Re: Automation- Volume fader
2014/07/18 22:48:59
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That's most likely digital clipping.
Does the red clip indicator light up in the track you are working on?
Here's the fun part. The clipping may not be occurring in that particular track. Levels are cumulative.
If you have several tracks maxed out, the sum of all of them is virtually guaranteed to clip, and you get the crackles.
Work around? Just use good practice.
Route all of your track outputs(and bus outputs to your master bus. There, you can keep an eye on your overall level.
I like to drop Voxengo SPAN(a free spectrum analyzer) in the master bus. This is a good indicator of when things are getting out of hand.
It also shows where problem frequencies might be. The project may not seem loud, but you might have too much energy at a certain frequency. Judicious use of EQ and compressors/limiters on the individual tracks can help tame this. Bottom line, clipping is clipping. It doesn't sound good.
The work around is not really a work around. It's honing your skills to properly balance all the stuff that is flying around in your project.
More than once, I have killed off the envelopes, dragged all the faders down, and slowly brought them back up.
Watch the master bus. Adjust EQ to suite.
You will probably find that the overall mix sounds much better with individual tracks at a much lower level than you might think they need to be at.
Hope that helps.
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