《berklee_pro_tools_mixingamp;M》.pdf

FREE music lessons from Berklee College of Music Mixing and Mastering with Pro Tools Lesson 3: Pro Tools Mixing: Dynamics Overview This lesson is excerpted from an online course. While the navigation links on each page are not active, all of the multimedia interactions are. Have fun! Check out B for more lessons just like this one. Berkleemusic Home Syllabus Discussion Help Course Home - Lesson 3 - Topic 4 Page 1 Lesson 3 Intro to Dynamics: Gates and Expanders Topic 1 Topic 2 Topic 3 Dynamics processors are essential in mixing. In a typical pop music production, most of the Activity 1 tracks have some kind of dynamic processing going on. Dynamics processors include: Topic 4 Page 1 Page 2 gates expanders (downward and upward) Page 3 compressors Page 4 limiters Page 5 duckers Activity 2 de-essers Topic 5 Activity 3 The DigiRack plug-ins include all of these except an upward expander and a ducker. Activity 4 Activity 5 Dynamics Processor basics Topic 6 All dynamics processors operate on the same basic principle. In a dynamics processor, you set an Course Contents amplitude threshold, and the dynamics processor responds to the signal based on the signals relationship to the threshold. Compressors, limiters, de-essers, and duckers act upon the signal Syllabus when it exceeds the threshold, while gates and downward expanders act upon signal