When Mastering
Hi n-Track Users:
I’ve been working away beta testing the latest builds of v6.
I now have my Studio P-4 Dual Boot machine up-and-running…
It’s gonna take forever to get this machine back to where it once was and how it used to work…
I’m not able to install n-Track v6 onto the the '98SE Operating System…
I have all the '98SE FIXES I can find to download and install with hopes that the Installer will launch and run v6 on that DESK…
The best it can manage is …
at about 80% of the install progress the installer “Hangs”
without completing the install process…
It’s like back in build 2040-2041 days…
Anyway, n-Track installs and works perfectly on the XP Operating System…
At least for the way I have used it up-until-now…
In fact…
n-Track is working so well that I am gonna comment on something I’d like to see added to a future build(s)…
that is, if Flavio could manage to work this modification into v6.0 and later builds…
I am gonna post a print-screen of this issue and then describe WHAT-and-How I’m controlling the " “What I Call” “E.Q. Artifacts” "…
The print-screen…
Looking closely at the peeks and where the Artifacts are on the time line, …
very few-if-any (the peeks and artifacts) line up so they can be ONE-by-ONE edited from the file…
In the past and this goes back to-and-before the builds of v2 these Peeks-or-Spikes were described as “ROGUE” Peeks…
They didn’t seen to be a product of anything that could be accounted for…
but they caused average level reduction in the “End Product”.
To exaggerate this time line for visual presentation I did a mixdown/render to show the peeks and artifacts together on this time line.
I did maybe 4-5 mixdown/renders to come up with this time line image…
I don’t use the audio card’s settings to render .wav files…
In the mixdown settings I bypass that operation…
At some point in time most of us has discovered that very careful adjustment of E.Q. has the best chance of fixing these peeks and artifacts in the end product…
AND…
attempting to adjust the overall level of the rendered mix is too severe in it’s FIX…
When setting the E.Q.
I’ve found that finding the correct frequency to attenuate is easy…
It’s setting it level that requires a steady hand to get it “Just Right”…
There-fore…
it’s the resolution of setting the levels that needs to be expanded…
Sometimes the change of as little as .5 db at the right frequency is all that needed…
I would like to see the E.Q. knobs on the channel and main strips modified so that a “RIGHT-CLICK” would open a dialogue box so that the adjust of the E.Q. levels could be entered into the dialogue box by a number entry from the keyboard could be entered…
The same as adjusting the PAN-and-LEVEL controls are done now…
In my opinion, this would be a great modification/addition to how n-Track works…
Bill…
N Track EQ - you should be aware of this Bill - but some may not be -
for precise editing of EQ, double click on either of the three dials or the icon to the right of the dials on the track fader -
this will open up the EQ panel there are 3 dots on the green line the first dot is low frequency, then mid frequency and then high frewquency - moving the dots shows what is happening ie how muck eq is being added and how that effects the frequency range -
at the top of the EQ panel RIGHT CLICKING on the WRENCH icon will open one set of options LEFT CLICKING will open another set of options, look in FREQUENCY SPECTRUM for another set of options -
double clicking a dot on the green line will reset that frequency band -
there is a HIDDEN icon to the right of the WRENCH which will add a new section to the EQ panel here you can set up the bandwith of the frequency (the with of the frequency adjustment) - other controls are availavle but are not as easy to use as moving the dots with the mouse -
in the studio i run everything FLAT and uee hardware to add EQ - if i am at home or otherwise forced to work IN THE BOX i use HARBAL (which i believe you have) as HARBAL is one of the best VISUAL EQ packages available i see no point of wasting time messing with Ns EQ when the other option is far superiour -
now it takes a long time to understand hoe altering one frequency affects others, in fact altering the frequency anywhere in a track will have an adverse effect somewhere else -
when EQiing you have two choices
1… to EQ each track (and hope it comes together in the final mix) -
2… add EQ to the final mixed down track (POST PRODUCTION)-
each has it prros and cons -
i think a lot of people will attempt to add EQ to each track in the timeline - this can be totally time consuming and innefective, as it is often the fact that you cannot get it right -
using POST PRODUCTION techniques can speed up EQing and is far less stressful - if you have so far only EQed on a track by track basis then try doing it on a FLAT mixed down track -
M.R.
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there is a HIDDEN icon to the right of the WRENCH which will add a new section to the EQ panel here you can set up the bandwith of the frequency (the with of the frequency adjustment) - other controls are availavle but are not as easy to use as moving the dots with the mouse
Could you show a picture of where this is?
Oooop's - never mind - you mean the square button,
which can be toggled on and off.
Thanks M.R. mucho for the EQ info
i am still using old fashioned CRT monitors and single core cpus, so to maximise CPU use i have to use low efficiency video cards, this one is 32meg ram so definition is down on say a 250meg ram one - thats why its invisible on my system and ahows up om yours -
M.R.
I think you are talking about the icon to the Left of the wrench - is that it?
My problem is the dark color and small print of the numbers here.
I can see the frequency, it nice and bright, but I cannot see the DB gain - that is too dark to see. Matter of fact _ i think I just found a bug. When I typed in a number the green line disappeared.
yes - it not actually an icon (on my screen) there is a space to the left of the wrench click in the space -
i noticed that if you take a dot right to the top of the panel the greenline shoots up there and then N freezes - oh happy days -
M.R.