Andrew Scheps' In-Depth Mixing Tips for Scheps Omni Channel
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- čas přidán 11. 04. 2018
- In this in-depth tutorial, mix engineer Andrew Scheps (Adele, Metallica, Jay Z) explores the 'hidden' features of his Omni Channel plugin and shows how you can use them to get great mixes. Learn more: www.waves.com/omni
For more personal tips from Andrew on how to use the Omni Channel, visit www.waves.com/scheps-omni-cha...
0:33 - Preamp: Saturation, Filters, Thump
4:05 - Gate / Expander
7:38 - DS2
9:51 - EQ
13:29 - Compressor
16:23 - ST, DUO, MS modes
19:44 - In/Out section
20:50 - Reordering the modules
21:23 - How to insert additional plugins into the Scheps Omni Channel
22:05 - FOCUS presets
23:21 - Parallel drum distortion
Music: Halloway, “Passerby” - Hudba
Andrew Scheps is a gift to the community. His focus is the plugin, but is unable to avoid teaching about audio engineering as a whole.
Lol, yeah, he's a GENIUS...
i believe they are better in conjunction to explain, esp to a beginner as myself. I wouldnt know wth he would be saying about the plug in if he didnt teach the (why and what).
totally! Even just his segments on various podcasts are so frank and insightful! Love him!
@@alienair1748 That is why I like him - its super easy to catch up with him
Exactly, he doesn't take it for granted and you can imagine he really squeezed everything he could out of the development. Mr Scheps you're a gent!
Andrew Scheps the Gandalf of the mixing world. A wizard.
lol
Anyone can mix a song with waves plugins
Totally lol very nice guy too
@@LilChristo No.
@@LilChristo No.
He's like the Dad we always wanted but never had. Love this guy.
I thought the same xD
Right someone to teach you something 😅
This is the ultimate channel strip. It does everything, but only uses CPU for what you activate. The insert channel makes this better than any other channel strip. Brilliant.
That Focus mode option is luxurious to a curious mind. Breadcrumbs. Delightful.
Has to be the most innovative plugin released for quite some time, I love it, and Andrew Scheps is someone I could listen to for hours and never stop wanting more and more info from him. What a master !
This is by far the best video plugin walkthrough from waves
This has to be the best plugin on earth.
it definitely is.
Yeah, man-- holy shit
Been using it for roughly a year now. Simply the most practical plugin I have ever used. As flexible as it needs to be while staying intuitive, sounds fantastic, incredibly well thought out workflow-wise! It's the centerpiece of every track for me.
I really, really love this plugin. For $29 I feel like I robbed Andrew blind. I’ve been using CLA’s kit of plugins for vocals, drums, etc... and while I’m really happy with what they do on many things, there were some acoustic guitar sounds that I could never get quite right because of the preset eq curves. I tried to tweak with a different EQ going into the CLA, but I just could never get it quite right... maybe because I’m not very good with the graph-style EQs. My eyes take over, and I stop listening properly. Anyway, just a few minutes with Mr. Schep’s channel strip after watching this walkthrough, and I got the exact sounds I wanted. Using the de-esser as single band compressors was absolutely the ticket to taking the mud out of palm muting while leaving the low mids intact during brighter strumming. Thanks Andrew, this is stunning work.
By far the best Channelstrip-plugin ever! Its only the waves update plan that makes the use of this and other good plugins become a little problematic.
This looks like such a great plugin to have on every channel! More as a basic taming of the signal, obviously no FX or flashy stuff, just as a way to get a great sound to work with. Andrew Scheps explains every part so well, that this advert actually ends up being an educational video!! So well done to Waves, well done to Mr Scheps, I'm buying it!!
if Andrew werent the best at mixing i would not mind to listen audio books. his voice is so musical and articulate. Andrew thanks for great channel strip!
That was the clearest explanation of an expander I ever heard. Nice one.
I know right? Lol. Andrew is the MASTER!
Me too
Brilliant as always, Mr. Scheps. Thanks Waves for giving him the outlet to deliver some of his approach to the job. :)
Great tip’s there Andrew. I Have the Omni Channel, and did not realize the hidden Features. Thanks you for the in depth detail.
Can’t thank Waves & Andrew enough for such a well designed channel strip. Much appreciated
I finally snatched this up! Thank you Waves and Andrew Scheps!!!
