The sheer precision with which you can manipulate and shape the bands allows me to meticulously sculpt the tonality of my masters. For this application, the Pro-Q 3 is outstanding. This process helps to preserve headroom - a precious commodity when squeezing as much volume as possible out of a track via compression and limiting, and of course, creates a tonally balanced and pleasing listening experience. Upon receiving a mix to master, I first hunt down and attenuate unwanted or overly prominent areas of the frequency spectrum. Oftentimes when mastering, I’m concerned with hiding sonic deficiencies present in mixes as much as embellishing their strengths. Mastering is the art and science of optimizing program material for distribution, and one of the key roles of a mastering engineer is preparing music for listening over a wide variety of playback configurations. For the purposes of reducing unwanted low resonances, harshness or sibilance, the Pro-Q 3 is unrivaled thanks to the dynamic EQ feature. So if the frequency-based content in your lines become problematic, but only during certain passages, the moments that are not problematic won’t be affected, whatsoever. If the plugin doesn’t detect that the threshold has been crossed, no processing is applied.
The dynamic EQ allows you to set a threshold at the per-band level.
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Perhaps the biggest update to the Pro-Q 3 is the dynamic EQ mode - and this feature will prove to be quite useful to dialog editors. If a line is still a tad bright, nasally, boxy or deficient in any way after applying EQ match, the ability to quickly generate and manipulate additional bands allows me to finish the job. While I’ve never found any plugins’ EQ match feature to present the be-all end-all solution to balancing the frequency-based content in different lines of dialog, the tool found on the Pro-Q 3 is quite serviceable, and I find it great for getting me a percentage of the way there. It can be incredibly challenging to balance the fidelity of on-set lines with the ones that were recorded in a controlled environment, but the Pro-Q 3 has some incredibly useful features for this particular application. For lines that simply can’t be salvaged, we resort to ADR or “automatic/automated dialog replacement” which involves getting the actor(s) into a studio and re-recording the irreparable lines. It’s entirely possible that each of these sonic maladies (and more) are present over the course of the production, and the role of the dialog editor is to create a fluid dialog track that never feels jumpy or distracting. Perhaps some distant highway rumble made it onto the recording, or the microphone was slightly off-axis from the performer as they delivered their lines, or noisy preamps were used on the day(s) of shooting. There are many factors that could have rendered the captured on-set dialog sounding less than optimal.
Dialog EditingĪ clear, natural, believable dialog track is absolutely essential when working on audio for visual media. Here are some of the many applications for which the FabFilter Pro-Q 3 can be used. Improved Spectrum Grab which provides valuable visual information about the problematic areas of the frequency spectrum and the ability to quickly fix problems.Ĭombine these helpful new features with what was already under the hood in the powerful Pro-Q 2, and you’ve got arguably the most versatile equalizer plugin on the market.External spectrum visualization from other instances of Pro-Q 3 which allows you to see how different elements from your session are interacting and perhaps conflicting.Per-band Mid/Side processing, which allows for extremely detailed sonic-shaping capabilities across the stereo field.
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Its predecessor, the Pro-Q 2, was already an incredible tool that I’ve used on virtually every session, and the latest iteration of the plugin added some extremely valuable features including:
FabFilter recently released the Pro-Q 3 - an update to their flagship equalizer plugin.
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