This time around we take a look at using compression while producing a commercial. I am proposing two light compressors rather than just one compressor. First, when creating the commercial in the multi-track apply light compression to the voice to level it out and then set about mixing the commercial. […]
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This time we continue to look at compression. Having looked at the basics, news showreel and podcast we now look at making radio imaging and sweepers and compression. Compression here depends on the type of radio you’re producing for. CHR radio you can afford to be quite hard with compression, […]
In this episode we look at using compression in podcast production. The golden rule for Podcast is to use as little compression as possible to create an easy listen without creating a pulsing compressed sound. With Podcast you have to consider where your audience is likely to be listening. As […]
Following the introduction to compression I’m going to take a few episodes to look at the different uses of compression during production. In today’s tutorial we’ll be producing a news showreel and that demands light compression so the audio still retains most of its dynamic range. Still to come on […]
In my earlier post about working from home in the Coronavirus pandemic I totally forgot to actually outline the equipment you’ll need! You’ll need an interface to connect your microphone to the computer and convert the analogue signal from your microphone to a digital signal. I’d recommend the Focusrite Scarlet […]
With many people being encouraged to work from home I want to take a look at setting yourself up for working from home. The most important thing right now is to keep yourself safe and give yourself the best chance of remaining healthy. In an ideal world for working from […]
Welcome back to the Audio Journey and we’re looking at compression now. Compression is the reduction of the dynamic range in audio. Dynamic range is the difference between the highest points and lowest points of audio. By adding compression to audio you make it a more consistent volume all through […]
This time we look at something I’ve had a few questions about and that’s the speech volume leveller. It’s essentially a compressor that levels speech up to a target level. There’s three basic controls to set, target level, levelling amount and target dynamic range and these three settings affect the […]
It’s the final (for now) in a three part series on stuttering. In part 24 we looked at basic stuttering, in part 25 we set that basic stutter to a set BPM and in this part we look at some other ways to stutter and glitch audio. As with all […]
In part 1 of the stutter we looked at basic stutters and glitches. This time around we set the stutter to a set BPM. You could calculate the BPM into milliseconds, you could change the time line to be bars and beats or you could use the simple trick of […]