Month: April 2009

  • Getting creative with Multi-Band Compressors

    What many people don’t realise is that conveniently bundled into each multi-band compressor is a multi-band crossover that splits the overall spectrum into two or more frequency bands – 4 or 5 bands are quite common nowadays. This gives us the ability to do some cool tricks in our digital audio workstation of choice. For…

  • Making your own reverb Impulses

    For those who aren’t in the know about Impulse or Convolution reverbs, they take a “snapshot” of the ambience of a room or other space (or even audio equipment) that can then be used within a specialised reverb plug-in. (eg Space Designer, Altiverb, Waves IR1, TL Space, Voxengo Pristine Space, SIR, Nebula) This gives a…