![]() I considered VR and its alternatives but in the meanwhile have been playing with these two and see some value in them. I often have non- critical quality voice material that wasn't recorded pristinely and has too much volume disparity over a few hours and I'll have to nudge it in chunks into the ballpark before I call consider using dynamics plugins to smooth the perceived level out. JoeFor audiobooks there are two free programs that caught my eye as kind of poor-man's Vocal Rider. I have an audio book project coming up in the end of January that I am looking forward to using it on as well! YMMV I was going to try the Waves version but as others mentioned, you can't edit the volume and since it's a plugin where the audio passes it's just another trip through the TDM (or native) bus adding more rounding errors to the signal. Let it write over the entire vocal in relaxed, then if you have sections where the vocalist was way out of control run the aggressive just in that place. One good technique is to have 2 settings: relaxed and aggressive. You do have to take some time the first time you use it to figure out the settings, but once you have that save the presets for the future. You either have to graphically edit or do multiple passes which burns your time and energy. Where it really saves time is all those wild variations in level between words.especially with a dynamic singer who doesn't know mic technique. Now you can hit your compressor much more evenly in the sweet spot and do your final ride post compressor. It's more like an assistant who gets the meat of the ride done in one pass. You can adjust it so it doesn't completely flatten the level.ĭon't look at it like your final ride. ![]() On vox? I'd love to learn otherwise, and believe I've just not found the perfect setting, but I think I'm giving up on this one. If you're doing L and R panned guitars with near identical takes, for intance, leveling them with this first will help get them to where neither pokes out and grabs your attention more than the other, so they stay balanced. it can do a quick and decent job of leveling a track when you just want to even it out and don't want a compressed sound. I guess since the phrasing isn't something we have such a strong innate sense for. oddly enough, the one place I"ve found it does work. No matter how much knob tweaking you do, it doesn't ever really get it right.Īll in all, I think I still have to do just as much automation, and sometimes to FIX moves it's made. After working with it on a few projects, though, I'm convincd it's simply not very good at what it does. At first, I was thinking it was generally useful, but then had to be tweaked. Not a deal killer, but seems a bit clunky for an $800 (TDM) tool. ![]() Seems like it would be more straightforward just to have it write to the volume directly, but I guess you could copy it. Does that imply that the automation is written to the plug in lane not the track volume lane? If so that means you have to leave that plug activated during bounce / mixdown. I do it with a compressor - works great, but it seems that using the Waves Vocal Rider paradigm to boost dialog would make it tough to keep your dialog stem consistent when mixing for broadcast.ģ.) I noticed that after the automation was written he said you put the plug back in read mode. It's the other material (usually music) that should be lowered to accommodate the dialog, not the other way around. Maybe I misunderstood their functionality, but that is the wrong technique IMHO. I would not deliver a project that sounded like this.Ģ.) Seems like they are offering the functionality of raising the dialog level above a side chain input, presumably as their take on ducking. It seemed as thought the singing content was marginally better, or perhaps less obvious because it was mixed with music, but the straight dialog was unimpressive. Has anyone else listened to the demo on Waves website? I just did and was not too impressed.ġ.) All through the demonstration I was marvelling at the bad audio mix, then to my surprise - they announce that their plug in is riding the levels on the video! Either the response time or perhaps the range seemed sub-optimal, I was hearing the jumps in syllables to a distracting level. I do a lot of dialog editing and "manual compression" / vocal riding. Well, much fanfare on this plug in, but I'm not so sure.
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