Transient Designer Analog Code
®
Plug-in
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Applications
Drums & Percussions
The processing of drum and percussion sounds is probably the
Transient Designer’s most typical application.
• Emphasize the attack of a kick drum or a loop to increase the
power and presence in the mix.
• Shorten the sustain period of a snare or a reverb-flag in a very
musical way to obtain more transparency in the mix.
• Shorten toms or overheads without physically damping them.
• Adjust the apparent “distance” of the microphone by simply
varying the ATTACK and SUSTAIN values.
• The Transient Designer is a perfect alternative to noise gates.
Since it adapts processing to the original signal, the sustain is
shortened more musically than with fixed release times – within
seconds a drumset is reliably free from crosstalk.
• Enjoy an amazingly simple integration of drum sounds into a
mix. If the 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.
