[ddots-l] Re: Using the sonitus gate.
- From: "Shawn Brock" <shawn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:57:18 -0700
Hey John,
If you try a preset like the drum loop chopper, you should hear a
difference.
My advice would be to work with the threshold first. Insert the affect on
the guitar's audio track, open the inspector with I, and arrow down until
you see the affects controls. Usually threshold is already showing up as
one of the default controls, but if not you can reassign controls through
the context menu.
You will probably want your threshold pretty high. This all depends on the
dynamics of the guitar playing though.
Shawn Brock
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Schucker" <gwynn@xxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 4:04 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Using the sonitus gate.
Hi all. I want to use the Sonitus gate to take the attack off of a guitar.
Well, any gate really, I just picked the Sonitus gate because the
accessible effects document in CT mentioned it was accessible. I know the
general idea for doing this, get the threshold right, and then play with
the attack setting, and it will eventually fade the guitar in.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to get the gate to do anything. That is, it
doesn't actually seem to change the sound in the slightest. I did try it
as a send to a bus with the gate on, and with the Sonitus delay effect on
it seemed to be making some sort of change, but then when I removed the
delay, nothing. This happens whether I send it to the bus and solo the
bus, with input monitoring on of course, or whether I insert it on the
audio track in question.
It just doesn't seem like changing any of the values, and I've made pretty
drastic changes to attack for instance, does anything to affect the sound
whatsoever. Anybody have any idea what I'm doing wrong here? I had this
problem with their compressor when I had a friend over and we were messing
around with stuff, it didn't seem to do anything either. But for now, I'll
just take getting the gate to do something. It should produce the effect I
want, I've heard it done on piano, if I can get it to do anything at all,
that is.
BTW, I found out about this from The Art and Science of Sound DVDs.
http://www.artandscienceofsound.com
Good stuff, if you're looking for that sort of thing. Oh along similar
lines, there's Killer Home Recording:
http://www.recordingreview.com
They're pdf files that cover the same sort of stuff, in a different way
but also in a fair amount of detail. The two things are good companions to
each other, IMO. The pdf files are accessible BTW, read in Adobe reader
just fine for me.
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