Kristian Kohle (Aborted, Powerwolf, Eskimo Callboy, Hämatom, Van Canto, Emil Bulls, Benighted) shows you how to use Dynamic EQ / Multiband Compression to make your heavy guitar tracks sit right in a dense metal mix!
Today we're working on the track "Redemption in Self-Destruction" by OMOPHAGIA feat. Karl Sanders (Nile).
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[@KohleAudioKult]

What this helpful to you guys? I see you inside the KULT! 🤩

[@user-lw9py]

I hear no jumping . maybe you should verify your speakers with a sine tone at diffrent frequency if it is in middle and distance feell stay same. 3 way speakers so near are not so good

[@danivalles7638]

I really liked how you approached this guitar solo, it really make it sit in the mix effortlessly while preserving and enhancing it's tone.

[@ChrisTheGodLess]

Neurosis silver and blood on acid!😂

[@Producelikeapro]

Wow! Fantastic video on EQing heavy guitars! I learnt so much from this.

[@tzaakofficial]

Karl’s JCM 2000 rhythm tone is definitely one of my favourites

[@GoHM-2Yourself]

For the fellow chainsaw lovers: I use a dynamic EQ (TDR Nova, it's free) after the HM2 plugin to stomp on the palm mutes (since the HM2 boosts around 80hz) without gutting the sound while playing riffs. Your master fader will thank you for ever 👍🏻

[@KohleAudioKult]

That’s another way (and maybe the most common way) of using dynamic EQs that I show in the course

[@gastonjabaly]

I use a tubescreamer before the hm2

[@seanmorgan9020]

Karl is a cool guy and has a crushing tone. No actives, just hot rodded Marshall's and Duncan's.

[@DwightMann-r1o]

Duncans are the shit. 👍👍

[@MyBichSustained]

Karl is truly a insane guitarist...Especially witnesses nile live on shrooms back in 98!

[@jonnymak1079]

He is really good and a cool dude We played a metal fest thingy in Newark New Jersey I was on no sleep asking some guy where to put my equipment... he helped me and put it with other people's equipment ,wich all the cases said Nile on them lol and I realized it was him :/ "Cocainz a hell of a drug" especially mixed with weed and xanex😂 They went on later that night and KIIIIIILLLED IT with there set.

[@MyBichSustained]

Hell yea!I met them back in the 90's....They where touring with Morbid Angel again the 2nd time I saw them and Dallas stood next to me and we became the choir on chapel of ghouls and I joined in with him when he started it it was killer!

[@altpath]

On shrooms! That must have been a wild show 😮

[@MyBichSustained]

@@altpath insane...it was the first time I heard them...I was peaking when they came on....Blue theme.

[@artokujala]

Damn that’s really great band! Thank you 🦾

[@CrushingAxes]

Nice! Fabfilter MB is a life saver, love fabfilter stuff! Karl is a really good musician! Will definitely check this Omophagia later! Cool solo!

[@KohleAudioKult]

Do it! The album is killer!

[@chadmorral1326]

That's a sick solo. Some very violin sounding licks

[@YokuStudio]

wow! rhytmic guitars sound killer! great job!

[@IsUserADuck]

You can immediately recognize Karl's style :) So awesome!

[@thomasmims7850]

Can't wait to start writing with my new Randy250 plugin! I'll try out this dynamic EQ trick whenever i come up with something sick from the Randall's inspiration, thanks Kohle

[@czechhusky4660]

Thanks you for all the context. No one close to the care you put into these videos.

[@AlexeySolovievMusic]

Wonderful video Kristian! I still need to learn how to use Dynamic EQ and multiband compressor on guitars to make them sound cleaner and solid in the mix. And this video explains everything very well! 😀👍🔥🔥🔥

[@tubetwister76]

great! my favourite recording channel on YT

[@heartheroaaar1168]

One of my favorite guitarist + one of my favorite producer = 😍😍😍

[@BrofUJu]

Awesome! I always try to think of guitar solos as vocals. It's gotta be upfront, but there's a lot of variation.

[@KohleAudioKult]

Oh yeah! A good mix of a guitar solo usually needs a lot of love and automation to be present but not annoying!

[@wilhelm2016]

Love Pro MB. I usually have at least a dozen going in my mixes. Great for side chaining too. Be sure to crank the oversampling to 4x before mix down for best results. \m/

[@KohleAudioKult]

Agree! At least for the higher frequencies

[@metaldefender49]

Great stuff man.

