Sabtu, 15 September 2007
Minggu, 02 September 2007
vocal
The Motown 1960's Exciting Compressor
With the Motown mix approach there were problems. If you wanted the lyrics to be heard you had to use a lot of compression on the vocal so that the the softer words could still be heard over the higher-level music. In addition you boosted the "presence range" (around 5 kHz) with an equalizer. The only problem with this is that it took the life & natural dynamics out of the vocal.
Lawrence Horn came up with a brilliant idea. He took the vocal and split the signal so that it when to 2 console channels. Before the vocal signal went to the second channel, it went through a compressor. Now he had two channels of the vocal - one compressed and one uncompressed. On the uncompressed vocal he added very little with the equalizer and he added the reverb. On the compressed channel, he compressed the h**l out of it and added a ton of high-frequency equalization. What he would do is bring up the "natural" channel to full level to get the basic natural sound on the vocal. On the other compressed and equalized channel, he brought this up just enough to add excitement and presence to the vocal sound.
The result was nothing less than amazing. In the mix the vocal sounded very natural and bright. None of the music ever "stepped on" the vocal and you could hear each and every syllable in the lyrics. The vocal never got lost.
With the Motown mix approach there were problems. If you wanted the lyrics to be heard you had to use a lot of compression on the vocal so that the the softer words could still be heard over the higher-level music. In addition you boosted the "presence range" (around 5 kHz) with an equalizer. The only problem with this is that it took the life & natural dynamics out of the vocal.
Lawrence Horn came up with a brilliant idea. He took the vocal and split the signal so that it when to 2 console channels. Before the vocal signal went to the second channel, it went through a compressor. Now he had two channels of the vocal - one compressed and one uncompressed. On the uncompressed vocal he added very little with the equalizer and he added the reverb. On the compressed channel, he compressed the h**l out of it and added a ton of high-frequency equalization. What he would do is bring up the "natural" channel to full level to get the basic natural sound on the vocal. On the other compressed and equalized channel, he brought this up just enough to add excitement and presence to the vocal sound.
The result was nothing less than amazing. In the mix the vocal sounded very natural and bright. None of the music ever "stepped on" the vocal and you could hear each and every syllable in the lyrics. The vocal never got lost.
layering
It's one of those things, having spent so many years working with people such as Mutt whose whole thing is depth of field and whose whole concept is layering, so that even if something is just subtly audible, it's adding depth of field. You have to carve out space for things with EQ; you have to spend a lot of time making a place for everything to sit.
I remember when I first came out to L.A. to work, everything in recording was much more natural-people had perfect textbook ways of miking things, and it was more about being a purist. In England the approach was different; it was more about giving the sound more or different character. It was almost a matter of messing with it as much as you could. Especially with certain producers, the idea was to be as unnatural as you could and to not be afraid to screw the crap out of the EQ-to do things that were as "unpurist" as you could get. Also at that time, everyone was into SSL consoles over there, and over here they were frowned upon because they were not a pure signal path.
I remember when I first came out to L.A. to work, everything in recording was much more natural-people had perfect textbook ways of miking things, and it was more about being a purist. In England the approach was different; it was more about giving the sound more or different character. It was almost a matter of messing with it as much as you could. Especially with certain producers, the idea was to be as unnatural as you could and to not be afraid to screw the crap out of the EQ-to do things that were as "unpurist" as you could get. Also at that time, everyone was into SSL consoles over there, and over here they were frowned upon because they were not a pure signal path.
