After understanding Gulffoss, soon it became one of my favourite tools in mixing & mastering(always using it in little doses). Check the 2 filters where you can exclude areas of the spectrum. Well said man, it's not Snake Oil! Thanks!
You can use both tame and recovery at the same time. That's why there is a BIAS control there. It biases in border cases between taming or recovering frequencies (Exactly what it says in the manual). You also didn't explore the filters that limit the operation range of the plugin. Soundtheory have also said on Gearslutz that they are making a "pro" version of this thing with a lot more control.
I find a little goes a long way with Gullfoss - I often just use the tame setting - about +15 to 20%...on most material it just opens everything up and sounds better...
I absolutely love watching your reviews. I hate cracking manuals at times, but - understanding a few basic principles of any interface before one twists virtual knobs (or sliders) will help tremendously.
I only discovered this today and I'm amazed. EQ'ing is the hardest part for me, especially dynamic EQ, and this sucker does all the dirtiest work on its own. Exciting times. I had to come and search for the Snake Oil episode, I knew it would have one.
I LOVE GULLFOSS!!! The best tip in using this GREAT plugin is don't listen to the manual when they say it should be the 1st plugin on your mastering chain....NO...it should be the last plugin on your master buss chain. This plugin is a dynamic EQ really and it cleans everything up nicely.
Ha! @ 1:20 is why I love this channel. That cut to the full screen of you saying "I'm neither of those" with that genuinely confused look on your face was so well done. Hilarious! Great info, your gut instincts are usually pretty right on, I've discovered a gem or two (this one is giving me plugin lust!), learned a lot, and get great entertainment value. Definitely on my list for Patreon as soon as I'm able to do that on the 1st. Will have to start small, but will increase my contribution as I'm able to start doing more work again. A+
@White Sea Studio Actually, you have control over it. Left and right in the graph are red borders. You can drag them to limit the frequency range (band) affected. e.g. only 500 to 2000Hz. Now, set your settings for this range. If you need another band modified, add another plugin instance in row. So you can have as many Gulffoss EQ's as you want and multi-band is perfectly possible.
And wow, then the thing becomes powerful... limit frequency range from 20Hz to somewhat 90Hz, Tame 50%, Brighten -10% and Boost 6dB and wait for a kick. Wow. It leaves the mix "as is", until the bass signal comes it. Only boosts a signal when it is playing (realtime). I start to understand what the thing is doing.. you could do the same thing with a standard EQ, but you would need to automate it. It also balances the mix... so when the bass is boosted it also levels the other frequencies to keep "sounding good"... interesting. Seems to have a psychoacoustic model in it's algo
I like to mix the tame and the recover parameters together, one biased against the other. I have never gone beyond 20% in any direction on any parameter.
I recently saw this plugin being demonstrated on another TH-cam channel. There are horizontal sliding controls on either side that allow you to narrow the range of affected frequencies or something like that.
This thing is more acting like Sonible Smart EQ (which i own). When you click the magic staff on that EQ it does the same handling at first site.. Although you got more and immediate control with Smart EQ, and better results..
The main difference that I see between Smart EQ and this EQ is that this EQ is constantly adjusting itself in real time to the content. Smart EQ makes one analysis and executes a static answer that you can dial in from.
Completely different beasts if you ask me( and I have both, even the latest version 2 and the LIVE version). Gulffoss uses a model of the cochlea to shape the sound , I can't find any reference to a model in Smart-EQ just "presets" for certain types of instrument or vocals that are then "strived for" by the dynamic eq part, but maybe that's hidden somewhere in Sonibles Webpages or manuals... But it is in no way the 100 times per second that Gullfoss does its measurements ( and keeps doing it, like with Smart-EQ LIVE, but I can't find how often a second...). I think the basic difference however is in the AI model behind the two. My results with Gullfoss are way better than with Smart-EQ , which I found remarkable at the time and bought them all.
Glad to see you did a video on this. I'd like to think I was the first one to suggest it to you. If I understand it correctly, the BIAS should get you closer to what you want to control, but also as someone else has already mentioned, you might like to look into the Sonible Smart EQ too.
