6/26/2023 0 Comments Spl transient designer freeIt’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. The “Secret Weapon” behind many great recording and mixes!
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