FabFilter

Hi,

I'm in Reaper and trying to send my strings into my bass Q4 to persuade the bass to duck a little when some of the cellos etc. are being masked.

The internet hasn't resolved my confusion here, so this is what I'm doing - wrong?

I have some confusion over the controls also. I have a spectral dynamic cut lined up at around 260k, on the bottom of the plugin on the Bass track. I hover over Analyser tab and the pop-up appears and here I select from the Ext dropdown > Strings.

I click the external sidechain button and it turns blue, but no eq cuts appear in my dynamic eq, I click again and I the cuts show. Which is off and which on? blue?

If I select Strings Bus from the Ext dropdown does that mean Pro Q4 is actually channelling that folder/sound into my Bass EQ for analysis?

I read somewhere online that you actually have to send the Strings signal to the Bass track, not just click the dropdown - is this correct?

Does any of this make any sense at all...?

Hi John,

Can you send us a small video to info@fabfilter.com? It's likely to do with the routing or the plug-in connections inside Reaper. Sometimes it has trouble actually setting extra inputs up as a side-chain rather than additional inputs.

I have an issue in this arena. I'm following the 5Piece YouTube video "How to Fix Frequency Masking with FabFilter's Pro-Q4." I'm targeting a bass and a kick, with the kick dominant. I set up the sidechain on the kick, enable the bass to see the kick's sidechain, pick my frequency for the gain decrease on the bass, choose "Make Spectral" from the dropdown, and expand the window to find that button with the two little arrows. When I click it "blue," which I understand to be on, I get no spectral gain reduction. However, when I click it again, which I understand to be off, I get the bouncing spectral response with gain reduction. Is this a glitch or am I doing something wrong?

Thank you a ton in advance for any help.

Update so that nobody has to waste time replying - it turns out the "issue" is that I'm using Logic Pro, which makes the process even easier than that seen in the video, even for an inveterate technophobe like me. :) I figured it out, and I'm so grateful!