Hi Dan
Am 22.11.09 21:15 schrieb "Dan Wilcox" unter danomatika@gmail.com:
What do you guys do for your live set? Do you do some sort of EQ/compression on the final stage before going out the the dac~?
This applies only to generated live music, that is not using live input. I usually setup my usual chain of one or two compressors followed by a limiter. When using two compressors, the first one uses rather long attack and release times with rather lower threshold (which does some basic levelling), while the second 'kinks' the peaks by using a short attack and release and a higher threshold. And the limiter does - yeah, limiting.
While being often not a friend of too much post-processing, i found it can help a lot to make the the output sound more balanced and more pleasing to the ear in difficult acoustic situations. I remember once when we had a netpd live session on the radio, i was surprised how punchy even a 'naked' saw can sound (after having passed all the stages, that prepare the signal for broadcasting).
The compressor and limiter mentioned above can be downloaded (and have zexy as a depencency): http://www.netpd.org/Dynlib
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