Great tour of your plugin! That's incredibly well explained and everything make sense... Thanks Andrew.... ;-)
I’m late to the party - I just purchased it this morning and can’t wait to dig deeper into it. So far, it’s fantastic. I can see this as my go-to channel strip. Great stuff.
That song at the end gave me the feels... Sounded like some vintage classic rock!
Very well thought through & clear explanation - brilliant!
Got it few days back for 35€. I'm not about gear and plug-ins at all, but this really awesome. The three compressors and saturations are amazing.
What a wonderfully informative video tutorial on this plugin! Like a free master class from a master of the craft.
I bought this plug in and I am definitely very impressed. I haven't had it for very long, but after using it and hearing what it does, I expect to be leaning on this quite a bit as a primary audio toolkit. The sounds in the video show what this plugin can do, but it is far more dramatic when you actually have the plugin in your rig and turn the same controls. The explanations here are great. It is self evident how much time Andrew puts into thinking about audio and gear and organizing the process and the design of the software. Waves has another great product here that lives up to their now legendary high quality reputation.
I have too many channel strips already, but I have a feeling this one might make me sell all the others. Looks to be the most complete and versatile strip out there. Scheps is such a badass and a great teacher.
What an amazing plugin! I've just purchased it and can't wait to try it out. Insanely intelligent design, mindbogglingly flexible - I think this Scheps guy has a future in this industry.....
Recently bought this and LOOOOOVE IT!!!!
It's so easy and perfect sounding....my 1st choice plugin for most sounds!
Thank you, Andrew, so love your easy approach, tone and tuition beyond the product!
Excellent plugin, amazing value and very well explained features.
I use this on every mix. The presets are fantastic and you have so much control. Awesome 👏
One of the best channel strips ever made. Thx waves!
Facts
Andrew, thank you so much for the education & sharing some of your other hearted plugins!
This plugin as any of Scheps plugins is super helpful,sounds amazing and helps me shape and open the sound of my tracks like super easy.
Amazing tut. Thanks a lot, Andy!
Thank you AS and Waves great product you got here.. God bless
Bought this plugin months back, last year. It's really good and useful, but I'm watching this again, because I forget just how much extra functionality is in the expanded modules or realise these a feature I didn't even know about.If I load this on a channel, it never leaves, yet other plugins I'll swap out. This just does a great job. Even this vid scratches the surfaceof what it offers - buy it on a Waves sale price folk
I love this thing. The workflow is beautiful. It's definitely made my life much easier. If I could only afford one Waves plug, this would be the one to get.
Finally starting to understand the power of this plug-in. There's a lot of hidden functionality that I missed on first look.
I just started messing around with the Scheps Omni Channel 2 that I got to help with a podcast I'm working on, and I am so impressed with it so far!
Great to hear!
Thanks! I have to say I'm hooked on your plugins. I've got the Omni, Parallel, and the 73. Between those three plugins, there isn't much a person can't do. Thanks for the great walk through, gives me even more to explore. Keep it up!
Patrick Fouhy never really understood the parallel plugin. What do you like to use it on?
Well, you can use it on almost anything. It's essentially a way to add parallel compression and/or synthesis to the sound. Super easy to use, BUT, it's really easy to over use as well. The four parameters, Air, Bite, Thick and Sub each add their own bit. Air and Sub (if I remember correctly) are more like parallel synthesis, adding harmonic overtones to the frequencies. While Thick and Bite are frequency specific parallel compression.
Bite takes the transients and compresses them slowly with a longer release time. Great for making snares pop a bit more. Or getting any sort of faster sound to cut through a bit more. Thick is similar, but for the low end, really adds a nice round bottom end. If used on a snare drum it really fattens it up. On a kick, it add low end support without being boomy. Very round sounding. On a bass guitar these two knobs can really bring out the articulation, of the pick/fingers, while keeping a fat, round bottom end.
Air, on a snare drum, just adds a little more polish to the upper end, and really accents the attack of a kick drum. Sub...well, that adds sub harmonics.
the cool thing is the parameters play off of one another, so once you figure out how they interact with one another, the better you can dial in a sound. Also, the parameters aren't so extreme that you can't turn it all the way up. On a drum bus, just cranking every dial up to almost full has a dramatic effect but is still a useful effect. (if that makes any sense) It almost begs you to crank a parameter farther than you typically would.
