Fabfilter Pro L2 Limiter - Advanced Walkthrough

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00:00 Intro
00:42 BEFORE USING PRO L2 - Gain Staging and Clipping Overview
02:30 BEFORE USING PRO L2 - Leave enough Headroom
03:20 Fabfilter Pro L2 - TUTORIAL BEGINS
03:55 Unity Gain Function (Matching Loudness)
05:18 Metering - Absolute Metering (LUFS)
08:00 Metering - Relative Metering
08:32 "Advanced Folder" - Styles (Modern, Aggresive, Allround, Transparent, Punchy, Bus, Safe)
11:27 "Advanced Folder" - True Peak Metering and Limiting
12:12 "Advanced Folder" - Oversampling
12:50 "Advanced Folder" - Attack
14:06 "Advanced Folder" - Release
14:48 "Advanced Folder" - Channel Linking - Transients
15:54 "Advanced Folder" - Channel Linking - Release
16:33 "Advanced Folder" - Lookahead
18:00 "Hack" - using Presets to learn about the settings
19:00 Dither

Hey guys, this is a tutorial explaining the advanced functions of fabfilters pro L2 Limiter.

The reason I made this video was to demystify all the features of the limiter, including what the attack and release do, all the different sound types as well as understanding metering.

This limiter really has it all, and I want to help you guys unleash its power.

Do you use this limiter? What experiences do you have with it? Or are you someone who is thinking of buying? Regardless I hope that this vide can help you with your decision and improve your overall mastering.

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The first im going to talk about is NOT talking about Fabfilters limiter, but talk about someone you need to do to prepare for mastering and that is gain staging and making sure there is no clipping. I highly recommend you check out my other video on gain staging and clipping up here. NOW this video is indexed so if you dont want to hear about this (and I recommend you do), then you can skip to the tutorial.

There is no point mastering if your mix is in the red - IE ITS CLIPPING. I will breifly explain what I mean.

There are three places where your mix can clip. The most obvious is the master. and its easy to see in Ableton, because the signal becomes RED.

The next place is on each track, once again, its easy to see because the signal is RED there too.

Then finally, within your FX chain for each track you could go in the red there too.

BUT whats really important is to check each element of the FX chain. Because, if you say, have one plug in which causes clipping OR distortion, you can "hide" that distortion on the next plugin in the chain. Heres an example using OTT which is a common offender. you can see here that OTT is causing clipping, but there is a compressor that reduces the signal, so that clipping is not visible in the track or on the master, but actually that clipping signal is there and sounds terrible.

So in order to get the most out of the Fabfilter limiter, make sure there is no clipping anywhere first, and second make sure you have enough "HEAD ROOM" to play with.

Head room just means you have VOLUME that allows you to make the master punchier, if you only say leave 1 DB of headroom, that punchiness will only go up 1 DB for example before clipping, so it takes away from the power of the master.

A trick to get around this if your mixes are very loud is to select ALL tracks in the mix and reduce by 5 DB, which gives you some nice headroom, you can even do more than that if you want, because on the limiter you can then increase the gain.

Sorry I spent so much time NOT talking about PRO L2, but its REALLY important to understand these concepts first otherwise no mastering tool will help you!

So once your mix is gain staged and has no clipping, FINALLY we can get into the tutorial.