Hi,
I can't register on the avid forums - a bug preventing new registrations (check "I agree to terms" and next page shows error message a field has been left blank).
I know some people on this forum are protools people so I thought i'd ask here.
I'm trying to put together a bit of a tutorial for some new techs. I've recorded pink noise in three 1 second segments; 1st and last segment are at -12dB; middle segment at -6dB.
Compressor settings set to knee 0, attack 300ms, gain 0; ratio 6:1, release 5.0ms, threshold -12dB.
The purpose of this part of the exercise is to show what the attack does. I'm expecting that when the middle section hits the compressor, it will ramp down over a 300ms period. Because this is a 1 second section, this is approx 1/3 of the way in.
To demonstrate the output i'm recording the result to a second track.
Thing is, with this setting it doesn't ever compress. If I change the attack to 10ms I barely get any compression at all - less than db.
is my understanding of attack wrong or is this some kind of flaw in protools ?
Moving onto release, I set the release to 500ms and i'm expecting as soon as the 3rd section hits, the audio will be compressed and ramp up over 500ms - which is approx 1/2 of the last section.
As evidenced in the attached pic, the release is more like 200ms.
As stated, i'm trying to get a visual tutorial going - I have no desire to compress pink noise in a real environment !
Help ?
I can't register on the avid forums - a bug preventing new registrations (check "I agree to terms" and next page shows error message a field has been left blank).
I know some people on this forum are protools people so I thought i'd ask here.
I'm trying to put together a bit of a tutorial for some new techs. I've recorded pink noise in three 1 second segments; 1st and last segment are at -12dB; middle segment at -6dB.
Compressor settings set to knee 0, attack 300ms, gain 0; ratio 6:1, release 5.0ms, threshold -12dB.
The purpose of this part of the exercise is to show what the attack does. I'm expecting that when the middle section hits the compressor, it will ramp down over a 300ms period. Because this is a 1 second section, this is approx 1/3 of the way in.
To demonstrate the output i'm recording the result to a second track.
Thing is, with this setting it doesn't ever compress. If I change the attack to 10ms I barely get any compression at all - less than db.
is my understanding of attack wrong or is this some kind of flaw in protools ?
Moving onto release, I set the release to 500ms and i'm expecting as soon as the 3rd section hits, the audio will be compressed and ramp up over 500ms - which is approx 1/2 of the last section.
As evidenced in the attached pic, the release is more like 200ms.
As stated, i'm trying to get a visual tutorial going - I have no desire to compress pink noise in a real environment !
Help ?
