Recent content by singlespeak

I like the song. What microphone did you use? I think that might be a bigger problem than your room size - although at 1.5x2, I can see why you're called sardineclub. You want a natural sound, but when I listen to the first six seconds that doesn't sound natural at all. It sounds like natural...

Yes it's frustrating isn't it RAMI. If only I could be as savvy as you. *sighs*

That's why people don't throw birthday parties for me anymore.

Oh my, I can turn it off. Good. Nevermind! Thanks all =)

Look, RAMI, I appreciate the time you're taking to respond. The dynamic range of my voice is wide in this particular recording and at one point I also came closer to the mic while I should have been moving away. So there's quite a leap there, nothing too dramatic, automation actually works quite...

I could have sworn I wasn't talking about makeup gain, but ratio. :eek: @SouthSIDE Glen: fair enough, I just like to understand the tools I'm working with, so bear with me. Strictly speaking it IS logical to try this with a compressor, no? I mean, in essence that's what a compressor is...

This story just keeps going, screw Logic's built-in compressor. I have a good vocal with one syllable being too loud. So my meter is doing fine until that one sound passes and it goes in the red. So I think, just compress that stuff! So I added a compressor and I was fiddling about with the...

Is there a specific class of sounds for which this compression in series would be used? For example, would you do it more for vocals, or gits, or drums, etc.? Or is it just a matter of trying it out and seeing if it works on that particular recording? Just riding the hijack.

@SouthSIDE Glen: no matter what my track level is, when I turn on the compressor the sound gets louder, when I turn it off it gets quieter. It even does so with the threshold set at 0db, in which case I expect a compressor to do diddly squat - unless the sound passes 0db which it clearly...

Hi, Been a while. I'm confused with Logic 8's compressor. It says in the manual that it's a downward compressor ("the compressor works by reducing levels"). Yet, I have a vocal track, it's rubbish because it's too quiet, and when I put a compressor on it (3.1:1, -6,5db, 0 db gain) my vocal...

Thanks Farview. It didn't give me back my G, but it did make my C sound just a tad better.

I think the song's fantastic. Kind of a DJ Shadow ripoff, but good work.

Pretty good guess, no? But actually I'm going to go for snare. I think it's the same snare that drives the rest of the song.

Now there's an interesting thought, never even occurred to me. Touch sensitive back on is definitely an option, I just thought I could practice my compression some (I mean, that IS what it's supposed to do right? Knock back the louds?). See that's what I was thinking: the difference in volume...

My guess would be either a record scratch with volume staccato, or a stretched-out snare, also with volume staccato. That's what I'd start fiddling with anyway.