guinsu said:Ok, this probably sounds dumb, but I couldn't turn up much on google and I see this phrase get tossed around a bit. What is it and where would a ME use it?
masteringhouse said:Basically a side-chain compressor uses another signal other than the main input to control the amount of compression. Often times it is used in mastering to compress the audio at a particular frequency range by EQing the original signal in a separate path and feeding it into the side chain to control level.
Very useful for things like de-essing, removing plosives and so forth. Very similar to multi-band compression, but only works on one band at a time.
reshp1 said:I've always been a little sketchy on how de-essing works. So you take a vocal track, EQ it to EMPHASIZE the "ess" and then feed that into the compressor to control the amount of compression on the un-EQ'ed track? Is that right?
easychair said:Yes, you feed the EQ'ed track into the sidechain, and the compressor channel is inserted on the main track as usual. Compressors are stupid, they react to level, not frequency. Boosting the problem freqs makes them much higher in level than the rest of the signal, and so makes the compressor react only when the selected freqs go above the threshold.
easychair said:Compressors are stupid, they react to level, not frequency. Boosting the problem freqs makes them much higher in level than the rest of the signal, and so makes the compressor react only when the selected freqs go above the threshold.
kylen said:As far as multi-bands go I've set up 16th order compressors (96db/octave) in the DAW and it doesn't hurt - just depends on the type of cross-over character you like!
I'm on a P4 2.6GHz with an 845 chipset - in the midst of upgrading my chipset to get onboard firewire and usb2 as well as spdif i/o. I haven't finished yet so it's not a good time for me to recommend it...I can say I'm trying a ABit IC7-G motherboard for the upgrade, antec neopower 480w and either 1GB 2700DDR or 3200DDR I'm not sure yet. I thought I'd wait till they straighten out 64bit a little more before I consider the cpu upgrade...tpreager said:kylen,
What are you using for your DAW? I'm in the midst of looking for a new station and would like as much input as possible. I've read a bit that AMD opeteron (I think that's how you spell it) are fairly good, but I can't remember what chipset to use it with.
Thanks,
Timmy J
What?? is that definitely true?