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When your project is done, its sound may be not good due to the
can cause distortion or saturation, in particular this happens when the
reaches the
them can have those high peaks, disturbing channels less intense. For these
reasons you need to
the Master one.
Indeed, the
default. This is one of the plugins used to improve sound in output.
Two main techniques are used to improve sound:
of them limit any sound that overcomes a volume threshold, especially to avoid
distortion. The only difference is that
much more than what the compressor can do.
Mixer slots
When your project is finished, and you have a channel that risks saturation,
select its
On top, you have a big graph that shows how the Limiter is affecting the sound
output. The intensity of the sound in output is represented on the
time. The
time by time, and this is different from the general gain you apply through
the
general gain increases, the violet line increases, and so the white line follows.
There is also a
the
output sound.
As long as the output sound has peaks under the Ceiling, the limiter doesn't
do anything, and leaves sound as it is. But
the limiter limits the effective gain in order to keep such peaks under the
Ceiling level.
line you see near the peaks. In this case, the output peaks are represented in
two colors: a
violet gain applied in full, and a
affected
So to reduce any saturation, you can set the gain you like, and reduce the
Ceiling level
At the bottom, you have other important knobs. For example you can use the
Saturation knob
used to set the time used to reduce the white line level that limits the high
peaks. The
back to its original level. Always check the overall white curve and its
transitions. You also have the
the Limiter attenuation after the high peak.
The
slightly reduce strong peaks. For this you can use a plugin called
Compressor
Use
(here called
overcomes this level will be reduced according to the
the peak is not touched, and a high ratio reduces more the peak volume.
There are other plugins you can use, much more advanced. The plugins just seen
do limit or compress acting on
like
different ways according to the sound band. Let's see Maximus for example.
Maximus
acts on the lowest frequencies,
yellow) on the highest frequencies and
signal. Each of these parts are completely independent.
First of all, on the extreme left, you have an
a determined volume for the
give to the
More on the right, a bigger graph shows you how Maximus is acting on the signal.
Below the graph you can set what to see. The green waveforms are the
signals
Then you have three main lines: the
represents the gain that Maximus applies to the sound; the
that is the gain applied to the input sound, before being processed by Maximus,
and the
limitations introduced by Maximus. You can set both
the knobs at the bottom. The
graph: if the input waveform overcomes it, it will be limited. You can set the
ceiling through the
to avoid flat waveforms that can cause square waves and distortion in output.
You also have the
Limiter plugin.
Each section has its own Gain, Ceilings and Attack/Release levels. You can
apply these settings
signal. To define the
extreme right.
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