III. All about Dynamics // JAN 25

Igor I will go over that today since Jasmine posted a wonderful "do it yourself" duo! 

Gokce Turkmendag Hi Gokce, I think you need to use your Behringer device as an ASIO interface to make the best use out of its converting capabilites! In Ableton you are already using the behringer interface with an ASIO driver, in Reaper you are using "WaveOut", I think this is causing the latency. Btw, increasing the Buffer Size will increase latency since you allow your machine more time and reserves for computing! But since you are not in a live situation, higher latency shouldn't be a problem! When your buffer size is too smal, your playback will click and pop, since you will get audio drop outs!

When I go for realism in a recording, I usually don't use a stereo maker plugin since it will spread out the frequencies in a random manner which will create a very blurry phantom image. In that case, I usually would grab a nice reverb and let it do the heavy lifting for creating spaciousness! But sometimes, when I finalize a recording, I do make a stereo file just a tiny bit wider with my "bx_digital V3", but only something between 6%-10%!

Sometimes the standard settings of a reverb will decrease the dry signal by -3db. This has to do with the reverbaration radius, the point in a room where the dry and the wet signal are at the same level. I think this is just to give you a starting point for your reverb settings (since this is supposedly the best place to put your mics down, right down at the edge of your reverbaration radius).
 

Barry That's a wonderful setting you found there! Especially the EQ of the reverb is masterfully done, the pre-delay is enveloping your signal together wonderfully!

And I really like that you color coded your channels, this helps so much keeping your workspace organized. I am usually too lazy for that and always regret it, but Reaper acutally has a function to automatically color your tracks (I think even  based on key words, so that your main pair of mics or your reverb track always get the correct color!).

Mark Edwards I think I talked a little bit about that recording in the live stream, but I'd recommend to make good use of the EQ of the reverb (try something like 50 - 3000Hz!). Right now the reverb is masking a good portion of your otherwise wonderful recording, so the EQ will help and probably turn down the volume of the reverb. Increasing the room size will probably do wonderful things to a recording like this as well!

Barry van de Graaf I'll show some denoising with your recording today, but since you are using RX as well, try to slide the "Reduction" - fader up! I think 10-12db is the standard position, right now you are only reducing about 2.9db of noise

Barry van de Graaf oh definitely! I have no idea what half of my plugins are doing!

Barry van de Graaf Hehe, the more plugins an engineer uses the more you can charge, haha  

But on a serious note, I once had an issue with a recording and I knew only one plugin that could solve this issue without booking another recording day (it was a wrong note within a chord that he didn't recognized, since it was a world premiere he really wanted it to be correct). But as this plugin cost about 600€ I said to the musician "Listen, I don't really need this plugin for myself, so I won't simply buy it to fix, but if you wanna have that note fixed, you need to at least chip in". In the end we had three choices: Fix it with a 600€ plugin, book the hall for another day and hoping that we can fix it with a re-record (that meant editing together two takes that have been tracked on two different days with probably different mic settings, so a lot of post production work as well) or just simply leave the wrong note there
I won't say what we did  

Emili I will quickly go over denoising again!