Plugins1 - Practice Printing Effects

Overview

For this assignment, we want you to learn and practice how to print dynamic processing on to a new track. The important thing is to work with RAW audio files where dynamics have not already been significantly applied. Lucky for us, Roey Izhaki has plenty of audio files to work with from this weeks textbook chapter.

Instructions

1. Download this uncompressed Snare Example here: Roey Izhaki - Ch17 - Uncompressed Snare.WAV
   • A full collection of CH.17 audio samples can be found here: mixingaudio.com/audio
2. Import the audio file into your DAW
3. Create an audio track with your chosen sound to compress
4. Route the output of that track to three new separate audio tracks using a bus
5. Place a simple compressor on each of the new audio tracks and adjust the settings to:
   • First compressor track: Fast attack, slow release
   • Second compressor track: Slow attack, slow release
   • Third compressor track: Fast attack, fast release
   • Use the same compressor plug-in for all tracks
6. Make sure each compressor's threshold is set so that it is only doing around 5-8dB of gain reduction. Something effective, but not too extreme
   • Set other parameters of the plug-in equally
7. Record the audio on to your compressor tracks
8. Analyze how each setting has affected the audio
   • First listen, then see if it makes sense visually
9. Take a screenshot of your edit window that shows:
   1. The original audio track with the raw audio file
   2. The three new audio tracks with the compressed audio recorded

Submit in Canvas

1. Embed your screenshot image to the Canvas Discussion
   • How to Embed Image Files in Canvas Discussion
2. Write a summary that includes:
   1. A description of your work
   2. The differences sonically and visually between the recorded compressor tracks