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



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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