Mama Luna 150 bpm Fraktal Arabesque-gnagnagnagnaland
dimitrilentryptamine
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Posted : Nov 30, 2012 00:57:04
hey guys, so i need some help with some leads volume, cause it changes when the filter freq goes up or down, i dunno a way to set a compressor to make the sound run at the same level, or some other trick,so if anyone can help it will be great!!! also some feedback will be appreciated!!
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knocz
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Posted : Dec 2, 2012 21:57
Hey! Like the ideas in the tune, a little more polishing and it's be great I also thing a more cleaner snare would glue better on this track.
About the compressors, it's kinda simple. A compressor is an effect that reacts and manipulates the signal amplitude. Think of it as having a trained monkey holding the volume knob on a specific channel: he is trained to lower the volume of a track when it gets too high, and return it back to where it was when it goes down. It's just about that.
Now, we can adjust the monkeys' behavior with certain parameters: the threshold is the value from which you want to start lowering; the lookahead consists on his reaction time (the time from when the sound is detected and when he starts moving the volume); the attack is the time it takes him to go from start moving the volume until the specified ratio; the ratio is the amount you want to lower the signal; the release is the time from when the signal goes back down below the threshold and the monkey puts the volume back to normal.
Explaining the ratio: if you want you signal to be blocked at your specified threshold, you'll set an infinite ratio (not good ). This will destroy the dynamics of the signal (it won't jump up and down as much), so you can (and most probably should in most situations) set a ratio lower than infinite. As an example, a ratio of 1:2 will reduce in half the volume between the threshold and the peaks, and a ratio of 1:8 will reduce 8 times that volume.
This is used (in my case) for "controlling" the peaks of those glitchy sounds (like filter frequency sweeps with high resonance), making it sounds somewhat at equal (or controlled) volumes during whatever settings: after, I lower/ raise the gain to mix the channel into the mix.
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I also thing a more cleaner snare would glue better on this track.
). This will destroy the dynamics of the signal (it won't jump up and down as much), so you can (and most probably should in most situations) set a ratio lower than infinite. As an example, a ratio of 1:2 will reduce in half the volume between the threshold and the peaks, and a ratio of 1:8 will reduce 8 times that volume.
