Yeah, well, if you claim to be able to tell the difference, let's see if you can differentiate between which effect has been applied in my following test.
First there is the original loop (marked as such), then there are two unidentified loops; one has been EQ'd, the other compressed. Can you REALLY tell which one is which?... without cheating & analysing them in your DAW!
'test 1' was the loop that had EQ applied, whilst 'test 2' was the loop that had compression applied.
Not a single person managed to get that right! So it just goes to show that the difference between EQ and Compression is negligible (obviously not at very extreme settings... but when applied subtly like in my test it's difficult to tell which is which.).
Not a single person managed to get that right! So it just goes to show that the difference between EQ and Compression is negligible (obviously not at very extreme settings... but when applied subtly like in my test it's difficult to tell which is which.).
I don't think so, it's more of a case of 'no one wanted to dignify that with a response'. How can you say that any of those samples sounded similar at all? What are you monitoring on? 2 cups connected with a piece of string? I really can't help but feel that this is a joke.
I don't think so, it's more of a case of 'no one wanted to dignify that with a response'. How can you say that any of those samples sounded similar at all? What are you monitoring on? 2 cups connected with a piece of string? I really can't help but feel that this is a joke.
We're talking about the audio samples in this post:
... They are not actually identical; there are subtle amounts of effect applied to the two 'test' samples.
'test 1' has been EQ'd
'test 2' has been compressed
... but the resultant processed audio is virtually indistinguishable without performing a null test in an audio editor.
Where is the subtle difference? There is a huge amount of difference between them, you could tell the difference between those audio clips listening to them from macbook speakers with your hands over your ears while getting punched in the face from a gorilla.
which started out as a great resource with people sharing there best tips, then midway through got led astray into a heavily convoluted argument that began with semantics & dragged on for a further four pages seemingly just because we were all too stubborn to quit!
i find that hard to beleive. thanks for the examples though. it is really quite obvious, then again, so was the super obscure sample of madonna playing the exact same drum break that has been used ELEVENDY BILLION TIMES already in three galaxies even. i kid
I CONSTANTLY have this plug as the last thing on my master output, and CONSTANTLY have the GUI open (possible in Logic, but not Ableton (which only lets you see guis on the highlighted track).).
Finding this plug was a revelation for me.
Please tell me I'm mistaken because my head about exploded on this one. On the first page of Ableton Live's preferences pop-up, there's a checkbox called "Show multiple plugins", which will allow you to keep open as many plugin gui windows as you want at time, and position them anywhere as you switch between tracks, view, other devices, etc. It drives my crazy that Ableton has done such a poor job at disseminating this kind of absolutely basic, essential information about their product! (And I know this is a problem because I've heard lots of mentions of people not knowing this.)
Another commmon misconception along the same lines is that 'you're stuck with the zoom-variable edit grid', when (in reality) fixed-grid options are available on the same menu. And one more I didn't figure out for like a year: you can grab the edges and resize the boxes around Live's meters in the track mixer area of Session View to reveal more detailed metering. Drag up to show all the track's peak-hold data, and a numerical indication of that track's fader level, and drag to the right to see 6db increment ticks on the gain meter, and drag even farther to reveal actual numerical values.
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