Wavelab beat its longtime rival Sound Forge with 19% of the votes. Most probably because its versions for Mac and PC are pretty homogeneous in terms of functions, but also because its design was revamped recently. They also have features spectographic edition without the need of an external application.
Sound Forge racked up 18% of the votes, lost the top part probably due to Sony’s lack of making any further developments. Adobe’s s Audition is a safe bet when it comes to multitrack editing being the first tool to incorporate spectographic edition.
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Recording Software
How To use EQ to identify and eliminate problem frequencies
We all come to the point where we come across a sound or sounds that makes it difficult to blend the sound with the rest of your mix. It could be a bass part, a guitar part that sounds like the proverbial wasp-in-a-jam-jar or a synth pad that cuts through the mix too much. EQ-ing can help you eliminate these problems.
The EQ that comes with your DAW is often ideal for this sort of EQ-ing, as it will tend to be very accurate, having not been designed to emulate the vagaries and nuances of a fancy analogue EQ circuit. Open your EQ’s control panel and choose which band of the EQ to use based on where the problematic component of the sound is.
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Adobe Audition CC: Track Vs. Clip Effects
Adobe Audition CC is a multitrack wave editor designed to fit seamlessly into the Creative Cloud family of apps. It is to provide you with faster and easier tools to edit audio from apps such as Premiere or After Effects.
There are two ways to use effects, Track and Clip. Track effects are like regular DAW like Cubase or Logic, and process everything on a track in realtime, remaining ‘live’ until rendered down. Clip effects has allows you to glue the effect into just one clip which allows other clips and material on the same track completely unaffected.
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The 5 Best Dynamic EQ Plugins
Dynamic EQs are great to use for precision mixing. A dynamic EQ takes the best of both worlds and combines as they react to internal or external sources. Internal mode listens to the sound source itself while external mode listens to a different sound source and makes cuts or boosts the audio.
Neutron 2 is pretty much the best of the best out there. It has incredible precision and many years of world-class algorithms developed by iZotope behind it. Surfer EQ, different from Neutron 2, instead of responding to gain values, responds to pitch.
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How To Layer Guitars For A Huge Sound
There’s a lot of musical techniques that needs to happen in order for you to have a great guitar sound. You need to ensure that all parts work together and should sound their best.
When it comes to pop, layering guitars isn’t necessarily about creating more noise or volume like it might be in rock or metal, but rather creating a richer soundstage. These can be easily achieved with Modern DAWS. It’s technique is available to almost anyone regardless of what software you are using.
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