OTT is everywhere. It sounds good, so good you can never even have to tweak the settings. But the territory of different upwards compressors seems rather unexplored.
There are hundreds (thousands?) of traditional compressors, all which have different "sounds" and colors to them, but they're all sort of doing the same thing. But you could set them all up with the same settings, and they'd sound similar, but different as well.
So I want to try and make OTT using Fabfilter Pro-MB. It's capable of upwards compression, so it should be able to.
I'm a little stuck, but here's what I've got so far:
I think you need to use two instances of Pro-MB, one for the upwards and one for the downwards which OTT does all in one. I think the upwards is happening before the downwards in OTT, but ableton manual doesn't seem to say anything about its signal flow.
I copied all the band settings to each instance; the band ranges, thresholds and ratios. As well, assuming the signal flow in ableton MBD is Input->upwards comp->downwards comp->output, I added the input gains the upwards Pro-MB instance and the output gains to the downwards Pro-MB following it.
Here's the main thing I'm confused about. In Pro-MB, to make it do upwards you need to make the "Range" knob positive, the most you can make it is +30db or -30db. Just for the sake of experimenting, I went with +30 on the upwards instance, and -30 on the downwards instance following it. Ableton's MBD doesn't have a range knob, its just set up for the left side to do upwards and the right side to do downwards. This might be the limitation of the Pro-MB, since OTT seems to be able to do more than 30db of upwards compression judging by the gain numbers that appear when you play a sound through.
Overall, I can get a somewhat similar sound from the Pro-MB, in which the sound is evened out and the highend is brought out in a satisfying way, but its nowhere near as good as OTT. It doesn't quite bring out that vowelly crunch that OTT does.
Thoughts? Tips? Ideas?
Submitted February 28, 2017 at 05:27AM by distortionwhat https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/5wmvtc/attempting_to_recreate_ott_in_fabfilters_pro_mb/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Tuesday, February 28, 2017