Fabfilter Pro offers a comprehensive bundle of VST plugins, including effects and synth. This plugin bundle is known for its simplicity, user-friendly interface, and quality.
This plugin bundle offers a variety of plugins, such as EQ, reverb, delay, flanger, pitch shifters, etc. It is designed for professional producers as well as beginners.
It can be used for mixing, mastering, and other tasks. In this article, I will discuss the uses and applications, as well as provide an overview of the critical features of the Fabfilter Total Bundle.
I’ll also delve into the technical aspects of this Fabfilter Pro bundle. So, without further ado, let’s dive in!
Overview of the Fabfilter Plugin Bundle:
This plugin bundle includes 14 distinct plugins. These are the EQ, Reverb, Flanger, Delay, Limiter, Compressor and other effect plugins. You’ll also find some synth plugins within this collection. In this section, I’ll overview three plugins in the FabFilter Total Bundle. After that, I will upload another article on the same topic, discussing the other three plugins. It is because the article will be very long if I discuss all the 14 plugins once. I will discuss Pro Q 3, Saturn, and fab filter limiters in this article.
Fabfilter Pro-Q 3:
Fabfilter Pro Q 3 is an EQ plugin with many features. Here’s a closer look at its offerings.
- This offers more customization than many other EQs on the market.
- It includes various filter types such as bell, notch, high/low shelf, high/low cut, band-pass, tilt shelf, and flat tilt.
- Each band you create in this EQ can function dynamically. So, it can automatically adjust to reduce or boost specific frequencies based on the input signal.
- Fabfilter Pro Q 3 includes pre- and post-EQ analyzers to help users see what it does to the sound.
- Pro-Q 3 can also affect the mid-side information of the input signal, allowing the user to increase or decrease the stereo field of the input signal.
- This EQ of the Fabfilter pro bundle also has the auto gain option. This option allows the EQ to boost the overall signal when the user cuts any specific EQ spectrum band. No matter how much you cut the signal with this EQ, the overall volume of the sound before and after remains the same.
- Linear Phase Mode is also available in the fab filter pro Q 3 and can be used for mastering. This mode ensures zero latency and processes the sound naturally; It does affect the stereo signal. In this way, the phase of the sound is preserved.
- The Fabfilter pro-Q 3 can also match the EQ curve of one track to another, ensuring consistent tonality across your mix.
Here is the visual representation of the Pro Q 3 plugin.
Uses and Applications of the Fabfilter Pro Q 3
Tonal Shaping:
This Fabfilter Pro bundle plugin provides 24 EQ bands. These bands allow users to boost or cut any frequency area to shape the sound’s tonality.
Problem Area Correction:
This plugin can be used to target the problematic area of the sound, reduce muddiness, etc. This EQ can also be used as a surgical EQ to reduce harshness and improve clarity.
Stereo Imaging:
The Fabfilter Pro Q 3 can affect the left and right channels individually, allowing the user to modify the mid-side information of his sound.
Mastering:
This EQ plugin also provides linear phase and zero-latency modes, which make it suitable for mastering.
Fabfilter Saturn:
The Fabfilter Saturn is a plugin that gives distortion and soft saturation. Its primary information is listed below.
- This Plugin can provide soft saturation and crunchy distortion.
- The old analog studio gears also inspire this Saturn 2 plugin.
- It provides 28 distortion modes, such as tubes, tape, transformers, and guitar amps.
- Unlike the other distortion plugins, the fab filter Saturn provides multi-band distortion. It can provide up to 6 frequency bands, and the user can choose different saturation models to affect those bands.
- The Fabfilter Saturn plugin also provides visual feedback through a spectrum. This allows users to learn what the plugin is doing in specific areas.
- As I told you above, the Saturn plugin gives 6 bands, and for these 6 bands, it offers separate controls(drive, mix, feedback, dynamics) to process them.
- This plugin allows you to apply distortion or saturation rhythmically using the LFOs and XY controllers.
- Fabfilter Saturn 2 also provides mid-side processing.
- This plugin has a friendly interface, but it has many functionalities that may require some time to learn.
- The GUI of these Plugins is resizable.
- You can also represent this Plugin on the full screen in the full-screen mode.
- Fabfilter Saturn also provides the 8x oversampling and 32x oversampling modes to reduce the artifacts.
Here is the Visual representation of this Plugin
Uses and Application of the Fabfilter Pro Bundle:
Here are the uses and applications of this Saturn 2.Vintage Character :
The old studio gears inspire this Plugin, so the user can use this Plugin in his mix to add that analog flavor to his sound.
Lo-Fi sound design :
This Plugin also offers aggressive distortion, which I call the crunch in the music production terminology. Users can add analog crunch to their sound. This is more favorable when designing the Lofi sounds by applying that crunch on different sounds like the keys, pianos, etc.
Vocal Processing :
Users can apply subtle warmth to vocals to add richness to the sound. This can also be done on the entire mix to boost its quality.
Mastering :
The mastering engineers apply that subtle saturation on the master channel to make the song a little louder and add air to the mix.
Fabfilter Limiter :
The Fabfilter Limiter plugin is commonly known as the Pro L 2. Here is what it offers.
Drag and Drop modulation capabilities are also available in this fab filter plugin bundle.
As the name shows, it is a limiter plugin. Limiter plugins are used to control the track’s loudness and functions.
This Plugin handles the over and intersampling peaks in the mix.
Fabfilter Limiter offers eight different algorithms to process the sound. All these algorithms have other characters to process the sound.
Some of them are designed to give a transparent limit to what is used while mastering a song. Some of them are designed to provide an aggressive limiting effect to make any sound punchy.
Fabfilter Limiter is compatible with a wide range of loudness metering, such as the BU R128 and ITU-R BS.1770-4. This can help the user know the loudness requirements for different channels.
Attack and release controls are also present in this Plugin, which lets the user preserve or crush the sound’s transients.
Fabfilter limiter also offers the 32x oversampling to reduce the artifacts that may occur in digital processing.
Uses and Applications:
Increasing loudness:
The primary purpose of the limiter plugins is to increase the loudness of the overall input signal. This is used to master a song. The fab filter pro bundle limiter boosts the signal without crushing the transients.
Level Control and Peak Prevention:
This Plugin also helps the user prevent unwanted distortion of his mix.
Technical Details & System Requirements
- Developer: FabFilter
- Format : SAL, VST, VST3, AAX(MOD), CLAP
- Bit depth: 32bit, 64bit
- System requirements: Windows 7 or higher
- Size: 279.1 MB
