On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 03:54 PM, Burkhard Ritter wrote: Get a mono synth, use a saw tooth or triangle wave, fiddle with the cuttoff of the LPF and tweak the resonance to your liking. Stick a compressor in front of it when you record. Good bass all around. -lee

--- Frank Barknecht <fbar(a)footils.org> wrote: Not familiar with SC1 but maybe it's similar to SC4? It's all arbitrary and depends on the instruments relationship with everything around it but this can create a controlable instrument. attack; 100 release; 650 threshold; -30 ratio; 4:1 Attack controls the amount of time it takes before the compressor starts working. Release how quickly it stops working Threshold when it starts ratio 1:1 level is one decibal in equals one decibal out, 4:1 is four decibal in to cause one decibal increase but when this occurs is dictated by the Threshold. So to test, ram the ratio to the extreme 20:1 and throw the threshold up and down all the way. There should be an output meter that shows gain reduction. You'll see the meter report what you're causing and that'll probably help you begin to hear what the compressor is doing. If you're talking about a bass drum and want that beater slap then stick a gate infront of the compressor and use the opening of the gate for tonal/shaping--a tight threshold with a long decay. I'm not familiar with SC1 but I know SC4 and it's an effective compressor. ron Somehow I didn't hear any difference. ______footils.org__ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com

--- Frank Barknecht <fbar(a)footils.org> wrote: I was confused about the SC series anyway. My familiarity is with what's in JAMin. Reguardless you can put a distinct gate in front of the compressor. But that's more of a drum thing. Basically you're controling audio energy. If you turn up the volume, the energy becomes chaotic. The setting and principles should help out. I just looked and there's meters for some of the SC compressors. They're definitely helpful when learning to hear how a particular compressor behaves. They're all different. Incidentally, I use compression on almost everything albeit it's often very little and sometimes it's just for an added gain stage. ron ______footils.org__ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com

Levi Burton wrote: i heard some amazing bass sounds from alsa modular synth with fons' moog filters on linuxtag - i'm sure mana could send an example patch, if it's not already included in the ams tarball. -- All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations. -- Charter of the United Nations, Article 2.4 Jörn Nettingsmeier Kurfürstenstr 49, 45138 Essen, Germany http://spunk.dnsalias.org (my server) http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/ (Linux Audio Developers)