ampfixer
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How do I add effects for brief durations
I'm working on an audio book and I want to use signal processing to indicate when the narrator is saying something or thinking something. These tracks are anywhere from 4 to 45 minutes long. I want to be able to use effects on sentences and/or individual words to enhance the dialogue.
What's the best way to do this? Right now I can't get my head beyond riding the effect level throughout. There has to be a better way. Thanks.
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Re: How do I add effects for brief durations
2017/03/24 02:14:23
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A good question. Perhaps clone the track, and apply the effect to that track, and use volume automation on the two tracks?
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Re: How do I add effects for brief durations
2017/03/24 04:18:50
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if the effect is say reverb, put your reverb on a bus, create a send to the reverb bus from the track, create an envelope for that send in the track, automate the envelope with nodes.
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Re: How do I add effects for brief durations
2017/03/24 04:45:55
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timidi
if the effect is say reverb, put your reverb on a bus, create a send to the reverb bus from the track, create an envelope for that send in the track, automate the envelope with nodes.
I do that all the time with delay sends, to for example only apply delay to the last word of a phrase etc.
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Re: How do I add effects for brief durations
2017/03/24 13:22:58
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If it's a single effect, and it has an automatable wet/dry control, then the easiest and cleanest way is to automate that parameter via a track envelope on the dialog track.
If it's a combination of effects, create a bus for them and automate either a send envelope on the track or a volume envelope on the bus. This is a little trickier than the first method because you might have to compensate for the volume increase when the fx bus is active.
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Re: How do I add effects for brief durations
2017/03/24 14:52:41
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☄ Helpfulby Mesh 2017/03/24 18:28:57
And if they consist of different effects at different places, with no obvious tail to consider, split the track into clips and apply clip Fx
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Re: How do I add effects for brief durations
2017/03/24 17:11:35
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Thanks for the response. I'm going to test out each of these ideas and see what's best. I have to hit the books to get myself up to speed on most of it because I seldom use any type of automation. Jonesey's idea about clip effects sounds interesting and easy, but I'll try everything you guys suggest. I'm off to do some book learnin' now.
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Re: How do I add effects for brief durations
2017/03/28 16:19:41
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I've done this mostly as James mentions above ... I ended up multing to separate tracks so I could adjust the effect in one place instead of having to adjust for each clip.
So for eaze of tweaking along the way, you could:
- Automate sends to a single effect instance.
- Split the bits that get the effect to a separate track with a single instance of either an insert or send effect.
OTOH, if the parms will be different for each part, then clip FX is the way to go.
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