#WAVES VOCAL RIDER REVIEW MANUAL#
#WAVES VOCAL RIDER REVIEW PRO#
#WAVES VOCAL RIDER REVIEW SOFTWARE#

Many programs have calibrated scales and grids everywhere and you can just see how far short or louder it is. A quick check while the lower phrase is playing on the VU's will show how far short it was eg -3 db. A phrase nearby might be lower in height. Take a phrase that is a good decent level and calibrate your VU's so they are just peaking 0 db. The vocals are mainly an rms part of the sound so the height of the wave is a good representation of volume levels.

#WAVES VOCAL RIDER REVIEW SOFTWARE#

I have been a long believer of having a second editing software package to be able to do a lot of more detailed work on tracks etc.

#WAVES VOCAL RIDER REVIEW MANUAL#

It was reference to using an editor program to do some preliminary manual editing before dropping the track back into your session. Hi mixsit I was not referring to any magic automatic process or anything like that. Could you expand on that a little please? I looked at their manual for what might be the tool or method you meant. I was intrigued by your ref to using AuditionВ rather than automation. Very little compression required and certainly no automation required either. Then save that with a new name, drag into the session and you are done. Then just go in and edit phrases up and down in gain as required so you end up with a nice new vocal track that is all even. If you have got real VU meters you can set them up so they are just peaking 0 dbu when the vocals are at the right level. Then open that up inside an editor such as Adobe Audition.

#WAVES VOCAL RIDER REVIEW PRO#

Or if you really want it I suppose one could always use their Mac and Pro Tools setups instead.ДЇor me I still find the best way to sort this type of thing out is to comp the vocal track and turn that into a single clip. Well that rules that out I suppose but maybe they might bring out a VST version hopefully. I think he said it works better than the Waves product. Here is a review of it in May Sound On Sound: While most DAWs have some form of clip gain system, this is automated, quicker, and especially great for performers with less than stellar microphone technique.There is more than one vocal rider plugin. When used as intended, Vocal Rider would live at the end of your plugin chain, but I have found it even more useful at the beginning of my chain, as a clean dynamic control providing a consistent level to the rest of my processors. You can tweak the results using the вЂњSensitivityвЂќ dial and write the resulting data to your DAWвЂ™s automation track for further editing if you like. It also accepts a sidechain input, allowing you to keep the relative level of your main signal to the sidechain signal at constant level, thereby riding your vocal in relation to the rest of your mix. The Vocal Rider does just what its name implies: It takes incoming signal and adjusts it to stay inside a certain decibel range. WouldnвЂ™t a plugin that could do that automatically lead us down the slippery slope of removing all the art from mixing? Should we just give up and let the robots mix for us? Doing vocal rides and writing automation is one of the key finishing touches of a mix, in which the mixer uses his or her ear and artistry to keep the vocal right in the sweet spot through the whole song.

Waves vocal rider review