The downside, is you don't have much flexibility within the frequencies. I Thiiiiink it just draws from the source for all that information. If you use it on too many parts of your mix, it will make your mix very powerful, but it kills dynamics if used too much (like anything) and since you can't fine tune very much, using it on multiple sources does make your mix sound a little hollow because it's accenting similar frequencies on all the tracks you use it on. If you need an instrument to really pop in the track, Parallel Particles does it nicely, and very very easily.
Patrick Fouhy just replying to compliment your awesome response. Puts my discordant thoughts on it into something that connects the dots and told me a thing or two I didn’t know. Gonna watch his 30 minute explanation video on it now thank you!!
yes, this is the kind of video we needed with this plugin. Finally can see the purpose behind it
Lmao how did you not initially see its purpose?
@@supersquare-maybe because Waves kept launching the same plugins with an extra feature and different gui .
Can't say enough. Just started playing with it this week. Should be called the Scheps Kitchen Sink, and no one's mentioned how light it is on the CPU. Voodoo. Thank you Andrew, thank you Waves.
Raal007 agree ... Incredibly light on CPU and my go to channel strip.
Great plugin and finally a video that left me feeling like I really know what it can do. Bravo!!
I love this plugin.
Game changer!
Definitely my fav Waves plugin! Andrew Scheps is a legend!
Thank you Lord Scheps!
Great job, thanks for the video!!!!
Greetings from Spain,
Carlos Mariño.
I have this plugin and my deep respect for mr Scheps!!
+1.
Very well thought out plugin. Probably the most comprehensive plugin around.
Amazing tutorial by the master himself. Got this plugin recently. Thanks a ton!
Me too! Crazy right?
@@aarona.dubzperson8245 Absolutely.
I have it, and this video will surely help me into using it better. Thank you Andrew. The insert tip must be a very powerful one.
Schepps is just incredible. genius. bought the plugin today. can't wait to try it.
A great in depth video! Thanks!
What an amazing man. A testament to how one's depth of craft can result in such a unique creation. Be inspired. 🔊
Thanks for making this video. I just got the Omni Channel a few days ago and I've decided after watching your explanation, to do my current project using just the Omni Channel and AmpliTube. I'm gonna read the manual now and I figure between the two perspectives, I'll be ready to insert it into my work flow.
I just got mine too. It is VERY GOOD!
I must say, this is an awesome strip plugin. I find myself going to it ALL the time. It's scalability and and can pretty much set up your track in any way imaginable for a first stage sometimes even eliminating further processing. I LOVE IT!!!!
Absolutely amazing how much thought and capability were [ut into this... thanks Andrew !
Just got it! So many hidden gems!
one of the best thought-through plugins imho.. and a great tutorial.. five stars.. :)
Just picked this up today, great to have a video like this to get started, thank you!
Excellent video and information
This pluggin us awesome dude thanks Andrew you a GOAT 🐐💯🔥🔥🔥
Omg-- so good. I have just bought this It is a very nice sounding plugin.. and heaps in here.
This video is well worth a watch even if you haven't (or don't intend to) buy the software. Thank you Andrew Scheps
Andrew Scheps is amazing!
Ahh so you can solo the eq bands while tweaking. :) I have the Omni Channel since yesterday. What a great tool!
Something kind of weird happened today - I was so impressed at this plugins combination of workflow efficiency and musical beauty, that having only spent $25 on it, I found myself compelled to o make a charitable contribution in the name of the Scheps Omni Channel.
That's awesome!!
To who? Waves?
@@brianjohnson9802 he should have sent it to me so I can get this
So simple yet so good!
Trying the omni channel strip I think it's very efective and accurate even though Ive only begun my journey in music production it is working wonders on some bad recordings I have done. I can't wait to see it perform on good work. Thanks Andrew for your tutorial I really needed that. 🤘
This guy is great! Parallel, Parallel, Parallel...Had to be a way he would implement this in parallel...great!
Very nice plugin i use. My go to! Thanks a lot.
Finally, a Ferrari I can afford.
😮
lol, so glad I watched ....didnt notice the "DOU" + "M/S" expansion window on the modules!