How does this compare to the Sculpture module in Neutron 3? Are they basically the same thing? Does this plugin makes sense to get if I have Neutron 3?
Was just thinking you might be able to use three (or however many bands you want) instances of this, utilizing the low and hi cut/pass filters so that for example instance 1 was filtered to only effect material from 0Hz to 5kHz, the second instance filtered to only effect 5Kz to 10kHz, and the third 10kHz to 20kHz. That might be a workaround for the frequency band/eq curve manual manipulation, etc. Outstanding plug-in regardless though.
hahaha I like how you can recognise and step back - intro "I'm not gonna read the manual, leave if you don't like it" minute 5.01 "ok where's the bloddy manual?" hahaha
It’s “Gullfoss” instead of Gulffoss, not the biggest problem in the world but maybe to be found by search engines and such you might want to edit the video title. Your video introduced me to the plugin btw so big thanks for that!
My problem after fiddling with the demo yesterday, having some great results and one spectacular disaster (it matters more than regular eqs where in the chain Gulfoss is), is should I just get better and better at EQ or give it up and become a Gulfoss expert? I’m leaning towards EQ as a more translatable skill.
Not only for bass and treble, but also for a band. You can achieve this by moving the low-frequency range selector over the high-frequency one, which will exclude the range between the two from processing.
Bro!I love your review videos!!:)you do an excellent job of explaining what each plugin is doing and you had me laughing so hard twards the end when you said "dam this is pretty good!"lol!that was great!I watched it three times just to see your reaction from that part! definitely put a smile on my face because I do the exact same thing when I like a plug-in I'm useing for the first time!:))😁😃great review sir and much love!:) 💯
There actually is more control. Check this out (especially the part on 7:14).. you can determine an area in the freq spec that you want to adjust while leaving the rest alone. th-cam.com/video/2GiKzfOj04w/w-d-xo.html
I liked your review of Gullfoss, and think your suggested eq feature would indeed make it more useful for me. Just wondering if you could review the Waves Studio 3 plugin. I'm trying it out and am not being overwhelmed with it, although it has rave reviews. Thanks for the R&D!
Nembrini all the way! Sounds better to my ears (I just installed it in PT) and while they copied the design the also got rid of the useless controls like 'Noise' 'Sample Rate' and 'Anti-Alias' that only complicated the AVID version for no reason. Most importantly, the added 'Volume' control of the Nembrini version is very useful. I expected to see a Wet/Dry control as well like the Nembrini version of the Sans-Amp PSA-1 (called PSA 1000) has. But maybe they wanted to keep it as simple as possible which makes a lot of sense. The PSA-1000 lets you distort in a very precise and versatile way. The LOFi Clipper on the other hand is quick and dirty - and great.
I would like to see you do the octavox and some of the other plugin's with the slate bundle... I'm interested in the ones that are not a straight emulation but still have a analog interface. They looked interesting... although I agree on the analog looki a like interface thing .. but then as someone with no much money, they are some what of a comfort to see on the screen... once I have these in real life they are going to drive me mad. Plugin's should come with skins and you can decide when you want it to look analog or when you want it plain
their problem was showing you too much... plugin's that do a similar thing usually wouldn't show what it's doing... once you see it you want to be able to adjust it... other plugin's like this have like two knobs max and a few clicky leavers in some analog looking interface
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hey bro i love your style and contribution to the community but sometimes i feel like you start your videos without getting deeper in the product/topic and missing some detials that may would be important to form an opinion. at least for me. also you are handsome have a nice day
I must say...I don't know why I should listen to this guy but he has a very hoi polloi appeal. His approach, why bother with a manual, reminds me of myself. Don't know why, but I keep coming back...
Gullfoss maybe is the best and most usefull plugin I ever bought!
After understanding Gulffoss, soon it became one of my favourite tools in mixing & mastering(always using it in little doses). Check the 2 filters where you can exclude areas of the spectrum. Well said man, it's not Snake Oil! Thanks!
