Re: [microsound] re: Help for the beginner and Hello's

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> > Finally there's something that's done a lot in commercial voiceover
> > work though not so much in music, called ducking. You need to have an
> >  ability to sidechain in your software or hardware, it's not
> > universally found. You would be applying the smoothed out dynamic
> > info from your main track to inversely reduce the amplitude of other
> > track(s). Generally the manual will tell you about it if you have it.
>
> I guess I do ducking all the time in PD but I never knew the term for
> it. Also my software compressor does that too.
> I guess I knew all of the stuff you mentioned, though you stated it
> much more elequently then it looks in my head. Despite me knowing the
> facts your arrangement of thoes facts makes mixing a bit clearer now.
> Thanks!

Actually I should point out that it's what's done literally on  
commercials, you know like announcements you want to make people hear  
every word of. That's really not what you want to do on artistic  
music unless the goal is to mimic because it tends to sound heavy  
handed.

Ideally you don't want to duck and do want to reduce some of the  
midrange of the non-voice material with a parametric EQ after you  
have the vocals more or less the way you want them. A parameteric EQ  
is adjustable in terms of how much and what range of frequencies it  
removes. So you want to listen and reduce some frequencies in range  
your vocals lie in. In other words you are making some room where  
your vocals lie but to leave what sounds okay to avoid making things  
weak sounding.

p.s.  EQ works better when it lowers an offending range of sounds and  
works least well when it tries to boost frequencies you lack.
> The most important thing here is to just listen. Start with  
> presets, begin
> playing around with trying different settings to see what kind of  
> changes it
> makes to the sound. It's all about experimentation and exploration.

Definitely, though one thing I learned the hard way is ear fatigue.  
Once you start experimenting you tend to max things out. Then maybe  
your ears get fatigued then you listen to what you did later and have  
no idea why it doesn't sound right. There are no magic boxes that  
make things sound good or recipes you can just follow. On the other  
hand there are all sorts of concepts you can pick up and then try  
out.. Then you can agree or not if they are useful.

nicholas d. kent
http://technopop.info/ndkent/

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