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Howdy all,<BR>
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I've been having a fight with myself on how to best mix within pd. I'm constantly going back and forth between:<BR>
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<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=1>Keep everything and a lower relative so that the OUT never goes above 100 and the CLIP box never goes red.
<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=2>Follow my ears and make it sound good, ignore the OUT box/button.
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In practice, following #2 yields much better sounding recordings, at least to me. I'm definitely not clipping as there are not aliasing/digi distortion going on. Viewing the file in Audacity mere shows the drums to be the culprit, but as they are so fast, I cant actually hear any clip.<BR>
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Generally, following #1 gives me good sounding mixes, but at way too low of a volume.<BR>
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How do you guys approach doing this? I notice the IN and OUT meters are off by default ..., but I assume that's due to performance reasons. :D<BR>
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I mix everything through separate channels with [vu~]'s using [throw~] and [catch~] objects which are eventually combined into a left and right channel which are sent to the [dac~]. Does anyone have any other tricks such as using scopes etc to help?<BR>
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Alos, I keep setting the drums too loud over and over again. Yves, how do I properly use [compressor~], does [compressor~ 1] have it output at 1.0 or what? I know it works but I don't really understand the -1 to 5 range. Does anyone have any good, fast tricks in pd for good sounding drum compression?<BR>
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Dan Wilcox<BR>
<A HREF="http://danomatika.com">danomatika.com</A><BR>
<A HREF="http://www.robotcowboy.com">robotcowboy.com</A>
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