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From: mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mac4theblind-
bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christohper-Mark Gilland
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 18:28
To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: Adding a manually configured Compressor
Here's a question for you I've asked on and off list many! times! Can
you
leave me alone for God sake? Your mails are from this point forward
being
purmanently filtered to the trash.
If anyone else needs to know how to do the same with him, write me off
list
and I'll teach you how.
cgilland1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Better yet, though his name won't be specifically mentioned obviously,
I may
just make a blog post on how to do this, then will post a link once
available.
Had I not been specific no one would a known what I needed to do.
Saying can I add a compressor, um... like, yeah, duh? of course I can.
But
can I make it do what I need it to do?
Stop being a troll for God sake. Sometimes I wonder why the hell
you're on
list.
If john wants to get on me for saying it, go right ahead. No offense
to
him, but with all do respect, to all list members, including but not
limited
to John, I'm darned well haddit with you! Sir, and frankly, I'm not
afraid
on list to say it! Fact, I'm proud of it!
Ooo! that felt good!
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Hilbert Poehlman" <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 9:21 PM
Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: Adding a manually configured Compressor
can you pair this down to the questions without all the editorializing?
On Mar 10, 2012, at 4:01 PM, Christohper-Mark Gilland wrote:
OK, maybe someone here will have some idea how to work through this.
I am trying to record a track of me singing lead vocals on top of a
backing
karaoke track using Garage Band. This is a country based genre song,
so one
thing with country music generally is the lyrics are what really need
to
drive the most attention to the song. What's tending to happen is my
vocals
are becoming very very clipped somewhere along the recording chain. My
guess is I'm probablyu clipping the internal buss, by the sound of it.
The
odd thing is according to the meters on my interface, I'm peeking
around -12DB which isn't even close to clipping. This is why I'm
thinking
somehow, it's not within the interface. I'm thinking it's somehow
clipping
at the DAW internal buss level. With this said, here's what I'd like
to do
along with my question. Hopefully someone will know a way in GB to
make
this happen. I'm not aposed at all to using Amadeus Pro, if you all
think
this task will be much easier there. I'd like to stick with GB however
if
at all possible.
So, what I'd like to do, is, first of all, I need to probably on my
interface, I'm thinking, probably back off my gain just a bit.
Actually,
quite a bit. I'm saying run it so I'm peeking around maybe instead
of -12DB, maybe go to -24DB. This way, we've basically cut the level
in
half. Then seeing we know -12DB is apparently the clipping point, I'd
like
to take a compressor, and add a very fast attack with a very slow
release.
I'd say maybe just a few milliseconds on the attack, and maybe a second
or
so on the release. Basically, I'm looking for somewhere in the
neighborhood
of a 2/1 ratio. Basically, what I'm trying to do is have Garage band's
compressor boost my level. In other words, record the vocals very
quiet
then let the compressor boost them back up to an acceptible level,
rather
than me trying to drive the DAW really hot, if that makes any sense.
I'm
sure especially to people like Sarah, it will. Cause obviously you
always
always always! wanna run some compression on vocals as it helps with
levelling problems like this. So, I want to set it where basically the
compressor knows that -12DB is too high. Then also, using a
compressor, I'd
like to have it clamp down! a bit on the music. This way what we're
essentially doing is using two compressors. One to bring the vocal up
and
boost the signal, then another to roll off the backing karaoke track a
ways.
I know there are different presets with the compressor effect built
into GB,
but is this something that is fairly easy to set manually to the way
I'm
describing? I'm sorry, but I do not do preconfigured presets. I've
found
that there aren't any good ones. Just bottom line. They all in my
opinion
only, sound like crap. I prefer starting from scratch and building my
own
customized setup.
So, does anyone have any suggestions how I can cut this internal buss
clipping down? I just know! I can't say for sure, but I almost can bet
my
money on that is what is happening.
Chris.
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