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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:54:24PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> fons@kokkinizita.net wrote:

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> >And don't forget that 90% of all music that is still

> >popular today has been produced without any form of

> >automation, and even without the editing facilities

> >that e.g. Ardour provides - just using 16 or 24-track

> >tapes (and in many cases even less). If you can't do

> >a decent fade-out manually you just have to learn and

> >do it. Agreed, it's easier with a real P&G fader than

> >with one you have to move by mouse.

>

> Full ACK and IMO it's not up to the audio engineer to fade, but it's

> the task of the musician to play the instrument dynamically. In most

> cases an audio engineer makes a mix that is kept for a whole song,

> loud and silent passages are done by the artist, not by the

> technician.

That's certainly true for most of the music I love,

but OTOH in practice as an audio engineer you are

supposed to solve problems created by circumstances

out of your control. If a singer wants to redo one

phrase of song and it ends up being a few dB louder

than the rest you'll have to accept that - you can't

ask to do it again just because of that. But it's no

big deal. Either you just remember to push the fader

at the right time, or today, using Ardour, you can

just cut out that fragment and move it to a separate

track with its own EQ and level. I find this a lot

easier than using automation.
Ciao,
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FA
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