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Analog Elemental Series
Transient Designer | Applications
Guitars
Use the Transient Designer on guitars to soften the sound by lowering 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 distor-
tion.
Heavy distortion also leads to very long sustain. The sound tends to become mushy; simply
reduce SUSTAIN to change that. If you, however, 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.
Bass: Staccato vs. Legato
Speaking of bass: Imagine a too sluggishly played bass track ... you may not have to re-record
it: Reduce the SUSTAIN until you can hear clear gaps between the downbeats—the legato will
turn into a nice staccato, driving the rhythm-section forward.
Ambience
A common problem especially with tracks that are recorded and mixed in different studios:
Backings lack of ambience, and finding a reverb that “matches” takes time ... so simply
emphasize the original ambience by turning up the Transient Designer’s SUSTAIN control.
And the opposite problem, too much ambience, is similarly simply solved with the opposite
processing — just reduce SUSTAIN.
Keyboards & Sampler
Sounds in keyboards and samples are usually highly compressed and maintain only little of
natural dynamics. Increase the ATTACK values to re-gain a more natural response character-
istic. The sounds occupy less space in the mix and appear more identifiable even at lower
volumes.
Post Production
When dealing with overdubs in movies you can easily add more punch and definition to effect
sounds from any sample library.
The same applies to outdoor recordings that suffer from poor microphone positioning—
simply optimize them afterwards.
Mastering
Like with any good thing, you also have to know where not to use it. For example, using a
Transient Designer in mastering is not recommended, as it is rarely a good idea to treat a
whole mix at once. Instead, treat individual elements within the mix.