Check the red line on the left & right side, it should allow you to limit the gullfoss range. (low & high freq)
You can use both tame and recovery at the same time. That's why there is a BIAS control there. It biases in border cases between taming or recovering frequencies (Exactly what it says in the manual). You also didn't explore the filters that limit the operation range of the plugin. Soundtheory have also said on Gearslutz that they are making a "pro" version of this thing with a lot more control.
Niklas Silen at $150 this should be the Pro version
I find a little goes a long way with Gullfoss - I often just use the tame setting - about +15 to 20%...on most material it just opens everything up and sounds better...
I absolutely love watching your reviews. I hate cracking manuals at times, but - understanding a few basic principles of any interface before one twists virtual knobs (or sliders) will help tremendously.
You can drag your pointer to create a low pass or high pas filter so Gullfoss won't affect the low and high frequencies 😉
I only discovered this today and I'm amazed. EQ'ing is the hardest part for me, especially dynamic EQ, and this sucker does all the dirtiest work on its own. Exciting times. I had to come and search for the Snake Oil episode, I knew it would have one.
I LOVE GULLFOSS!!! The best tip in using this GREAT plugin is don't listen to the manual when they say it should be the 1st plugin on your mastering chain....NO...it should be the last plugin on your master buss chain. This plugin is a dynamic EQ really and it cleans everything up nicely.
i have two eqs (1073 then pro q) ssl comp then this then limiter last, so not last, but def not first i agree with that
I don't care what anyone says, I'm calling it Gullfloss.
I love the sounds he makes while testing all these plugins
I use Gulfoss and i love it
It is an awesome plugin. I'm also so proud of you for reading the manual. Great review!
I don’t understand Facebook to this day.
Hey i am a huge snake oil fan and this one was very helpful. Thanks for it!
Ha! @ 1:20 is why I love this channel. That cut to the full screen of you saying "I'm neither of those" with that genuinely confused look on your face was so well done. Hilarious! Great info, your gut instincts are usually pretty right on, I've discovered a gem or two (this one is giving me plugin lust!), learned a lot, and get great entertainment value. Definitely on my list for Patreon as soon as I'm able to do that on the 1st. Will have to start small, but will increase my contribution as I'm able to start doing more work again. A+
hehe very good contribution, as always what I find really funny is that you could have looked at the instructions msan could also cutten .. thx
@White Sea Studio Actually, you have control over it. Left and right in the graph are red borders. You can drag them to limit the frequency range (band) affected. e.g. only 500 to 2000Hz. Now, set your settings for this range. If you need another band modified, add another plugin instance in row. So you can have as many Gulffoss EQ's as you want and multi-band is perfectly possible.
And wow, then the thing becomes powerful... limit frequency range from 20Hz to somewhat 90Hz, Tame 50%, Brighten -10% and Boost 6dB and wait for a kick. Wow. It leaves the mix "as is", until the bass signal comes it. Only boosts a signal when it is playing (realtime). I start to understand what the thing is doing.. you could do the same thing with a standard EQ, but you would need to automate it. It also balances the mix... so when the bass is boosted it also levels the other frequencies to keep "sounding good"... interesting. Seems to have a psychoacoustic model in it's algo
I like to mix the tame and the recover parameters together, one biased against the other. I have never gone beyond 20% in any direction on any parameter.
I recently saw this plugin being demonstrated on another TH-cam channel. There are horizontal sliding controls on either side that allow you to narrow the range of affected frequencies or something like that.
Did you another video of Gullfoss as you said on this video?
you should use the red lines on the left and right to control the frequencies that are effected
Thank you, very helpful!
I really respect what you teach. Thanks a lot.
This thing is more acting like Sonible Smart EQ (which i own). When you click the magic staff on that EQ it does the same handling at first site.. Although you got more and immediate control with Smart EQ, and better results..
I think the same...I like Smart EQ because you can do your fine adjustment after, so I use as a guide but then I can still follow my EQ idea
The main difference that I see between Smart EQ and this EQ is that this EQ is constantly adjusting itself in real time to the content. Smart EQ makes one analysis and executes a static answer that you can dial in from.
