RackPack: Transient Designer
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• The Transient Designer is a perfect alternative to noise gates in
live drum miking. Adaptively reacting to the duration of the origi-
nal signal, the sustain is shortened more musically than with fixed
release times and a drumset is freed from any crosstalk quickly and
effectively.
• Create unusual dynamic effects including new and interesting pan
effects. For example, patch a mono loop through two channels of the
Transient Designer and pan fully left and right in the mix. Process
the left channel with increased ATTACK and reduced SUSTAIN while
you adjust the right channel the opposite way and you get very spe-
cial stereo loop sounds. You have to try this to appreciate what it
sounds like, but expect to hear a lot of unusual stereo movement.
• Enjoy an amazingly simple integration of drum sounds into a mix. If
the acoustic level of a snare is expanded to approxi4 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.
Drums: Ambience
If your drums happen to sound as if the room mics have been placed in
a shoe closet, the Transient Designer can immediately turn that sound
into the ambience of an empty warehouse. Just send the stereo room
mics through two Transient Designer modules in LINK mode and crank
the ATTACK control to emphasize the first wave.
Now slowly increase SUSTAIN values to bring up a “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.
Drums: Ambience
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