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http://plugin.org.uk/meterbridge/ On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:10:53 +0200 danomatika <[email protected]> wrote: > Howdy all, > > I've been having a fight with myself on how to best mix within pd. I'm > constantly going back and forth between: > > > 1. Keep everything and a lower relative so that the OUT never goes > above 100 and the CLIP box never goes red. > 2. Follow my ears and make it sound good, ignore the OUT > box/button. > > > In practice, following #2 yields much better sounding recordings, at > least to me. I'm definitely not clipping as there are not aliasing/digi > distortion going on. Viewing the file in Audacity mere shows the drums > to be the culprit, but as they are so fast, I cant actually hear any > clip. > > Generally, following #1 gives me good sounding mixes, but at way too low > of a volume. > > How do you guys approach doing this? I notice the IN and OUT meters are > off by default ..., but I assume that's due to performance reasons. :D > > I mix everything through separate channels with [vu~]'s using [throw~] > and [catch~] objects which are eventually combined into a left and right > channel which are sent to the [dac~]. Does anyone have any other tricks > such as using scopes etc to help? > > Alos, I keep setting the drums too loud over and over again. Yves, how > do I properly use [compressor~], does [compressor~ 1] have it output at > 1.0 or what? I know it works but I don't really understand the -1 to 5 > range. Does anyone have any good, fast tricks in pd for good sounding > drum compression? > > --- > Dan Wilcox > danomatika.com > robotcowboy.com > -- Use the source _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
