High-pass and Low-pass Filters in Studio One
Before I switched to Studio One, I used Reason. And in Reason the mixer console is this emulation of an SSL desk with a lot of bells and whistles built in. One of them is the filter section where you have your low-pass and high-pass filters right there on the channel with no need to add any plugins.
So, when I switched to Studio One with its pristinely clean mixer channel pipes, I missed this ability to instantly low-pass or high-pass the output. But OK, I thought, I’ll just have to add a filter plugin. Except there’s no simple stock filter plugin in Studio One. I decided to reach out to the Studio One community of Facebook (or was it Reddit?) and ask what they use.
And to my surprise, the whole premise sounded kind of weird to most of them. In retrospect I understand that when you don’t come from where I came from, and most DAWs have mixers more like one found in Studio One than the one in Reason, I guess you are just used to slapping an equalizer on the channel and you are done with it. And technically, that’s fine. Yet, it doesn’t sit well with me conceptually.
In this video I explore various options to do simple filtering in Studio One.
To summarize, here are some of your options:
- Just use Pro EQ (or some other equalizer plugin) and move on.
- Utilize Autofilter with its “auto” features turned off.
- Use bx_cleansweep from Brainworx — simple, clean, and free filter plugin.
- Use Filter by Kilohearts for more options and features — still free.
- Get an inexpensive but amazing Rift Filter Lite from Minimal Audio. It’s way more than a simple filter but it can act as one with very little UI overhead.
What do you use for your filtering needs?
