![]() ![]() TD to the rescue!! I’ve used the TD to tighten up drum recordings as well as a 5 piece horn section that we did at London Bridge. However, the main tracking room is HUGE! This can cause some issues if you are looking for a tight and “dry” sound as you can’t avoid picking up that huge room sound in anything that you record with microphones. It’s an incredible studio with a lot of history. I’ve done a few recordings at the famous London Bridge Studio here in the greater Seattle area. Here are some of the ways I have used this wonderful device: Sure, you say, but what would you use it for? It’s NOT a compressor, expander, or gate, but allows you to make signals punchier, or remove/reduce sustain or room sound, or add more sustain or room sound to your tracks. So, unlike compressors, expanders, and gates, which act on the level of the signal passing through them, the TD’s settings affect the attack and sustain portions of the signal at any volume/dynamic level. ![]() The Transient Designer (TD) allows you to adjust the attack and sustain portions of an audio signal, regardless of the dynamic level. Waves and other companies also make their own similar plugins that are not officially licensed by SPL, and that operate and behave slightly differently, but are doing the same type of thing. We never had these at the big studio I used to work at, and now I wonder how we got along without them! These days I have the Universal Audio UAD plugin version, as well as SPL’s own native plugin version. But, it’s one of those tools that I can’t live without! The SPL Transient Designer is a cool piece of hardware, that has also been ported over to multiple plugin versions, that does something that most other dynamic processors can’t do. Here is something that not too many people talk about any more, and thus many beginners might not know about. Finally, he creatively processes a reverb return to create a cool rhythmic effect.The “Secret Weapon” behind many great recording and mixes! ![]() First, he fixes a hi-hat in a loop, then processes a kick, snare, bass, and room mics using Transient Designer Plus. That leads into an exploration of one of the new features of Transient Designer Plus, its Soft Clip Limiter.īill covers both the internal and external side chains in separate videos, showing you how you can use them to key off key rhythmic sources such as a kick or snare, and how to impart the transient envelope of one track to another track.īill then demonstrates all of this with demo videos. Next, Bill demonstrates the two main controls of the plug-in, the Attack and Sustain knobs. In this in-depth tutorial series, studio guru Bill Edstrom teaches you how to use and abuse this latest version of SPL’s secret weapon for controlling transients, Transient Designer Plus!īill begins with an overview of what Transient Designer Plus can offer you, which segues into a walkthrough of the plug-in’s UI. ![]()
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