Production Techniques Flashcards
(27 cards)
What are the Impacts of compression?
- Reduces dynamic range of signal
- High attack can add punch to a signal
- Sidechain compression creates a pumping feel to the signal
- Sidechain compression also creates space for the sidechained instrument
What are the parameters of compression?
- Threshold
- Makeup gain
- Ratio
- Attack
- Release
- Knee
- Sidechain
What is the production impact of gated reverb?
- Gives a sense of space without muddying the mix
- Gate cuts long decay times
What are the parameters of Gated reverb?
- Reverb size
- decay
- threshold
- level
- attack
- release
- floor
What is the production impact of noise gates?
Removes unwanted low-level noise
What are the parameters of noise gates?
- Threshold
- Attack
- Release
- Floor
- Hold
What are the production impacts of limiters?
- Used to increase percieved loudness
- ensures the signal doesn’t clip
- limits dynamic range (is a form of compression)
What are the parameters of a limiter?
- input gain
- ceiling level
What are the production impacts of EQ?
- Boosts / attenuates bands of frequencies
- Creates space for instruments (e.g. cutting the low of cymbals to create space for the kick)
What are the parameters of EQ?
- Resonance
- Cut-off frequency
- filter type
- Boost / attentuation level
What are the production impacts of Delay?
- Creates a stereo image
- Adds atmosphere
- Adds rhythymic emphasis to tracks
- Creates a sense of space
What are the parameters of delay?
- Feedback
-Dry/wet ratio - tempo sync
- Delay time
- ping-pong
- EQ Filter
What are the production impacts of flanger?
- creates phasing (tearing / jet-like)
- Adds movement with the use of an LFO
- Creates a stereo image
What are the parameters of flanger?
- Feedback
- Delay time (Very small, <15ms)
- LFO (rate, amount)
- depth
- dry/wet ratio
What is the production impact of phaser?
- Adds movement with the use of an LFO
- Adds to the stereo image
- Creates phasing (via in-harmonic notches)
What are the parameters of phaser?
- Feedback
- Poles (all-pass filters)
- rate
- depth
- dry/wet ratio
What is the production impact of reverb?
- Adds a sense of space and atmosphere?
- Pushes instruments back in the mix
- Adds stereo width
What are the parameters of reverb?
- Type of analogue reverb (plate, spring, echo chamber, natural)
- Type of digital reverb (convolution, algorithmic)
- Decay time
- Dry/Wet ratio
- Room size
- Pre-delay
What is the production impact of chorus?
- Adds stereo width
- Creates a thicker texture
- Adds movement using an LFO
What are the parameters of chorus?
- Delay time (very small, <30ms)
- Rate
- Voices
- Dry/wet ratio
What is the production impact of distortion?
- Adds harmonics to a signal, making it warmer
- limits signal
- Sometimes reduces dynamic range
What are the parameters of distortion?
- Type of distortion (Overdrive, fuzz, tape saturation, tube/valve amplification, digital clipping)
- Drive / input gain
What is the production impact of using DAWs?
- Non-destructive and Non-linear editing
- More tracks –> More overdubbing / multitracking
- Automation
- Advanced midi editing
What is the production impact of close miking?
- Provides a dry, clean signal for processing
- Can create a more intimate feeling
