Re: Possibly a very obvious, and maybe stupid question about setting lead vocal levels
Keybaord commanders are still quicker than all of that. But that requires to be set up ahead of time. On Mar 26, 2015, at 1:40 PM, Chris Norman chris.norm...@googlemail.com wrote: Talking of tips… I know this isn’t in any way Pro Tools related, but as we’re tipping anyways… I just found out you can hit VO-D to go to the dock, then start typing the name of the application you want to switch too, then hit enter… Much faster than either CMD+Tab, or Jumplists under windows. HTH, Take care, Chris Norman On 26 Mar 2015, at 20:13, Scott Chesworth scottcheswo...@gmail.com mailto:scottcheswo...@gmail.com wrote: I think it's more valuable because it'll allow you to get away from the keyboard, and into a better position to do whatever it is you're gonna be doing once the actual recording starts. Just a bit less switching between frames of mind, if that's not too hippy. Scott On 3/26/15, Chris Norman chris.norm...@googlemail.com mailto:chris.norm...@googlemail.com wrote: Well, just means you can sing one note at a certain loudness for say 10 seconds, and you can reliably determine what level it's at. Cheers, Take care, Chris Norman On 26 Mar 2015, at 19:59, Scott Chesworth scottcheswo...@gmail.com mailto:scottcheswo...@gmail.com wrote: Nope. Hitting something harder basically means sending a louder signal into it. In PT, a little boost of clip gain is usually the best way to do that if it's required. Chris's hotspot tip is golden btw. Need to remember that one myself next time I'm tracking in PT. Hth Scott On 3/26/15, Christopher-Mark Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com mailto:clgillan...@gmail.com wrote: When we say hitting a compressor harder, I've never quite understood what that exactly means. Are we saying that we're basically raising the speed of the attack, therefore making it kick in sooner? Chris. - Original Message - From: Scott Chesworth scottcheswo...@gmail.com mailto:scottcheswo...@gmail.com To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 3:33 PM Subject: Re: Possibly a very obvious, and maybe stupid question about setting lead vocal levels When I'm recording myself (not something I'm a fan of), I just play it uber safe with the meters and concentrate on the actual performance. It's too easy to get distracted. I'd say set levels using the chorus and the climax you mentioned, maybe take a slightly longer run at that part to make sure you're ramping up as much as you're likely to during an actual take. If your peaks are where you want them to be during those sections, the verses and other quieter parts will be gravy as we say here. If you're still nervous, back off the gain a smidgen for safety. Assuming you've got a relatively clean signal path, a couple DB less on the way in isn't gonna do anything that can't be compensated for with a touch of clip gain later on in the process should you discover that you need to hit a compressor a little harder. Good luck Scott On 3/26/15, Christopher-Mark Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com mailto:clgillan...@gmail.com wrote: This might seem to most of you like a very very obvious question, and yeah, I know ultimately at the end of the day, probably what it's gonna boil down to is, Just listen and use your ears, but I have a song I'm going to be recording. It really doesn't have much dynamic volume changes in the lead vocal. Don't get me wrong, there is! a climax to the song, but pretty much, for what it's worth, the song stays fairly close to the same level throughout. If it helps, so you all can listen to it on Youtube or something, the song is called Mercy Said No, and it's by Greg Long. Anyway, I don't want to clip during my recording, and obviously I want enough wiggleroom before applying any compression, or the like to that vocal track. I want to come in probably notch peek around -12DB, no more than -10 pushing it. That said, seeing this song really doesn't seem to change much in dynamics, again, it does, but not very much... what is therefore probably the best way of doing a sound check? I know how to look at my meters, and yes, I do have them set to infinity, so that they hold at the peek until I reset them, but what I'm saying more is, how do I determine what part of the song is probably the loudest, as I hear that is really when setting mike levels where you want to aim. I hear you really want to sing the part of the song where you feel you're going to spike the highest level. But if the song doesn't have much dynamics, then do I just shoot over all for -12, or is there a little trick to this. What my fear is, is that I'm gonna not strain, but seeing the chorus does get ever so slightly high for me, I'm gonna have to push a bit. Also to get the emotion I need, I'll have to push. Again, I did, not! say strain, big
waves tune
