Dynamic Sidechaining with ProEQ3 in Studio One 6 

I was just mastering a track and needed to sidechain my vocals and never had used this EQ. Game changing! OMG, my vocals have never been so clear. All of my producer friends keep telling me I need to use Ableton, I tell tell them they need to use Studio One! Thanks for the vid.

Super explanation and demo. You‘re an excellent teacher Gregor. Always thought sidechain EQ would be something too complex for me to comprehend, but I totally get it! 😊

Always clear, concise and inspirational when teaching!!! You make using S16 SO MUCH EASIER!! Thank you!!

Just got to try this function today...had to put a new vocal on a previously mastered instrumental for a client... Used Splitter to get it in the M/S mode and put it up against Izotope Neutron's Unmasking feature. And I got better results with Pro EQ 3! Good Job Presonus 💪🤘

Hah, that's what I needed right now to make the vocals fit into the playback to properly mix a vocal cover! Awesome, thanks a lot!

Please guys!!! We love the eq3, but the only thing that lacks is a mid side eq. Make it mid side and it would be amazing.

Impressed with the attack & release behavior of the EQ's dynamic section. Not many artifacts, and no need to mess with additional controls. Well done Presonus!

I have 5 pro actually I wasnt thinking about upgrading to 6 but I checked all new features so I upgraded to 6. I like ProEQ because it is really transparent and doing nice job

Thank you, Gregor, for your short, concise explanations and excellent pronunciation of English. Admirable!

Dynamic EQ is a perfect tool to clean up recordings (e.g. nasal sounding vocals at high levels) without altering the overall character. But sidechaining tops it all. I use this to carve out space from guitar-, synth- or piano-tracks to fit in the vocals. It's such a mighty thing. I never needed Trackspacer since Pro EQ3 was invented. Well done, Presonus!

Thanks Presonus! You've finally perfected Pro Eq! I'm so happy to be a member of the Presonus Sphere community and all the benefits you provide us!

Gregor the savior to our never ending how to S6 or Studio one tutorials and break downs. You are the man Gregor really appreciate all the knowledge you share with us!

Immediately part of my templates now - so awesome to have this feature in a native plugin. Thanks for helping me transition from Cubase, Gregor. ✌🏻

It's also great for making distorted guitars leave space for the bass guitar. I used to aggressively cut everything below 100 Hz from the guitar tracks, which works great when guitar and bass are playing unisono, but once the guitar plays alone (in an interlude or something), it sounds pretty thin. With dynamic equalization, the guitar can be made thinner only when needed for the bass guitar to cut through.

This is the single and only real reason why I went up to S1v6. Everything else is a freebie. ; ) Nice example given, Gregor.

Your psychology is totally correct. We notice changes that happen above or in front of a background field. Bingo.

i loved the goth synth wavy example in this video

I left S1 behind because of the video track issue and switched to PT but I still come back to Gregor and Joe for their great tuts.

Gregor ist der beste, as always! 💥

Dear Gregor and Presonus, thank you for making these!!!

that's really awesome. What a cool EQ.

Adding Match EQ to this would be unbelievable.

Thx for making learning Studio One easy #GregorBeyerle! Great videos all the time!

Love it! I am also way psyched for the panning options I've been waiting years for. Brilliant.

"Science" lol Good one Gregor. Yeah, I'm really enjoying the benefits of the dynamic EQ sidechain on my new album release. Cheers!

audio tools keeps getting better for mixing engineers.

That's just brilliant Gregor!

Excellant videos Gregor! You have a great teachings style 😊

Gregor ist der beste!

Thank you so so much!!!

Thank You Gregor.

I greatly appreciate these videos ... thank you

Excellent tutorial as always. Thanks, and I'm looking forward to trying this out.

One word. Wow.

I am so happy Presonus came out with this Eq. Excellent explanation Gregor. Great product. I love the Presonus line.

I'd choose the CTC-1 PRO over that and the vocoder. Already got dynamic EQ ages ago

"SCIENCE!" mwahahaha (evil geniius laugh)

Excellent as always

You Rock, Gregor!!!

I've got a question about this sidechaining & dynamics. Say you have a busy drumfill that consists of like 3 toms and some kicks in between them. Now with standard EQ, when hit separately, they sound ok. But when the fill is played everything becomes boomy and bassy. I wanted to introduce sidechaining in a way that all the toms and kick listen to each other so when one of them is played, the rest of their dynamic eqs lower the bass frequencies. In this way I would get a result as if the whole fill has been under, say 6db cut at 100hz. The issue is, I cannot get this to work. When I set the kick's dynamic eq sidechain to tom1, tom2 & tom3 and go to the tom1's dynamic eq to do the same thing, there is no kick channel to select for the side chain. Further on, when I go to tom2 sidechain, I can no longer choose to select kick and tom1 into the sidechaining. Why can't it be set so they all would be listening to each other and lower the 100hz frequency when they heard each other? Thanks

Cool feature, it's working just like plugin Soothe

great video Gregor! You made this easier to understand. Now all we need is a translator button. 😁 just kidding. thank you for the explanation.

