FabFilter Pro-R 2 Explained

Come along on a detailed overview of FabFilter's Pro-R 2 with studio guru Eli Krantzberg and hear how the impressive feature set of this reverb plug-in can take your productions to new heights and cavernous depths. You'll learn about all the parameters, from the most pedestrian to the most advanced, so that you'll be able to make musical use of everything this plug-in has to offer. These FabFilter Pro-R 2 videos are designed for new Pro-R 2 users.

Videos

• Pro-R 2 JumpStart (04:27) - Get a quick flyover of the interface and learn where all the main features and functions are located.

• Dialing in a Sound: The Basics (05:21) - Learn how to quickly get your main reverb sound in place using the Space, Distance, and Brightness knobs, along with the three character choices.

• Tweaking the Reverb Character (08:00) - Explore the character, thickness, pre-delay, width, and ducking knobs and hear how they influence the character of the reverb.

• Freeze & Auto Gate (04:08) - Hear how these two features, new to Pro R2, affect the duration of the reverb tail.

• Decay Rate EQ (06:25) - Learn how to freely shape the reverb decay rate over the frequency spectrum using up to six bell, high/low shelf, or notch curves.

• Post Reverb EQ (06:07) - Six flexible post-reverb EQ bands are available and are automatically gain-adjusted to compensate for EQ changes so that you don?t have to manually adjust mix or send levels while tweaking the reverb sound. Each band can operate either on the stereo field, left/right only, or mid/side only.

• Importing Impulse Responses & Preset Management (07:53) - See how Pro R2 imports and interprets recorded impulse response files and converts them to settings that will match the characteristics of the original space. And learn how to save and navigate the preset browser.

• Surround & Dolby Atmos (04:24) - Discover how to customize which speaker sets and channels are affected by the decay rate and post EQ curves and how to offset the main knob parameter values between front and back speaker sets.

• Spectrum Analyzer & Display Options (04:42) - Learn how to use the spectrum analyzers to get an overview of how the reverb is decaying in different areas of the frequency spectrum, how to use the piano roll view to easily quantize decay rate and post EQ bands to specific musical notes, how to resize the display, show/hide the output metering, and more.

• MIDI Learn (05:14) - See how to remote control Pro R2 parameters from MIDI hardware knobs and sliders.

• Tips & Ideas (07:11) - Explore a couple of creative, unconventional applications of Pro R2 on a lead vocal.