[@demoncole]

that solo is so fucking cool

[@benkolts]

Nice work, brother! 🤘

[@AlexGuitarrr]

thank you for sharing your knowledge!!!!! I loved the way you explain things. Very, very helpful! \m/

[@analogkid4557]

Perfect timing for me. I am working on a track and can't get the solo to sit right in the mix. Thank you!

[@KohleAudioKult]

You’re welcome! The course explains a few more examples. From rhythm to lead guitars.

[@DwightMann-r1o]

Same here.

[@leonidaspapanikolaou3165]

Absolutely amazing

[@dive-bomb]

karl is such huge an influence on me !

[@marcsee4072]

fantastic tutorial - magic

[@DwightMann-r1o]

Dude, you're awesome. 👍👍

[@jonnymak1079]

Played with Nile in Jersey years ago There definitely good at what they do

[@Fexiheit]

Awesome video 💪 what attack and release settings did you use in the Pro-MB?

[@KohleAudioKult]

I usually go for pretty fast settings. But you should be able to see it in the course.

[@TheChrispablo]

Karl OG!

[@zander9486]

0:10 yes very true!

[@JoeHasGas]

New to this ,drop c metal with high gain amp Sims with a TS up front in to pulse ir loader with reaper. Setting lp/hp, is 100-10k ok or 80-12k? A cut at 300 I see people do is a few DB the norm (1-4db) ,and the high end where do people cut? If I set hp at 10k do I cut 8k (1-4db).

[@Durkhead]

I haven't tried this yet but what iv heard is look up your favorite guitar amp speaker frequency response and use that as a guide

[@asherplatts6253]

Wow. I gotta spend the time figuring out how to do this in Reaper with stock plugins now, that solo track went from wooly and harsh to glassy and singing. Bravo.

[@mauricioapoteom2604]

Awesome. FFProQ dynamic eq work as well?

[@KohleAudioKult]

Yes. That one is even a "real" dynamic EQ. With Pro-MB you're more flexible to dial in the dynamic behavior of the bands. In Pro-Q you're more flexible with the EQ bands themselves. A combination would be great. Maybe Pro-MB 2?

[@mauricioapoteom2604]

@@KohleAudioKult Thanks. Pro-MB 2? Great idea

[@KohleAudioKult]

@@mauricioapoteom2604 I have been waiting for that for a long time tbh!

[@mauricioapoteom2604]

@@KohleAudioKult haha I'm with you man

[@teatime6414]

There is a difference between dynamic EQ and multi-band comp. Feel like it’s a little misleading to keep calling it dynamic EQ. There is a vid from raytown productions where he gives a pretty good explanation of the difference. But yeah overall this sounds good though. Great vid!

[@Czyszy]

To be frank, I'm not a fan of leaving any high end in heavy power chord rhythm guitars that are meant to sit in an mix full of all kinds of different instruments playing at the same time, especially keyboards. For some reason, to me, the busy mix obscures the mids and lows of the power chord tracks and leaves the high frequencies create an awkward sonic shell that always has that annoying hiss, which interferes with other instruments. It feels like the power chords are surrounding the mix and not sitting in it. So what do I do? I cut pretty drastically at 2K Hz or lower! That way, the guitars are there in the background, only reinforcing an already busy mix and not hovering in the air, screeching and hissing around.

[@texxhexxmm]

DSL 50 is so good.

[@mattvdh]

Makes me wonder why amp engineers and metal producers don't get together and figure out how to create an amp that doesn't require and post processing /EQ'ing. I've seen this EQ type on hundreds of metal vides with the low/high cut and mid scoop, makes you wonder why amp companies don't work on creating an amp that has that filter already prebuilt in(?)

[@KohleAudioKult]

Because you can’t build in an EQ curve into an amp that will translate through all speakers (which are more important anyway) and all mics in this world! There’s no preset for everything. Sometimes you gotta fix things manually. 🤪

A kult cheat sheet would be cool for us simple mortals, as starting point

[@KohleAudioKult]

The course actually includes a very nice looking booklet that sums up the course‘s content. Sooner or later we’ll do a free course for all those people who are not sure about joining the Kult yet.

@@KohleAudioKult nice!! I'm watching the course right now :) long live the Kult haha

[@KohleAudioKult]

@ Even better! Enjoy! Make sure to send in a question for next week's WEEKLY SERVICE!

[@michaellandrumguitar]

Sounds like mosark on lead

[@acidbath3226]

i love jensen speakers they rule

[@georgetheodor112]

How do one knows if the band is cold- or warm-sounding? Where should one put his thermometer?