Does it only duck a preselected frequency? I would love to use this for something like a piano where it ducks only the frequency that is being played. So if you are playing a note of 440hz the side chain is ducked in the 440hz range. Does that make sense@?

Another solution is a transient shaper on the mastered track :)

sooooooooooooooooooooooooo good gregor~~~

I just learned about tonal and harmonic EQs and am wondering if Studio One 5 has either in the stock plug ins. How would I know if the EQ is transparent, tonal or harmonic?

Cool plugin. I think you could have got away with less gain reduction on the master but for this demo it showed the function so all's good!

Wow is right!

Excelente hermano

已经用上了，EQ3真的很强大哟~~！

Gregor! Help. please… I’m so confused. Been a Pro Tools user for some years and swiched to Studio One a month ago. When I started out with PT I was a total beginner. Learned the basics within a few hours. So simple and easy workflow. And everything that I learned after that was intuitive and easy. But with SO everything is a challange. Please do a video ”Going From PT to SO”

Hi, love your videos. I like to pick your brain. I have 2 questions. 1. How can I get studiolive 32s series 3, to work with pipleline XT. 2. How do I connect outboard gear to work with studiolive 32s Aux inputs. I tried to find answers but none of them are to clear. Thanks, George.

As a long time user since version 1.6 ; of the program that introduced an integrated mastering page 📄; dynamic eq has been a long time coming !!! But I’m here for it

This is amazing! 🔥🔥

Hey Gregor How can you detect when you have this issue and when to use this method?

Please Gregor, can you tell me the productor and model of your gaming keyboard (the red/white/black one)? Love it Thanx

das Lied ist lustig :-) Danke Gregor

So when do we get this on the series 3 boards? Or is that a series 4 feature?

That's amazing, it actually looks like the Pro EQ is singing the vocal LOL.

curious what the benefit is over sidechaining multiband compression. is it just the more surgical narrow frequencies and transparency of the eq itself?

Science!

Great stuff! one quick one, reverse midi where is that function in studio one? I know Ableton and logic has it....

Great tool! I've used it several times now and generally like the results. I wish I felt more confident about setting the frequency, Q, and threshold optimally. Is there any reference or advice available?

Why can we use izotope rx with studio one ?

Why i dont have the side chaim button in the plugins ? I have studio one 6 but every plugins dont have that button to side chain

Can the sidechain be mid/side?

what kind of sidechain u use on your hair

_BOSS_

Thanks Gregor for your great videos. Always informative! Does the dynamic equalizer function work with midi tracks. I have followed your instructions but don't seem to be able to create the dynamics as you have shown. Thanks!

How to side chain effects ( vocal) for live?

I’m currently having difficulty retrieving the sound of a project I'm working on. I’ve tried every possible trick and failed. Kindly help out, as I'm in a desperate situation. There's no sound at all with this particular one.

\o/ thanks for sharing!

Can you automate the solo functions on bands? I will be upgrading soon. this would be an amazing feature if you wanted to do a radio vocals for just a word or something.

wow that sounds amazing - however I did not understand the lyrics any better after 😂

U can take eq3 give us lfo tools that control anything instead. Like in FL Studio or bitwig

Is this a free plug in ?

Does anyone else experience this bug? I just want to make sure it isn't system-specific before filing a bug report. 1. Open a new project. 2. Drag a WAV file into a track. It doesn't matter where. The sample rate or mono/stereo status doesn't seem to matter, but make sure there's audio at the very beginning of the Event. 3. Insert a Pro EQ3, either as an insert or Event effect. 4. Enable the LLC stage. The slope or hard/soft choice doesn't seem to matter. 5. Transform to rendered audio, or Render if it's an Event effect. The apparent bug is that this mutes first few 1 or 2 seconds of the WAV file. This doesn't happen with any of the other stages, only the LLC stage. If you do encounter this issue, the workaround is to add several seconds of blank audio at the beginning of the file prior to rendering.

Im very happy with this update. Really well done! Is there a way to make it do mid-side?

Released late. I think there are much better EQs in the market now.

I am asking you for an audio track Release "pitch shift" and "tape stop" to automation. After all, comfort is the first priority for you! prove it @

"Science!" Ausgezecihnet

There is something substantially wrong with the code. When bouncing the track with the Pro eq3 on the track , it cuts the beginning of the rendered track off. Make sure there is no extra space in the beginning of that track, before rendering. It’s a serious bug. Who knows what else is wrong with that program. Rendering is a very important issue, there must be something wrong with the code, my guess. And that’s with their own plug-in, let alone the third party plugs.

Ableton, please do this!

Wait. S1 6 has a dynamic EQ? Time to upgrade from 4 😎😂😂

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Multiple issues with PDC in S1. V6. With different plug-ins that have look ahead function active. Internal mixdown failures with ProQ3 (their own plug-in) Chopped off beginning ( parts of the wav) after rendering Absolut Desaster !! S1 Internal Mathematik is seriously broken

Need a mid side eq

so Trackspacer in a stock plugin

it's not going back to normal when the vocal isn't playing

Im a rapper.

Now show us how to do mid side 🤣 Oh wait! You cant! 😎

Yes let's go