El 01/10/13 00:54, Brian Fay escribió:
Are you using a pop filter or windscreen or anything in front of the mic? Maybe that could help filter out some of the super-loud plosive and fricative sounds.
No beatboxer uses a pop filter or windscreen... unless he/she is at a recording studio.
Moving further away from the mic would definitely lower the volume, too (the SM58 is a cardioid mic, so it has proximity effect, where bass gets emphasized the closer you are to the mic). I guess the proximity effect will actually sound pretty nice on the kicks, but it also would explain why the peaks are so high.
Yes, the proximity is very important. Unfortunatly, I can't move further away the mic.
Well, I wrote in DIY2 thread in Forum, because I want to use Hardoff's compressor and I wanted his opinion, too. Because, after several tests, I realized that I can't get rid of the first peak of a kick (more or less, signal = 4). So, I thought about using the compressor with attack and release at lowest and, inmediatly after that, something like [expr~ (tanh($v1/1.5))*1.5]. So, tanh() "compress" the highest peaks to 1.5, but it doesn't distort so much the sound.
Can anybody tell me if I am very wrong? Is the math correct?
As when writting the arrays to disk, Pd has to normalized them to 1, I can't see really the difference in a sound editor, between the original and the compressed one.
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Mario Mey <mariomey@gmail.com mailto:mariomey@gmail.com> wrote:
Now, I am checking volumes of my looper patch. I had to raise [*~ 4] the volume of the mic, to get a razonable volume, compared to a song file, for example. But, using this looper patch, I make beatbox. So, kicks and snares from my mouth get in the mic. And, using a visual array to test it, I realize that the kicks and snares are so much higher volume than the vocals. The patch has FXs with feedbacks, so, they can make signal > 1. So, at the end of the patch, there's [expr tanh($v1)] to to avoid that... tanh() is simpler than a a compressor, but it loose some sounds (I think). Or I should trust in tanh()? Multiple choice: 1- Use tanh() in the input, after adc~ and before dac~. 2- Use a compressor patch in the input, after adc~ (and tanh() before dac~) 3- Use a compressor at the end of the patch, before dac~ 4- Stay as it is now... Also, I can't spend more CPU process... What do you recommend me to use? Thanks. _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at <mailto:Pd-list@iem.at> mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list