cool man. I guess the main question is did you get it to work. if so, how accessible did you find it. some have said that it used to be in accessible. I can seem to get to the controls of the plugin if i apply it to the track through audio sweet. not sure if i have all the controls. The thing is, when i select a key, and then go to process audio, it doesn’t seem to change things much, But i think it’s doing something, But i I’ve played with things like scale, and range, also pitch position. Any information on waves tune from anyone would be very much appreciated. I will concidder autotune if waves tune does not work. t,pain.10111 can anyone tell me if t.pain is comparrable to autotune. or am i better to invest in antares. I’m not necessarily after the auto tune effect. Just need good retuning. On 27 Mar 2015, at 2:46 pm, Poppa Bear heavens4r...@gmail.com wrote: Honestly Steve I haven't used it in about 18 months, but if I remember when I'm in there I will crank it up. Maybe try starting a new thread on it. -Original Message- From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Sparrow Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 7:47 PM To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Numb pad is still down i also have waves tune. but have not quite found how to get it to work properly. How ever all of the controls seem to be accessible and i can find the process audio button. But i’d be interested to know how you use it properly. Is it just a matter of changing the key to get it to properly change the note. What other settings am i looking for to make it do the job. On 27 Mar 2015, at 1:23 pm, Poppa Bear heavens4r...@gmail.com wrote: It is marketed as a T-pain auto tune affect and not so much a pitch correction, so I couldn't tell you, I have only used it that way. I also have wave tune, wave light and an older version of Atari's auto tune, but not all of the controls are usable in that version. I just try and whip my clients into singing usable takes, LOL. -Original Message- From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Sparrow Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 12:39 PM To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Numb pad is still down does it do a good job of retuning vocals On 27 Mar 2015, at 6:15 am, Poppa Bear heavens4r...@gmail.com wrote: It was the T-pain affect from Izotope. HTH -Original Message- From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Sparrow Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 11:21 AM To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Numb pad is still down Hey by the way poppa. What was the name of that pitch correction plugin you use. you told me about it once before, i did google it, and from what i can see what ever it was called it seemed it was not available anymore, but i’d be interested to do another search for it. auto tune is just so expensive, $350 or something like that. with all the other plugs i have to bye to get operational i need to budget where i can if possible. Steve On 26 Mar 2015, at 4:27 pm, Poppa Bear heavens4r...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Steve, really nice to have it back working. I've had a few other slips like that change things before. -Original Message- From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Sparrow Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 8:37 PM To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Numb pad is still down hey poppa that’s mad, but damn good when those crazy things happen. I’ve had similar wonderfull strokes of luck like that. Glad you got it sorted. Steve On 26 Mar 2015, at 2:45 am, Poppa Bear heavens4r...@gmail.com wrote: Just an update on my num pad issue, the other day my key board was slipping and my hand pressed multiple keys when I caught it and next thing I knew the numb pad functions were working again. Apparently some key combination changed the functions back by accident. Pretty crazy. -Original Message- From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Slau Halatyn Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 2:36 PM To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Numb pad is still down Papa, It sounds like there's a system level problem with your num pad. There are no commands to turn off the num pad in Pro Tools. It's either classic, Transport or Shuttle (on HD systems). Apart from that, num lock and num pad commander are the only other variables. Does num pad commander work correctly? Can you enter values from the num pad? Can you enter counter values? are you using an extended keyboard or is it a separate num pad? USB? BlueTooth? Slau On Jan 6, 2015, at 5:44 PM, Poppa Bear heavens4r...@gmail.com wrote: I’ve taken a break for a few days in the studio, but my numb pad PT commands are still not working. Rew,
DBFS/LKFS measurement in Pro Tools 9
Hi all, I am working with Pro Tools 9. For many years, I have used the gain plugin to determine peak and rms levels. Now I am moving into work which requires me to read the DBFS peak and LKFS levels. Is there a way to determine these levels on a track in PT 9? Any help would be appreciated. Friendly, Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Pro Tools Accessibility group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: waves tune
