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mixsit
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So i inherited these guitar track stems sent to us to put into one of these songs i'm doing for a friend.. They were pretty obviously tracked heavily compressed with something that left me (us) with nice big spikes followed by rather completely leveled sucked down rest of each lick. Basically an obnoxious popping noise for a front end followed by little or no dynamic for the most part.
The fun is, after sucking with three or four compressors, styles of attack, a few limiters and a transient plug i found for an unexpected attack shaping tool helped.. a gate.
A few ms look ahead, an appropriate hold and release- easy, then the attack speed (4ms or so) controlled the ramp up.
Not sure why but it still left some attack left in the tone, but unlike even fast low ratio compression, didn't seem to kill it. My guess is it let me dial in an 'auto ramp up in that 0 to 5ms range but w/o pulling down the peak.
One for the road.
The fun is, after sucking with three or four compressors, styles of attack, a few limiters and a transient plug i found for an unexpected attack shaping tool helped.. a gate.
A few ms look ahead, an appropriate hold and release- easy, then the attack speed (4ms or so) controlled the ramp up.
Not sure why but it still left some attack left in the tone, but unlike even fast low ratio compression, didn't seem to kill it. My guess is it let me dial in an 'auto ramp up in that 0 to 5ms range but w/o pulling down the peak.
One for the road.