moses
hardliner
I found a really cool trick a few days ago and thought you might be interested...
...it's nothing really new, but I was surprised how useful it is. I was reading about noise-gates and found this (Wikipedia):
Multi-latch gating
The invention of a technique, called multi-latch gating by Jay Hodgson, common in classical music recordings for years, is often credited to producer Tony Visconti, whose use on David Bowie's "Heroes" may have been the first in rock. Visconti recorded Bowie's vocals in a large space using three microphones placed 9 inches (23 cm), 20 feet (6.1 m), and 50 feet (15.2 m) away, respectively. A different gate was applied to each microphone so that the the farther microphone was triggered only when Bowie reached the appropriate volume, and each microphone was muted as the next one was triggered. "Bowie's performance thus grows in intensity precisely as ever more ambience infuses his delivery until, by the final verse, he has to shout just to be heard....The more Bowie shouts to be heard, in fact, the further back in the mix Visconti's multi-latch system pushes his vocal tracks [dry audio being perceived as front and ambience pushing audio back in the mix], creating a stark metaphor for the situation of Bowie's doomed lovers shouting their love for one another over the Berlin wall".
The original idea of multi-latch gating looks like this:
I think you get the point.. ..a skilled engineer will most probably find ways to emulate the mic with clever use of compression, EQ and reverb. I just started to play around with this idea, results are fantastic and the creative possibilities endless!
...it's nothing really new, but I was surprised how useful it is. I was reading about noise-gates and found this (Wikipedia):
Multi-latch gating
The invention of a technique, called multi-latch gating by Jay Hodgson, common in classical music recordings for years, is often credited to producer Tony Visconti, whose use on David Bowie's "Heroes" may have been the first in rock. Visconti recorded Bowie's vocals in a large space using three microphones placed 9 inches (23 cm), 20 feet (6.1 m), and 50 feet (15.2 m) away, respectively. A different gate was applied to each microphone so that the the farther microphone was triggered only when Bowie reached the appropriate volume, and each microphone was muted as the next one was triggered. "Bowie's performance thus grows in intensity precisely as ever more ambience infuses his delivery until, by the final verse, he has to shout just to be heard....The more Bowie shouts to be heard, in fact, the further back in the mix Visconti's multi-latch system pushes his vocal tracks [dry audio being perceived as front and ambience pushing audio back in the mix], creating a stark metaphor for the situation of Bowie's doomed lovers shouting their love for one another over the Berlin wall".
The original idea of multi-latch gating looks like this:
Code:
[ mic1 (close) ]----[ Noise Gate ]------\
[ mic2 (~20 feet) ]----[ Noise Gate ]-------------
[ mic2 (~50 feet) ]----[ Noise Gate ]------/
Note: Noise gate threshold should increase with distance
I think you get the point.. ..a skilled engineer will most probably find ways to emulate the mic with clever use of compression, EQ and reverb. I just started to play around with this idea, results are fantastic and the creative possibilities endless!
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