Hi All,
I have some beginner questions about when using VU Meter in a project which I'd be grateful for any advice on. I believe that the main reason for using the plugin is to leave headroom on the master channel and to avoid clipping.
I have a drum bus with individual tracks for each drum element, bass bus, melody bus, fx bus and vocal bus all routed to master channel. Just wondering how to best use the plugin across the individual tracks and buses for the best (or intended) results.
1) Is normal / good practice to put an instance on every track? Just taking the drums group as an example, would I put an instance on each track for every drum element (e.g kick track, snare track, etc etc) and then have them linked (using group function) to another instance on the drums bus? Is there any point to this or can I just use one instance on the drums bus itself?
2) At what stage in the creation process (and device chain) is it intended to be used?
- When creating a new element/track and before any other processing is applied? i.e the first plugin insert on the track to set the level to (e.g) -18dB before any other processing takes place? So essentially all new elements in the project would be set to reference value of -18dB as the first job ?
- After all other processing has been applied i.e the last plugin insert on the track to achieve (e.g) -18dB?
- After arranging is complete and to get all levels aligned back to a reference value of (e.g) -18dB (with faders at default) so then the faders can be used to (re?)balance the mix elements?
Thanks,
X20
I have some beginner questions about when using VU Meter in a project which I'd be grateful for any advice on. I believe that the main reason for using the plugin is to leave headroom on the master channel and to avoid clipping.
I have a drum bus with individual tracks for each drum element, bass bus, melody bus, fx bus and vocal bus all routed to master channel. Just wondering how to best use the plugin across the individual tracks and buses for the best (or intended) results.
1) Is normal / good practice to put an instance on every track? Just taking the drums group as an example, would I put an instance on each track for every drum element (e.g kick track, snare track, etc etc) and then have them linked (using group function) to another instance on the drums bus? Is there any point to this or can I just use one instance on the drums bus itself?
2) At what stage in the creation process (and device chain) is it intended to be used?
- When creating a new element/track and before any other processing is applied? i.e the first plugin insert on the track to set the level to (e.g) -18dB before any other processing takes place? So essentially all new elements in the project would be set to reference value of -18dB as the first job ?
- After all other processing has been applied i.e the last plugin insert on the track to achieve (e.g) -18dB?
- After arranging is complete and to get all levels aligned back to a reference value of (e.g) -18dB (with faders at default) so then the faders can be used to (re?)balance the mix elements?
Thanks,
X20
Statistics: Posted by Xenon20 — Thu Aug 22, 2024 5:13 pm — Replies 0 — Views 23