[LAU] Balancing volume between smooth and popping bass

Robert Jonsson spamatica at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 04:45:30 EST 2010


2010/1/13 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 09:58 +0100, Arnold Krille wrote:
>> > Of course you'd need to lower your input
>> > volume to give headroom for the push/pop notes.
>>
>> No, the compressor will lower the volume of the push/pop notes so that you can
>> turn up the overall amplification afterwards.
>>
>> The input should be set as high as possible without distortion on the loudest
>> parts of the signal.
>
> Ah, I was talking about digital compressing (for example, within
> ardour). Wouldn't headroom be needed for that?

If the source is uncompressed you need to allow headroom for the
peaks, so yes. As Arnold points out, this is always true, you need to
keep it from distoriting the loudest parts.
... unless this is an intended effect. ... no rules..

/Robert



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