Sabtu, 01 September 2007
VOCAL
Sopran
Alto ---- masuk ke wet treatment ... agar lebih blend dengan musik
Tenor
Bass ---- masuk ke dry treatment ... IN YOUR FACE
Baru decide reverb utk instrument yg lain
Alto ---- masuk ke wet treatment ... agar lebih blend dengan musik
Tenor
Bass ---- masuk ke dry treatment ... IN YOUR FACE
Baru decide reverb utk instrument yg lain
Senin, 20 Agustus 2007
IR
Free IMPULSE RESPONSES
Noisevault - large collection
http://noisevault.com/nv/
Echochamber - another large collection
http://www.memi.de/echochamber/responses/index.html
Voxengo
http://www.voxengo.com/impulses/
Prosoniq (need AIFF to WAV conversion0
http://www.prosoniq.net/html/ir.html
Kaleidoscopy (12MB free available in demo version)
http://www.spiritcanyonaudio.com./kaleidoskopy.php
Lexicon PCM-90
http://homepage.hispeed.ch/zidee/
KangImp
http://www.geocities.com/kangimp/
Reverbs, FX incl. chromatic piano resonance
IR of the Month
http://www.cksde.com/p_6_250.htm
(monthly collections, includes good basic description of Impulse Response technology)
Fokke van Saane
http://www.xs4all.nl/~fokkie/IR.htm
(includes some great specialist spaces for sound designers)
Sanitarium demo
http://www.spiritcanyonaudio.com/sanitarium.php
(18 MB of IRs in the demo version of this plug)
Spectral Relativity demo
http://www.spiritcanyonaudio.com/spectralrelativity.php
(11 MB of IRs in the demo version of this plug)
MoreVox
http://www.morevox.com/
reverbs, real spaces, FX, Madrid Metro
watertank by tank-fx.de
http://adminx.de/roman/_laut8leise/IR/TankFX01.tar
1 x IR, 16 bit, spike, jbl control one, rode nt-5, some street noise.
altiverb version. try violin and voice.
re-201 space echo
http://www.device.arcanedevice.com/?misc
Cyber Kitchen Sound Design Enterprise - via Voxengo
http://www.voxengo.com/pspace/
Samplicity
http://www.samplicity.com/download/index.html
ColorToneIR Library
http://tritonedigital.com/forum/index.php
forum appears when you register.
Sony Acoustic Mirror
http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/download/step1.asp?CatID=6
1-1-1 net impulses
http://www.1-1-1-1.net/pages/impulses/index.htm
Concert Hall impulses (Finland)
http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/projects/poririrs/
Intelligent Machinery - experimental IRs
http://www.intelligentmachinery.net/products/threshold.php
Acoustics Engineering examples
http://www.acoustics-engineering.com/dirac/examples.htm
Beamsonic - microphones, tape, amps, hardware
http://noox.sitesled.com/
JC Productionz free impulses
http://jcproductionz.bravehost.com/impulses.html
real spaces
Syn-Aud-Con Impulse Response Exchange - real spaces
http://www.synaudcon.com/sacirxchange.htm
Borque impulses - 6 rooms, churches
http://home.wanadoo.nl/~borque/impulses/
Rob Stewart - (limestone cave and garage}
http://www.robstewart.com/ir.html
Goldbaby's Impulses - Lexicon LXP-15, MPC etc
http://www.goldbaby.co.nz/freestuff.html
Waves freebies - (4)
http://www.acoustics.net/content.asp?id=96
Syverb - some freebies in demo
http://www.sharewarejunction.com/info.asp?ProductID=39786
Cabinets etc.
(got these from another thread here, it said "some of those irs require some trimming at the beginning"):
http://annex.ax84.com/l6cabs.zip
http://annex.ax84.com/rash_cabs.zip
http://annex.ax84.com/microcabimpulses.zip
http://annex.ax84.com/Digitrack_Generation_3_impulses.zip
http://annex.ax84.com/mr8_impulses.zip
Clarinets and trumpets
http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~maarten/thesis_sounds.html
Digitech Rp3 reverbs v2.0
SanSamp Gt2 amp simulations
Zoom 508 delays
http://www.pluggotic.com/products.html
Guitar cabinets - mainly Peavey 5150
http://www.esnips.com/web/KeiffersGuitarClips
SpACE-Net (4 spaces) :
Maes-Howe Passage Tomb Orkney, Hamilton Mausoleum, St Andrews Church Lyddington, and York Minster.
