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• Shorten the sustain period of a snare or a reverb tail in a very musical way
• When recording a live drum set, shorten the toms or overheads without
• Micing live drums is considerably faster and easier because you can correct
• The Transient Designer is a perfect alternative to noise gates in live drum
• Create unusual dynamic effects including new and interesting pan effects.
• Enjoy an amazingly simple integration of drum sounds into a mix. If the
Drums:
If your drums happen to sound as if the room mics have been placed in a shoe
Ambience
closet, the Transient Designer can immediately turn that sound into the ambi-
ence of an empty warehouse. Just send the stereo room mics through the Tran-
sient Designer and crank the ATTACK control to emphasize the first wave.
Now slowly increase SUSTAIN values to bring up an "all-buttons-in-1176-
sound" room tone—but without pumping cymbals. For a solid and driving
rhythm track just fine-tune the SUSTAIN control to make sure that the room mic
envelope ends more or less exactly on the desired upbeat or downbeat.
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to obtain more transparency in the mix.
physically damping them. Usual efforts to damp and mike are reduced re-
markably. Since muffling of any drum also changes the dynamic response,
the Transient Designer opens up a whole new soundscape.
the apparent "distance" of the microphone by simply varying the ATTACK
and SUSTAIN values.
micing. Adaptively reacting to the duration of the original signal, the sustain
is shortened more musically than with fixed release times and a drumset is
freed from any crosstalk quickly and effectively.
For example, patch a mono loop through two channels of the Transient De-
signer and pan fully left and right in the mix. Process the left channel with
increased ATTACK and reduced SUSTAIN while you adjust the right chan-
nel the opposite way and you get very special stereo loop sounds. You have
to try this to appreciate what it sounds like, but expect to hear a lot of un-
usual stereo movement.
acoustic level of a snare is expanded to approximately +4 dB by increasing
the attack value, the effective increase of peak levels in the overall mix is
merely about 0.5 dB to 1 dB.
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