[@barneycockburn]

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[@descendinguniverse]

I like their rhythm guitar tone a lot! What was the amplification?

[@KohleAudioKult]

Several amps blended. I don’t remember the details. I gotta look it up.

[@roq_itrecordingstudio4152]

A fantastic educational video !! Hey, I just signed up onto the See You In Hell Kult !! I was logged in, cheking all the cool things out !! I then paid for the yearlly kohleaudiokult academy !!! Friiick YEA !!! Then all of a sudden, it bumped me off, logged me out and when I went to log back it, the message that I got read, incorrect log in info ???? So, I hit the "forgot log in" button . Help is on the way !! But sadly, Im still broken down on this lonely deserted island. Any advise ?? YOU ROCK!!! Thanks !

[@KohleAudioKult]

Just write back to socials at Kohlekeller.de and we’ll figure it out! Please use the email you signed up with.

[@LouisLinggandtheBombs]

"Nice song!" I laughed so hard I spat out my tea! (No offense! I dig black metal too!)

[@KohleAudioKult]

Beautiful lullaby! ;)

[@gastonjabaly]

Kooooohle when are you going to upload the ir that you used on your intro if you haven't if you did which one is it?

[@KohleAudioKult]

Which intro do you mean? But I’m using real cabs most of the time so I guess there is no IR

[@gastonjabaly]

@@KohleAudioKult your regular metal intro the one the singer recorded vocals for the mic comparison video the riff you always play i wish i could sing it thru here lol

[@gastonjabaly]

@@KohleAudioKult oh btw kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4ipn5l4fpipars

[@molotovbatradio]

🔥🔥🔥

[@infernotion]

Would you recommend Dynamic EQ also for rhythm guitars?

[@KohleAudioKult]

Absolutely! The full course shows how I treat rhythm guitars too. Mostly for tightening them in the low end.

[@matrixmodulator]

11:09 - 11:16

[@whatskraken3886]

pro-q does do dynamic eq too, is there a reason why you aren't using it?

[@KohleAudioKult]

It’s good. It’s just very limited.

[@whatskraken3886]

@@KohleAudioKult TDR Nova GE is purpose-built around dynamic eq, and I really like its results

[@19Christian64]

hi Kristian, i'm Christian i have a problem. I subscribed to your mailing list to get your preset pro mb but its not working i am not getting anything. can you help me?

[@KohleAudioKult]

Hey man! In the final confirmation mail there's an invitation to Discord where all my free stuff is. If you missed it, just write back to the newsletter and we'll send it to you!

[@oneriffaday6162]

what version of windows do you use? i

[@KohleAudioKult]

I’m using it on Windows 10. No problem!

[@sHa360]

Can you also use the Fabfilter Q3 Dynamic EQ instead of Pro MB to achieve the same result?

[@FrankTheSmithTV]

Pretty much. Only thing different really is with Pro MB you have control over attack, release, ratio, knee.

[@KohleAudioKult]

Exactly!

[@RockCityMusic777]

Wait. Did you get rid of your Amphions? Are the new Monitors Hedds?

[@KohleAudioKult]

Those are EVE Audio monitors and they sound fantastic. But this is just another control room! I still have my Amohions in my Studio A

[@Kyp031]

I'd love for you to do an entire nile record.

[@atlas6053]

Kind of off-topic but can anyone tell me which controller Kohle uses there right behind his keyboard?

[@KohleAudioKult]

That's not a controller. That's my ATEM Mini video recorder. In my other control room I use a Steonberg CC121 though.

[@doctersound9630]

Real drummer? Sounds super processed. Would love to see the drummer live............

[@gijsjaradijsja]

if you want some more hi-end you can take the beanie off

[@KohleAudioKult]

Life's too harsh without a beanie, haha!

[@SuperDeadRooster]

"Nice Song" 😆

[@johnwalter6410]

1:03 worst band pic ever

[@EliPorterMahn]

I thought he said Fap Filter at first, I need Jesus.

[@Bognerman14]

Nobody really records any longer anyway. Just worry about live in the room tones and feel.

[@metalfather8139]

Master. You know better than to show your open holes on that 500rack... how inappropriate.....

[@KohleAudioKult]

You mean I should buy more gear? 🤪

[@guydude4124]

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[@KohleAudioKult]

I think you should watch the video again to fully understand what I did.

[@TrevorDann-sg4eg]

thumbs up if there's girls here ...

[@KohleAudioKult]

I'm afraid not ;)