Week of October 31, 2010

Here are Monday's and Wednesday's notes:


• First, patched Drew’s bass through the Millenia. Millenia out into ProTools 1, then 3 & 4 out to 2 Track in. Then, to get it into the box, PT 1 (A1) out to the Line 1 Inputs (#), then the Channel Insert Sends of the same # to the Millenia In, then the Millenia out into PT2 (A2)
o Can turn down fader in PT to make it so the signal doesn’t distort (as well as input/output of Millenia).
o Millenia as unity gain amplifier
o 3:1 ratio, everything else at noon
o Fastest release, fastest attack, 3:1 ratio, everything at noon
o Fast Attack, long release, 3:1 ratio, everything else at noon
 Pre-recorded track is going out A1
 Incoming track is coming in A2
 We’re monitoring out of A3-4
o Threshold, attack, releast at 9, ratio is 6:1
o Everything the same, slower attack, slower release
o Same attack (30ms), low threshold, release about a second, 9:1
 Attack is slow enough, lets the original transient through. Release is slow enough that the compressor wants to go back to non-compression
o 10:1 ratio, fastest attack, slowest release
o Medium-fast attack, medium release, 6:1 ratio tends to work out best to get something of a decent dynamic range.

• New bass line!, with same patching
o 10:1 ratio, fastest attack, slowest release
o Super-low threshold,





• to get duller sound on snare (thud), you’d have a fast attack. For a crack, slow attack, Higher ratio makes th EQ more dull
• fast attack with medium release adds a lot of punch to it.
• To make everything more even, low threshold, pretty high ratio.
 Snare is going out A1 into channel 40
 Through Millenia, into A2
 2 track is A3-4
• Fully clockwise with threshold, everything compressed, super fast attack and release, 10:1 ratio
o Tons of room because release is so fast, everything rushes up to unity gain
• Fastest attack, .5 sec release, 10:1, full threshold
• Medium attack, medium release, 10:1, full threshold


• Threshold on full, attack at 10, release at .7, ratio at 8:1
o Does a pretty decent job with vox. Unifies pieces, glues them together.
• 4:1 ratio, 2 second release, 2ms attack, threshold at about noon.
o So much louder because the threshold is so much higher. Less is getting copressed, and the makeup gain wasn’t changed. To get it back to ‘normal’, lower the threshold or turn down the makeup gain
o Remember, threshold and ratio are a function of eachother.


• A lot of compressors have automatic gain reduction so it’s one less thing to worry about
• Fast release takes out a lot of the lower frequencies. Slow release keeps them around a lot longer.
• Super fast attack with a high makeup gain is ridiculous, basically.

Snare to be with a lot of room sound
Snare with a lot of wood/crack
Electric bass, crush them to get uniform sound
Bass, how to elongate sustain
Research into pumping and breathing.





In the labs, Andy and I were working a lot with the compressors and the Eventide. We got a lot accomplished, had a lot of fun experimenting with everything, and got some interesting sounds.