Completely different beasts if you ask me( and I have both, even the latest version 2 and the LIVE version). Gulffoss uses a model of the cochlea to shape the sound , I can't find any reference to a model in Smart-EQ just "presets" for certain types of instrument or vocals that are then "strived for" by the dynamic eq part, but maybe that's hidden somewhere in Sonibles Webpages or manuals... But it is in no way the 100 times per second that Gullfoss does its measurements ( and keeps doing it, like with Smart-EQ LIVE, but I can't find how often a second...). I think the basic difference however is in the AI model behind the two. My results with Gullfoss are way better than with Smart-EQ , which I found remarkable at the time and bought them all.
Gibt es eine deutsche Anleitung von Gullfoss
Best plugin EVER!!!!
It is a complex dynamic eq. That is it.
Glad to see you did a video on this. I'd like to think I was the first one to suggest it to you. If I understand it correctly, the BIAS should get you closer to what you want to control, but also as someone else has already mentioned, you might like to look into the Sonible Smart EQ too.
Interesting video as always! Thumbs up
Whenever you start your videos I always feel you're about to jump out of my monitor ;)
How does this compare to the Sculpture module in Neutron 3? Are they basically the same thing? Does this plugin makes sense to get if I have Neutron 3?
Was just thinking you might be able to use three (or however many bands you want) instances of this, utilizing the low and hi cut/pass filters so that for example instance 1 was filtered to only effect material from 0Hz to 5kHz, the second instance filtered to only effect 5Kz to 10kHz, and the third 10kHz to 20kHz. That might be a workaround for the frequency band/eq curve manual manipulation, etc. Outstanding plug-in regardless though.
hahaha I like how you can recognise and step back - intro "I'm not gonna read the manual, leave if you don't like it" minute 5.01 "ok where's the bloddy manual?" hahaha
Will be interesting to see how this compares to Intensity from Zynaptic on the intelligent EQ front. (Intensity does a few other things too)
There is a range control apparently
This one looks awesome
It is time for a follow up …...
Would you prefer this or Neutron 3?
This will be 35% off from 11/30-12/3 for cyber Monday for all interested!
My gosh you sound exactly the same as Max from Auto Top Nl on YT! That’s uncanny
Can it be compared to Izotope Neutron? Does this plugin work better?
It’s “Gullfoss” instead of Gulffoss, not the biggest problem in the world but maybe to be found by search engines and such you might want to edit the video title. Your video introduced me to the plugin btw so big thanks for that!
Where’s the follow up video?
I still don't understand Facebook.
You never did do another review as you said you would after using it for few months. Did you end up not using it ?
Hmm, this is on my wish list for sure!
For me a goto in the master channel. Great
I saw a DnB producer raving about this a couple months ago. Nice to see a different opinion on it.
Ricc Recco who ?
My problem after fiddling with the demo yesterday, having some great results and one spectacular disaster (it matters more than regular eqs where in the chain Gulfoss is), is should I just get better and better at EQ or give it up and become a Gulfoss expert? I’m leaning towards EQ as a more translatable skill.
You can change things which should not be altered, possible for bass and high frequencies.
Not only for bass and treble, but also for a band. You can achieve this by moving the low-frequency range selector over the high-frequency one, which will exclude the range between the two from processing.
Hofa DDP is a nice 'final touch' plugin you could investigate. Thanks
Perfect Preview Review. Looking forward to an in-depth...or did you already do that? (Pssst...I did buy it :-) )
Bro!I love your review videos!!:)you do an excellent job of explaining what each plugin is doing and you had me laughing so hard twards the end when you said "dam this is pretty good!"lol!that was great!I watched it three times just to see your reaction from that part! definitely put a smile on my face because I do the exact same thing when I like a plug-in I'm useing for the first time!:))😁😃great review sir and much love!:) 💯
There actually is more control. Check this out (especially the part on 7:14).. you can determine an area in the freq spec that you want to adjust while leaving the rest alone. th-cam.com/video/2GiKzfOj04w/w-d-xo.html
Have you reviewed Leapwing DynOne and Sonible Smart:EQ2 yet? Interested to hear your take on those.
