compressor/limiter

[thememuzik]

Does the compressor and limiter work in real time for recording? Also, what are good compresson and limiting levels for vocals? for music?

[Emeric]

Most of the directX compressors will work in real time, if you don't overdue the number of them. Waves makes a good one. If the one your referring to is the Cubase 3.7 Version, yes they do work in realtime, but I found way to many bugs in 3.7, so am back to 3.65.

As for compressor settings, don't overcompress, tweak till it sounds good to you.

Emeric

[thememuzik]

I have the 3.7VST version. What are some of the bugs that you have found?

[thememuzik]

In the Cubase compressor, you have AUTOGATE, COMPRESSOR, SOFTCLIP, LIMIT, and AUTOLEVEL controls. When do I use what and why? I checked that site... very informative... but they weren't talking about software which is why you have to do a little guessing. Also, if I click on DRY, will my compression, etc. effects still be heard, or not?

Also, how do I swtich between RMS and Peak?
peace

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[Emeric]

Well the biggest bug is that it doesnt work with my sound card, Aark 20/20. Party Steinberg's fault, partly aardvark. I didn't use it long enough to find anymore bug, but from reading posts in other forums there appear to be many problems.

Emeric

[thememuzik]

Do you know of any guidelines as far as compression, eq, threshold, attack, and so forth? I was told that as far as limiting digital audio, dont go about 0.0db....

peace
THEME

[Emeric]

Here's a link for you. At the bottom there is another link with some typical settings.
Keep in mind these are geared towards electronic samples, but the concepts are the same.
http://www.electronicmusic.com/featu...mpressors.html

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[Emeric]

At the moment I'm using Cubase 3.65 which does not have these features... so I can't be of much help with Cubase 3.7 until Cubase 3.71 comes out. As to the DRY - I would say that you will not hear any effect if you set it to dry. Sort of like a bypass I suppose.

Autogate - a gate that closes whenever the signal hits xx dB and opens when the signal hits xxdB. The links should explain the rest.


Emeric




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[thememuzik]

Do you know of any Cubase mailinglists?