Cubase Control Room Power Up: Essential Plugins for Monitoring & Processing

In this video I dive into which plugins I've grown to love in the Cubase control room over the years that I've been using it, and what I use them for!
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Table of Contents:
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00:00 Intro
00:37 Cubase control room?
00:57 Control room plugins
01:38 Plugin 1
03:10 Plugin 2
03:58 Plugin 3
04:42 Plugin 4
05:36 Plugin 5
05:59 Plugin 6
07:32 Plugin 7
08:11 Plugin 8?
08:42 Plugin 8 for real
09:37 Pre and post fader slots
10:17 Monitor related plugins
11:49 Disable exclusive assignment
13:12 Outro
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Relevant Links:
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- The Cubase control room - • Cubase 12 control room...
- ADPTR Audio Metric AB - www.plugin-alliance.com/en/pr...
- TBProAudio ISOL8 - www.tbproaudio.de/products/isol8
- ISOL8 video - • Excellent and free: TB...
- Voxengo SPAN - www.voxengo.com/product/span/
- SSL Meter plugin (paid link) - www.pluginboutique.com/produc...
- Klanghelm VUMT - klanghelm.com/contents/produc...
- Youlean Loudness meter - youlean.co/youlean-loudness-m...
- Sonible True Balance (paid link) - www.pluginboutique.com/produc...
- Sonible True Level (paid link) - www.pluginboutique.com/produc...
- Sonible True Balance video - • Sonible true:balance, ...
- SessionWire plugins - www.sessionwire.com/
- Cubase videos playlist - • Cubase
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Gear Used to Make This Video:
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Camera (paid link) - geni.us/fenwfH
Lens (paid link) - geni.us/wuLwBx
Microphone (paid link) - geni.us/L6VJ
Activator (paid link) - geni.us/QV0btW
Mic Arm (paid link) - geni.us/GYyfD2c
Lighting (paid link) - geni.us/3FDnMM
Video editor (paid link) - geni.us/chWtEAl
Display calibration (paid link) - geni.us/TwAqR
Mouse (paid link) - geni.us/dwGar6
Keyboard (paid link) - geni.us/wQoYAm
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Other Studio Gear:
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DAW software (paid link) - geni.us/CjRlex
iOS Microphone (paid link) - geni.us/hPTh
Alternate monitors (paid link) - geni.us/Os8KKI
Audio Interface (paid link) - geni.us/cAqoP
AD/DA Converter (paid link) - geni.us/C7MzC
Analog Compressor 1 (paid link) - geni.us/zxBq7
Analog Compressor 2 (paid link) - geni.us/ioKNN
Analog EQ (paid link) - geni.us/vaYDP
Vocal Microphone (paid link) - geni.us/M8AMSJ
Speaker calibration (paid link USD) - bit.ly/3mi5kjo
Speaker calibration (paid link EUR) - bit.ly/3e5mo7y
Reverb plugin (paid link) - geni.us/V2k6h
Komplete 13 (paid link) - geni.us/GIcIisT
Komplete control (paid link) - geni.us/4jz20g
DJI Mic (paid link) - geni.us/F2pmV
Elgato Stream Deck (paid link) - geni.us/fxx1VF
Tegeler Creme (paid link) - thmn.to/thoprod/364291?partne...
Tegeler Magnetismus 2 (paid link) - thmn.to/thoprod/273479?partne...
SSL UF1 - thmn.to/thoprod/567897?offid=...
Complete Current Gear list - kit.co/LanewoodStudios/home-s...
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Recommended reading:
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The mixing engineer's handbook (paid link) - geni.us/Lhy8
Mixing secrets for the small studio (paid link) - geni.us/EbL0
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[@robertgaudreau2520]

I use Insight and Tonal balance control from iZotope, Decibel from Process Audio, ADPTR MetricAB from Plugin Alliance, Reference and Levels from Mastering the mix, Redline monitor and Sonarworks Reference 4. These tools are very useful to get to the desired target.

[@LanewoodStudios]

Thanks for sharing!

[@jmichaelingram]

I'd love to see your take on A/B plugin use.

[@LanewoodStudios]

Good idea. I’ll put it on the list.

[@svenisaksson3970]

Here's an extra bonus tip for those that actually record live musicians. I always hav a brickwall limiter on the cue sends, sit to kick in at the maximum level I intend to allow. That way, the musician won't run the risk of hearing damage from spikes and other loud nastinesses.

[@LanewoodStudios]

Great tip to add, thanks!

[@nantschev]

Great workflow regarding the Slate VSX, which I also use! Thanks for that.

[@LanewoodStudios]

Yes it’s a great way to use it.

[@sosolegendarybeats]

Thanks man

[@LanewoodStudios]

Any time

[@bill-sr1vd]

What a great video! I never knew about exclusive assignments Thank you for doing this.I also put a room correction plugin in my control room inserts because you definitely don't want to accidentally have that in your final mix. Is there any way to get a "faster than realtime" LUFS value for a song, so you don't have to play it all the way through in real time to learn the overall integrated LUFS?

[@LanewoodStudios]

You’re welcome! If you have an export of the song you can just drop it into YouLean and it will immediately give you the loudness profile for the whole song.

[@daddydanny5588]

Gr8 vid

[@LanewoodStudios]

🙏

[@jrgroberts]

Mine mostly the same, but in a different order! 😃

[@LanewoodStudios]

Ha ha … yes that can vary of course.

[@tjosselin]

Thanks
any reason for not using the Cubase meters, but preferring additional meters within the control room ?

[@LanewoodStudios]

They provide just that little extra for me, but the Cubase metering is also quite extensive by now of course.

[@murraywebster1228]

Have you tried SPL Hawkeye for metering?

[@LanewoodStudios]

No never even heard of it. I’ll check it out.

[@balaftuna]

Hi. I see that we both have RME with Cubase. I wonder if you could do a video about something that I'm struggling with - I would like to share my desktop (with Cubase) in real time via Zoom. I set loopback, set Zoom to musicians mode, but still can't get it to work. cheers.

[@LanewoodStudios]

Hi, well I’m not using zoom very much so unsure what musicians mode does in there. But if I wanted a more elaborate setup for remote meetings for doing lessons or something like that, I would just use OBS’ virtual camera feature. It basically provides the output of OBS as a camera that you can use in Zoom or any other tool, and you can then use OBS to decide what should be visible in that camera view. And you can fully tune that to what you want to show, switch scenes, etc.

[@balaftuna]

@@LanewoodStudios Thanks! Guess I cannot avoid OBS :)

[@LanewoodStudios]

@@balaftuna give it a try for ultimate flexibility.

[@mikeraphone785]

Wouldn't the built in supervision do most of this in one plugin ?

[@LanewoodStudios]

It’s a good plugin but it doesn’t do all of this in the same way. It it’s also what you’re used to of course.