Other deal with the overall processor output – Gain, Trim and Dither. The Makeup control allows selection between manual mode and Auto Makeup.
Finally there are 4 general compression behavior controls – Adaptive (Explained further in the next chapter), Release – Select between Waves ARC – Auto Release Control to a manually set release. Behavior – Opto or Electro modes affect the nature of the release. Knee - soft or hard knee or any value in between.
QUICKSTART
To start off, Waves provide a selection of factory presets. These can mostly serve as good starting points for applying MultiBand Dynamics. As this is not an effects processor the actual settings have to be program dependant and most mastering engineers would prefer to manually set the processor and not rely on ready made settings. The processor defaults and presets offer nice scaling of the Time Constants Attack, Release in relation to their Band’s Wavelength providing slower settings to lower bands and faster values to higher. Other controls are set in the presets to provide some showcase of possible modes and different combinations.
•Start off using the Processor defaults.
•Play Music through.
•For general MultiBand Compression first set the Range in all bands to – 6dB by dragging the Master Range control downwards. This will assure that the gain adjustment will be Attenuation or Compression and the maximal attenuation will not exceed a 6dB reduction.
•Now set your nominal per band thresholds. Use the peak energy in each band to set the nominal threshold to the peak value.
•Now you can drag down the master Threshold to set the general compression. You can choose to engage Auto Makeup after setting the nominal thresholds and this way further threshold manipulation will preserve relative loudness and you will hear the compression rather the change in loudness.
•Adjust the per band gains to satisfy or qualify with your idea of “flat” Equalization.
•Play the whole program, or at least the loudest passages and hit the Trim button to makeup the global output gain buy the its Margin to the full scale.
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