hey what's going on out there I'm Sean Divine hope you all are doing well in this tutorial I
am really excited to share with you a new plugin that is a collaboration between kazrog and the
legendary Avalon design they've brought you the Avalon VT 747 SP in plug-in form a lot of you are
familiar with the Avalon 737 SP legendary input processor mono vocal processor it's
used in a lot of different Studios I have one here in front of me you may not be as familiar
with the 747 which is a stereo processor can be used on stems it can be used on your stereo bus
it's a great mastering tool it's been a secret weapon of grammy-winning Engineers for decades
full disclosure this is a sponsored tutorial however as with all the videos on my channel
I don't cover any products and services that I don't actually use in my own work
and recommend so let's go ahead and dive in all right let's take a listen to the 747 on
the stereo bus this is just a quick preset that I've dialed in you're going to see me
just bypass the plugin with this button here when it's enabled this Vu meter will illuminate
this could be my last song my plans gone it's non-stop content No Nonsense what planet you
been on feel like nobody's listening I stay true to the mission love this music since the beginning
now they invest in my vision crafting beats with Precision inspired many from a distance
while they act like I'm privileged I put in work about my business all right so obviously that 747
on the stereo bus gave our dull mix a lot of life it gave us a lot of richness fatness smoothness
musicality now let's talk about what what's going on under the hood what is the 747 made up of it's
really just two main modules and that is going to be an optical compressor we now have a side chain
Contour mode I'll show you how this works but essentially we have two bands that we can finally
Focus the compressor on so if you want to do surgical moves with this compressor on your stereo
bus for instance if you want to do de-essing on two track processing we can do that now of course
the Avalon is based on vacuum tube technology there were three vacuum tubes in the hardware and
Kazrog has meticulously modeled those you can turn that on and off here with our tsp button and if
you turn it off you're just going to get a cleaner result this is going to be your class a discrete
transistor path there but if you want to get the fatness the richness the harmonics of the tube
saturation you want to leave that on and that is my preference here now on the other side we have
these sliders for six different bands and this is a passive EQ which means you're going to get a lot
of really smooth musical results so this bottom shelf on the EQ is 15 Hertz the next one here is
125 Hertz this is 500 Hertz we have 2K 5K and then finally we have that signature Avalon air band at
32k which is one of my absolute favorite sounds in an EQ it's extremely recognizable you've heard
it used on the 737 but now using it on the stereo bus it's become one of my favorite eqs period for
the producers out there I'd be willing to bet that the 747 once you try it out it will live on your
stereo bus give your Beats your instrumentals some Competitive Edge so let's just do just that we've
got an initial preset and then we're going to dial in some settings here on the compressor in the EQ
so a night and day difference there you know the tone the Sonic character
of this with the vacuum tube emulation it's just a whole different thing initializing
on our lead rap vocal let's go ahead and mix this with the 747.
this could be my last song my plans gone it's non-stop content No Nonsense what planet you've
been on feel like nobody's listening I stay true to the mission love this music since the beginning
now they invest in my vision crafting beats with Precision inspired many from a distance
while they act like I'm privileged I put in work about my business pray to God as my witness I'm
feeling slightly uplifted gave me mercy during my missteps and I failed to admit it important
thing to note with the threshold controls is that these are like any other compressor if you
lower the threshold you're actually going to be introducing more compression as that signal goes
above that so rather than thinking you're turning this clockwise to get a boost or to focus it more
on this frequency actually we're going to be turning it backwards or lowering the threshold
for it to focus more on these frequencies so if you turn it all the way back that's
saying you know put more energy into compressing that frequency there reignited my passion when I
was at my lowest losing focus try to keep the rent paid true love it don't fade but I'm screaming out
most days how do we handle this pain no freedom in the toxins he saved me so I'm locked in let's go
so that's the compression dialed in you'll notice that I brought back the threshold on the Contour
at about 6K and it's really nice to do this on a vocal stem but also you can do this on your master
bus really fine tune that Optical compressor if you've got some sibilance problems in the two
track itself moving over to the EQ this could be my last song my plans gone it's non-stop content
No Nonsense what planet you've been on feel like nobody's listening I stay true to the mission love
this music since the beginning now they invest in my vision crafting beats with Precision Inspire
many from a distance while they act like I'm privileged I put in work about my business
pray to God as my witness I'm feeling slightly uplifted gave me mercy during my missteps and I
failed to admit it this could be my last song my plans gone it's non-stop content No Nonsense what
planet you been on feel like nobody's listening I stay true to the mission love this music
since the beginning now they invest in my vision crafting beats with Precision inspired many from
a distance while they act like I'm privileged I put in work about my business pray to God as
my witness I'm feeling slightly uplifted gave me mercy during my missteps and I failed to admit it
so this is very reminiscent of the sound for me of tracking with the 737 and just getting that tube
saturation and some of those harmonics and the fatness so a lot of you out there who may not be
able to afford the 737 having this you've got more flexibility but also you can track with it just
by going in here and if we set our oversampling that's what this this quality setting is if you
set this to draft that will give us a real-time latency of a whopping zero samples which means
you can track with it without any delay put that as the only plug-in on your input and then you can
utilize the compressor the optical compressor as well as that passive EQ and the tube processing
in here to get an excellent front end for vocal recording all right y'all so that is the all new
Avalon VT 747 SP plug-in from Kazrog and Avalon Design I'm really excited about this one because
the 747 Hardware has always been that piece that I've enjoyed I've heard it on a lot of Records
I've heard a lot of my favorite Engineers using it it's been in the studios and it's just not
something I was able to get my hands on so having it now being able to utilize this 32k band on a
stereo signal really exciting and then also just the flexibility of the compressor section and the
tubes in here it's really really nice to use this just as a bus compressor and a bus EQ give your
mix some life before going into you know something like a maximizer if you want to check out some of
the presets that you heard you'll find them in the factory bank and if you want to pick up the
studio rack presets that have the 747 added to them that I used in this session I'm going to
put links to those in the description as well so I hope you all enjoy the 747 SP if you have
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