Thank you so much Mr. Scheps!I now have brain fog yet again.And I thought I knew some things before, but nothing like trying to understand the theory of how your plugin will actually work for me.I'm not bitchin.I think you are an absolute genius.I think that it's obvious for all of us.I need about one month just to fully understand just one side of the OmniChannel.I bought it about 3 months ago and I am so happy that you took the time to explain it in full detail.It was long over due.So I am going to download the video and put it into slow motion so that it sounds like Screw music from Houston, Texas and then write everything into my own words so I can understand it better.I'm a slow poke with understanding things multi-like so I will take things step by step at my own pace.I'm sure that when I get all this down understandably that the OmniChannel will be the plugin I go to more often than any others.I guess that's why you're the best in the business.That's why I am in your group.Trying to understand things so in depth like the OmniChanell makes me think that I am really doing something productive.If only I could know exactly what I was doing and why I am doing it.That was like Chinese arithmetic.But I'll get it one day.Thanks for all you do for us.I'll be with you for a while.That was military intelligence.Cheers!I really appreciate you.
Dude! It's really not that hard. Maybe watch the video a few times and try all the options on your own mixes. This plugin is built to address many audio engineering concepts, all in one place. As such, it's a fine toolset. You'll get it. Hey if it takes months to learn, that's value! Try the presets, they are very, very useful.
Well, may I should have read the manual. Loved this plugin before and will surely love it even more now. Thanks Mr. Scheps. I don't dare to call you Andrew :)
Incredible overview lots of useful knowledge
Mr. Scheps sold me this plugin, Waves helped make it.
"Drum Smush" at 24:00 Brilliant. Renaming all my crushed ambiance on drums to that from now on lol
Love the Scheps !
So BRILL...A.Sheppz is a genious
very nice job. sounds great.
that bass tone is amazing
cool, I got this and I am just getting around to use in productions.
This is the greatest plug in ever, created by a true genius. You need one of these.
Just one? I was thinking on every channel, literally...
@@johnvcougar I agree...the beauty is, you still only need one!
The Control plus EQ is really innovative. Ive aleays wanted something like that...I love the Focus controls...this is really an instrument in itself...
Yeah, that is BEASTIE!!!! Never saw that before.
Wow! I don’t think an engineer has ever been able to take such a deep sonic dive within one Channel Strip plugin.
I think your plugin truly replaces the need to insert the range of plugins that would be necessary to accomplish similar results.
I was hoping that by watching this video I’d be talked out of believing that I needed it. Now I realize that I won’t be happy without using it on tons of material. I hope the CPU load isn’t terribly extreme.
Thanks for the video and for the continuous sharing of your experience. The most wonderful thing about being an engineer is the fact that discovery is endless.
Cheers!
Tim
It's very easy on the system Tim, just got it myself and causes no latency whatsoever in Cubase - compare that with Abbey Roads Mastering from Waves which is 180ms! XD
But obviously sounds like heaven
@@JulianMerkerMusic Ha! I frickin love that Abbey Road plugin, I'm always telling people about it
Love this plugin , Scheps didn’t make a gimmick with this one
Great video Waves thank you. Always good listening to Yoda.
Great guy, met him at Monnow Valley
The very best thought out and accomplished channel or bus strip ever, light years ahead of the competition, doesn’t get the respect and acclaim that it deserves, well done Mr. Scheps!!
All purpose and amazing!! Love the features! I'm going to go back and remix some songs using this on every channel.
Hope you have a stout CPU because the downside of SOC is that it's not really light enough on CPU to be used on every channel. I was bummed to find that out, but still a great plug
Joely Barish I'm rocking an i7 with 24 gigs of RAM, so hopefully! If not, I can at least use it on all of my bus groups.
You're going to end up using less plungins in the end though. Use this, then hit it with some magic (Pultech etc) and bam you have your sound.
Fantastic
This strip is very well planned out. Everyone should have this. No brainer...
The best Waves plugin of all time
LOVE my Scheps Omni Channel....
Thank you very much.
wow!!! super cool plug for people just getting into production!!
... and pros, alike.
Amazing plugin
The best Waves plugins are Schep's plug ins. 73, Parallel Particle and Omni Channel.
Don't forget Paralell particles.
Brilliant !