Hello Steve, I have used it mostly in the same way, by selecting audio and applying the effect to the selection through the audio sweet versus placing the plugin on an insert. One way to see if you are making changes is to copy audio to another track, apply the change with Wave tune to one of the tracks and then do a side by side comparison by muting one or the other of the tracks. If you find the values changing in the controls then you are making changes. I use a control surface to make changes in the parameters. -Original Message- From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Sparrow Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 12:34 PM To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: waves tune cool man. I guess the main question is did you get it to work. if so, how accessible did you find it. some have said that it used to be in accessible. I can seem to get to the controls of the plugin if i apply it to the track through audio sweet. not sure if i have all the controls. The thing is, when i select a key, and then go to process audio, it doesn’t seem to change things much, But i think it’s doing something, But i I’ve played with things like scale, and range, also pitch position. Any information on waves tune from anyone would be very much appreciated. I will concidder autotune if waves tune does not work. t,pain.10111 can anyone tell me if t.pain is comparrable to autotune. or am i better to invest in antares. I’m not necessarily after the auto tune effect. Just need good retuning. On 27 Mar 2015, at 2:46 pm, Poppa Bear heavens4r...@gmail.com wrote: Honestly Steve I haven't used it in about 18 months, but if I remember when I'm in there I will crank it up. Maybe try starting a new thread on it. -Original Message- From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Sparrow Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 7:47 PM To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Numb pad is still down i also have waves tune. but have not quite found how to get it to work properly. How ever all of the controls seem to be accessible and i can find the process audio button. But i’d be interested to know how you use it properly. Is it just a matter of changing the key to get it to properly change the note. What other settings am i looking for to make it do the job. On 27 Mar 2015, at 1:23 pm, Poppa Bear heavens4r...@gmail.com wrote: It is marketed as a T-pain auto tune affect and not so much a pitch correction, so I couldn't tell you, I have only used it that way. I also have wave tune, wave light and an older version of Atari's auto tune, but not all of the controls are usable in that version. I just try and whip my clients into singing usable takes, LOL. -Original Message- From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Sparrow Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 12:39 PM To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Numb pad is still down does it do a good job of retuning vocals On 27 Mar 2015, at 6:15 am, Poppa Bear heavens4r...@gmail.com wrote: It was the T-pain affect from Izotope. HTH -Original Message- From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Sparrow Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 11:21 AM To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Numb pad is still down Hey by the way poppa. What was the name of that pitch correction plugin you use. you told me about it once before, i did google it, and from what i can see what ever it was called it seemed it was not available anymore, but i’d be interested to do another search for it. auto tune is just so expensive, $350 or something like that. with all the other plugs i have to bye to get operational i need to budget where i can if possible. Steve On 26 Mar 2015, at 4:27 pm, Poppa Bear heavens4r...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Steve, really nice to have it back working. I've had a few other slips like that change things before. -Original Message- From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Sparrow Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 8:37 PM To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Numb pad is still down hey poppa that’s mad, but damn good when those crazy things happen. I’ve had similar wonderfull strokes of luck like that. Glad you got it sorted. Steve On 26 Mar 2015, at 2:45 am, Poppa Bear heavens4r...@gmail.com wrote: Just an update on my num pad issue, the other day my key board was slipping and my hand pressed multiple keys when I caught it and next thing I knew the numb pad functions were working again. Apparently some key combination changed the functions back by accident. Pretty crazy. -Original Message- From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Slau Halatyn Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015
