How to Use an Expander for Punchy Drums and Mastering
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- Learn how to use an expander plugin to add punch, attack and power to your drums and learn how to use an expander when mastering your tracks.
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You explain so well the system of the compressor! Thank you man! This track is good by the way!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video and the track
Actually you want a fast attack time to expand the transient, slow attack time will kill the transient.
Great explanation of expansion vs compression! That's what I was looking for. Look forward to more videos.
Great! let me know if you have any suggestions for new videos.
awesome tip!
Excellent!
What is the song? What artist?
This is incorrect... Expanders don't add gain to the peaks, they reduce gain when the signal falls below a threshold which increases the dynamic range. Using. It. Like this will make the rest of the track pump... As you can hear
An expander makes quiet things quieter and loud things louder, therefore increasing the dynamic range. So by definition the peaks are emphasized, depending on the settings you use of course. The pumping caused by this is a separate issue and can be desirable or undesirable based on personal preference.
Also you're talking about downward expansion, this is upward expansion. Unless I'm missing something, please let me know I could be wrong.
@@beattweaks my bad didn't realise you was using upwards expansion
using an expander on a mixdown is a lost cause mate - there is now way, one way or the other that you will add dynamics without changing something else - you have to send that back - full stop. If it was a single track (you got sent the single tracks and you had the chance to work with them then fine.. you could 'expand the drum bus' to add dynamics but to try to use an expander on a full mix is a lost cause mate - ya just don't - you'll spoil the mix - best you can do is, imho - take whatever peaks are left and add a touch of comp and limit it to get the level up to the 'standard' - but I wouldn't bother myself...
@@paulchapman2184 I mean yeah you're probably right it's not the best approach for a full mix down. Any processing you do on a full mix will probably have some unwanted effect but the point of this video was more about creativity and exploring new avenues of processing and less about telling people to use this technique. Also sometimes you don't have the option to send a mixdown back, I've had that happen quite a few times.