http://www.space-net.org.uk/IRs.html
Emes Virtual rooms (9 free examples)
http://www.emes.de/pageseng/products/Impulsresponse/eimpulse.htm
Clipgod
Ursa Major's Space Station, Kurzweil's KSP8 reverbs
http://www.wizomail.de/clipgod/projects.htm
Mesa Boogie
Guitar amp cab impulses (3)
[www.sneapforum.celtiaproductions.co.uk]
Airwindows Impulses
Outdoor blastoff, outdoor stadium, plate reverbs, rooms, pool
http://www.airwindows.com/f/AirwindowsImpulses.zip
Intelligent Machinery - "Unnatural Spaces"
Glass vase , plastic human skull, wooden box etc. etc .
http://www.intelligentmachinery.net/?q=node/126
T1mp impulses
Various room spaces
http://www.t1mp.net/utilities.cfm
CinningBao - Mon Nov 08, 2004 5:24 am
mm, good topic.
here are a couple more:
http://www.cksde.com/p_6_250.htm
http://www.ressl.com.ar/realreverb/index_old.html
meister eder - Mon Nov 08, 2004 5:26 am
One to add:
Fokke van Saane
http://www.xs4all.nl/~fokkie/IR.htm
CinningBao - Mon Nov 08, 2004 5:53 am
more..
http://www.james-hopgood.net/Users/jrh/?doc=ImpulseResponses
http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~maarten/thesis_sounds.html
Pantsdown666 - Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:28 am
(edit) link gone
Pantsdown666 - Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:38 am
and another :
Spectral Relativity demo
http://www.spiritcanyonaudio.com/spectralrelativity.php
(11 MB of IRs in the demo version of this plug)
More ...
http://altiverb.daw-mac.com/index.html
http://www.acusticaudio.net/modules.php?name=Products&file=nebula2free
http://www.echochamber.ch/responses/index.html
http://www.knufinke.de/sir/sir1.html
Noisevault - large collection
http://noisevault.com/nv/
Echochamber - another large collection
http://www.memi.de/echochamber/responses/index.html
Voxengo
http://www.voxengo.com/impulses/
Prosoniq (need AIFF to WAV conversion0
http://www.prosoniq.net/html/ir.html
Kaleidoscopy (12MB free available in demo version)
http://www.spiritcanyonaudio.com./kaleidoskopy.php
Lexicon PCM-90
http://homepage.hispeed.ch/zidee/
KangImp
http://www.geocities.com/kangimp/
Reverbs, FX incl. chromatic piano resonance
IR of the Month
http://www.cksde.com/p_6_250.htm
(monthly collections, includes good basic description of Impulse Response technology)
Fokke van Saane
http://www.xs4all.nl/~fokkie/IR.htm
(includes some great specialist spaces for sound designers)
Sanitarium demo
http://www.spiritcanyonaudio.com/sanitarium.php
(18 MB of IRs in the demo version of this plug)
Spectral Relativity demo
http://www.spiritcanyonaudio.com/spectralrelativity.php
(11 MB of IRs in the demo version of this plug)
MoreVox
http://www.morevox.com/
reverbs, real spaces, FX, Madrid Metro
watertank by tank-fx.de
http://adminx.de/roman/_laut8leise/IR/TankFX01.tar
1 x IR, 16 bit, spike, jbl control one, rode nt-5, some street noise.
altiverb version. try violin and voice.
re-201 space echo
http://www.device.arcanedevice.com/?misc
Cyber Kitchen Sound Design Enterprise - via Voxengo
http://www.voxengo.com/pspace/
Samplicity
http://www.samplicity.com/download/index.html
ColorToneIR Library
http://tritonedigital.com/forum/index.php
forum appears when you register.
