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RackPack: Transient Designer
Guitars
Use the Transient Designer on guitars to soften the sound by lower-
ing the ATTACK. Increase ATTACK for in-the-face sounds, which is very
useful and works particularly well for picking guitars. Or blow life and
juice into quietly played guitar parts.
Distorted guitars usually are very compressed, thus not very dynamic.
Simply increase the ATTACK to get a clearer sound with more precision
and better intonation despite any distortion.
Heavy distortion also leads to very long sustain. The sound tends to
become mushy; simply reduce SUSTAIN to change that. If you, how-
ever, want to create soaring guitar solos that would make even David
Gilmour blush, just crank up the SUSTAIN control to the max and there
you go.
With miked acoustic guitars you can emphasize the room sound by
turning up SUSTAIN. If you want the guitars to sound more intimate
and with less ambience, simply reduce SUSTAIN.
The Transfer Of Dynamic Structures
This application requires two modules in the basic and four modules in
stereo mode. Feed a master module with a kick drum track and select
high ATTACK values. Don‘t care about the output signal, it is not used
or plugged anywhere.
Now feed the second module with a keyboard track for example. Run
this second module as slave in LINK mode. The attack of the kick drum
will now be applied to the keyboard track. If you vary the ATTACK or
the SUSTAIN of the master module you can easily optimize the results.
This method is also very useful to make kick drum and bass fit
together like a hand and glove. The bass simply receives the attack of
the kick drum. If kick drum and bass are already tight, added ATTACK
on the kick drum track emphasizes the transfer of drum attacks to the
bass track. If kick drum and bass are less tight, SUSTAIN variations on
the kick drum track allow you to “catch” the bass and get it closer and
tighter to the kick drum.
Applications
Guitars, The Transfer of Dynamic Structures
