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Vocal Rider
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| Mad for Brad |
| Looking for a very inexact plugin to just control the levels in a very broad manner. Been using on a few orchestral instruments. I don't want to automate right now as i'm working on the tone of the instruments. I'm wondering if anyone knows of any similar tools. Basically a rather slow compressor and transparent compressor. |
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| cryophonik |
| Not sure it will do the trick since I've never tried it on orchestral instruments, but you may want to look at FabFilter Pro-C for a slow and transparent compressor. D/L the demo and run it in Clean or Opto mode. |
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| Zombie0729 |
waves has a vocal rider, it's a bit too accurate if you ask me but it exists
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| Mad for Brad |
| that is what i'm using now but i'm looking for alternatives. It actually is a pretty neat compressor. For maintaining a relatively consistent volume without adding any compression artifacts. Compression on orchestral elements would be considered sacrilege with orchestral engineers ( not the film guys ) but I find that there is absolutely no difference between that and a pop album. An instrument is an instrument and recorded audio only has so much room. Orchestrations in the past were made for live settings, not recordings. They often don't even touch the panning of an orchestra or take away obvious key clicks or page turning even if they could because it is "part of the performance". Puritans take things too far. |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zombie0729
waves has a vocal rider, it's a bit too accurate if you ask me but it exists
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That's the one you want - just set it to slow, and adjust the sensitivity to taste. Make sure the range isn't too small. |
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| Mad for Brad |
| so do you want that logic upgrade ? I wasn't kidding. Unless it isn't for you but rather some latino guy you know. |
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| meriter |
| Is it just me or does sidechaining not work with this thing in logic |
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| Looney4Clooney |
what are you using as the source and why are you doing it ?
the point is that you buss say the guitars so that when they get loud, it will adjust making the vocal louder. It isn't meant for say a drum track. the source needs to be constant or there isn't a point to using the sidechain function. |
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| meriter |
| Yep I was trying to get it to respond to a kick, works just fine with a sustained sound, pretty badass actually. There are a few things online of people having problems which I suppose is just a misunderstanding of the plugin. Thanks for the heads up |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| its probably better to think of it as a mexican compressor. But one thing it can do rather well is ducking in both directions ( not an apt description but i think you get it) and it is pretty handy with instruments. One instrument gets louder, the other can either get louder or quieter. I suppose it is useful if you just have alot of tracks and you aren't a mixing wiz which i'm not. I've seen guys do one pass and do the automation by hand on a 3 man console. Honestly didn't get why they were kinda fat, |
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| meriter |
| I would've gone with jewish but yeah |
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