SETTING UP FUZZMEASURE PATCH
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Part of my reason for taking on this project is to exercise my skill at various specific signal-analysis tasks, so I'm going about it in what might be a somewhat idiosyncratic way. Here's the approach I'm taking, and I'd be very interested to know your thoughts on it. This will give you not only the frequency response at different levels but also the THD at different levels.Įxcellent question, selig.

SETTING UP FUZZMEASURE SERIES

If I was doing this, I'd use FuzzMeasure and run a series of test sweeps at (at least) 6 dB intervals across the useful dynamic range. Selig wrote:I'm curious how you are going to 'sample' the consoles? If you're interested in the 'color', you'll need a test that covers the dynamic range of the original. Thanks for letting me know about that! I'll PM you with the test track to run through it if I decide it's something I want to go ahead with. Gorgon: That Styx DJ mixer is interesting-not quite what I've had in mind for this project, but might still be of interest to me. Lov2sing: Those are both great boards-do you have access to either of them to run a quick test? If so I'll be happy to try my hand at modeling them.

A huge thanks to everyone who has responded! Everyone is of course welcome to make 'requests', but please be aware that I won't have the resources to fulfill them in most cases.ĭata_Shrine and 8cros: thank you-in a future stage of this project I may have some interest in modeling your 4-tracks, though not just yet. Unfortunately I don't have ready access to much gear, which is why I put out the call in this thread for assistance. Mackie and Soundcraft boards are at the top of my wishlist. I also plan on modeling the EQ sections, but that'll be a secondary concern.Īs far as which consoles-whatever I can get my hands on! Well, almost-I'm not particularly interested in 4-tracks for the moment. As I'm just approaching this for fun and not professionally, I have no intentions of getting too obsessive or perfectionist about it, but I will be elaborately profiling the noise, distortion, and frequency response characteristics of each board and fully expect that sophisticated emulation of those three features will be enough to get me some very satisfying results. that such phenomena don't contribute particularly obviously to the results in most cases and can safely be neglected if the goal is just to land somewhere in the ballpark of a convincing sound. Correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression has been that most well-built, well-designed, not-too-ancient boards, if properly maintained, should experience mild enough crosstalk, circuit parameter drift, etc. Great questions! The sonic properties I'm primarily interested in modeling are noise, distortion, and frequency response, as I believe those three properties far and away dominate whatever noticeable signature any given board will tend to have. Thanks-it's definitely going to be both a lot of fun and a lot of work, yes. Hopefully, you aren't going to get tired of modeling those consoles. Marcuswitt wrote:Good luck with that endeavor! Sounds like fun and a bunch of work ahead of you. Which components (input stages, EQ section, panning/balance section, summing stages) and sonic properties in terms of distinction (crosstalk behavior, THD, noise, etc.) of those mixing consoles you'll be trying to emulate? And which console are you considering to emulate in particular (Mackie, Soundcraft/Spirit, Allen&Heath, Yamaha, Alesis, Roland, etc.)? Good luck with that endeavor! Sounds like fun and a bunch of work ahead of you.

Reply in this thread or PM me if in possession of a suitable mixer and willing to spend a couple of minutes to run the test for me. I'm sure at least a few of you have 80s and 90s era mixers lying around-here's your chance to put them to use for the good of the Reason community and get yourself a Reason-based emulation of them in the process. If anyone here has access to an older (say pre-2000) hardware mixer, you can easily provide some sorely needed assistance! All you'll need to do is run my brief test track through the mixer and record and post the output, which should only take you a couple of minutes.

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Whenever this project bears fruit, I'll post the patch files in this thread for each board I model. Househoppin09 wrote:I'm going to be embarking on a project soon in which I'll be modeling a variety of classic small-to-medium-sized mixing boards in Reason.

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