I found it! Seems like an amazing plugin
You ‘found’ it?
@@greedokenobi3855 I'm not sure myself now, must have found something though ;-)
I liked your review of Gullfoss, and think your suggested eq feature would indeed make it more useful for me. Just wondering if you could review the Waves Studio 3 plugin. I'm trying it out and am not being overwhelmed with it, although it has rave reviews. Thanks for the R&D!
I love Sandstorm by Darude 😂
can you do SKNOTE plugins?
second video i seen on this and very impressive!
Reaper has its own built in soundtheory analyzer.
What is it called?
gullfoss, not gulfoss. probably named after the waterfall in iceland
LMAO the darude sandstorm joke hahahahaha
Nembrini all the way! Sounds better to my ears (I just installed it in PT) and while they copied the design the also got rid of the useless controls like 'Noise' 'Sample Rate' and 'Anti-Alias' that only complicated the AVID version for no reason. Most importantly, the added 'Volume' control of the Nembrini version is very useful. I expected to see a Wet/Dry control as well like the Nembrini version of the Sans-Amp PSA-1 (called PSA 1000) has. But maybe they wanted to keep it as simple as possible which makes a lot of sense. The PSA-1000 lets you distort in a very precise and versatile way. The LOFi Clipper on the other hand is quick and dirty - and great.
I would like to see you do the octavox and some of the other plugin's with the slate bundle... I'm interested in the ones that are not a straight emulation but still have a analog interface. They looked interesting... although I agree on the analog looki a like interface thing .. but then as someone with no much money, they are some what of a comfort to see on the screen... once I have these in real life they are going to drive me mad. Plugin's should come with skins and you can decide when you want it to look analog or when you want it plain
their problem was showing you too much... plugin's that do a similar thing usually wouldn't show what it's doing... once you see it you want to be able to adjust it... other plugin's like this have like two knobs max and a few clicky leavers in some analog looking interface
This video made me buy it.
Alt + Enter = reset dials.
the buy now button dont work for me on their website
You probably have an ad-blocker running that prevents the overlay from showing. We're trying to find out why this is happening, but for now, you can just disable the ad-blocker or white-list the site.
You can just put A Fab-Filter on the same insert and adjust the frequencies using both!
You can get this plugin for 99$ with their academic discount!
Gullfoss over Soothe2 or not? Btw snakeoil is een zalige serie! Groeten vanuit België
Guess you didn’t get a license?
That's a forward-looking automatic multipoint tilt EQ... Sound Radix's Surfer EQ does that better (and does alos what Soothe does)
Nice series. Please do a Snake Oil video about... Snake Oil.
i love you crazy enthusiastic sound geek.. :) i never heard so simply opening eq control for any instrument..
Yes it's useful
spiff is snakeoil
watchin a dude waitin for a plug to happen... awesome
do i have a problem w analog snobs? ya.
Great video. It means something I feel if you like it!
It's does a great job, used in small doses.
Use more jungle music!
@Wytse again damaged your fingernail??
150 euros for a ai to auto- eq ur music.. thats pricey
Check out some Sonimus stuff.
you spelled it wrong.
i expected darude sandstorm
hey bro i
love your style and contribution to the community but sometimes i feel like you start your videos without getting deeper in the product/topic and missing some detials that may would be important to form an opinion. at least for me. also you are handsome
have a nice day
use different plugins then you have a rich sound
Plz do Joey Sturgis Plugins
I must say...I don't know why I should listen to this guy but he has a very hoi polloi appeal. His approach, why bother with a manual, reminds me of myself. Don't know why, but I keep coming back...
the difference is very subtle. it's not mind blowing and game changing like everyone is making it out to be.
Just FYI Gullfoss has two L's.
I have and I didn't find much difference, no, it's not magic as they say
seems to be an EQ repair for a poorly mixed track. Maybe mix your track better in the first place?
Or just let this thing do the mixing
Acustica Color EQ
first impression : bad user interface
Stick with Fabfilter you have control of what you are doing !Patent smatent show me.
AJ Booster comparing two different things bro