Sony Acoustic Mirror
http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/download/step1.asp?CatID=6
1-1-1 net impulses
http://www.1-1-1-1.net/pages/impulses/index.htm
Concert Hall impulses (Finland)
http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/projects/poririrs/
Intelligent Machinery - experimental IRs
http://www.intelligentmachinery.net/products/threshold.php
Acoustics Engineering examples
http://www.acoustics-engineering.com/dirac/examples.htm
Beamsonic - microphones, tape, amps, hardware
http://noox.sitesled.com/
JC Productionz free impulses
http://jcproductionz.bravehost.com/impulses.html
real spaces
Syn-Aud-Con Impulse Response Exchange - real spaces
http://www.synaudcon.com/sacirxchange.htm
Borque impulses - 6 rooms, churches
http://home.wanadoo.nl/~borque/impulses/
Rob Stewart - (limestone cave and garage}
http://www.robstewart.com/ir.html
Goldbaby's Impulses - Lexicon LXP-15, MPC etc
http://www.goldbaby.co.nz/freestuff.html
Waves freebies - (4)
http://www.acoustics.net/content.asp?id=96
Syverb - some freebies in demo
http://www.sharewarejunction.com/info.asp?ProductID=39786
Cabinets etc.
(got these from another thread here, it said "some of those irs require some trimming at the beginning"):
http://annex.ax84.com/l6cabs.zip
http://annex.ax84.com/rash_cabs.zip
http://annex.ax84.com/microcabimpulses.zip
http://annex.ax84.com/Digitrack_Generation_3_impulses.zip
http://annex.ax84.com/mr8_impulses.zip
Clarinets and trumpets
http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~maarten/thesis_sounds.html
Digitech Rp3 reverbs v2.0
SanSamp Gt2 amp simulations
Zoom 508 delays
http://www.pluggotic.com/products.html
Guitar cabinets - mainly Peavey 5150
http://www.esnips.com/web/KeiffersGuitarClips
SpACE-Net (4 spaces) :
Maes-Howe Passage Tomb Orkney, Hamilton Mausoleum, St Andrews Church Lyddington, and York Minster.
http://www.space-net.org.uk/IRs.html
Emes Virtual rooms (9 free examples)
http://www.emes.de/pageseng/products/Impulsresponse/eimpulse.htm
Clipgod
Ursa Major's Space Station, Kurzweil's KSP8 reverbs
http://www.wizomail.de/clipgod/projects.htm
Mesa Boogie
Guitar amp cab impulses (3)
[www.sneapforum.celtiaproductions.co.uk]
Airwindows Impulses
Outdoor blastoff, outdoor stadium, plate reverbs, rooms, pool
http://www.airwindows.com/f/AirwindowsImpulses.zip
Intelligent Machinery - "Unnatural Spaces"
Glass vase , plastic human skull, wooden box etc. etc .
http://www.intelligentmachinery.net/?q=node/126
T1mp impulses
Various room spaces
http://www.t1mp.net/utilities.cfm
CinningBao - Mon Nov 08, 2004 5:24 am
mm, good topic.
here are a couple more:
http://www.cksde.com/p_6_250.htm
http://www.ressl.com.ar/realreverb/index_old.html
meister eder - Mon Nov 08, 2004 5:26 am
One to add:
Fokke van Saane
http://www.xs4all.nl/~fokkie/IR.htm
CinningBao - Mon Nov 08, 2004 5:53 am
more..
http://www.james-hopgood.net/Users/jrh/?doc=ImpulseResponses
http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~maarten/thesis_sounds.html
Pantsdown666 - Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:28 am
(edit) link gone
Pantsdown666 - Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:38 am
and another :
Spectral Relativity demo
http://www.spiritcanyonaudio.com/spectralrelativity.php
(11 MB of IRs in the demo version of this plug)
More ...
http://altiverb.daw-mac.com/index.html
http://www.acusticaudio.net/modules.php?name=Products&file=nebula2free
http://www.echochamber.ch/responses/index.html
http://www.knufinke.de/sir/sir1.html
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