October 2017
Beginner to intermediate
570 pages
18h 47m
English
We are all familiar with duckers from their common broadcast application—when the DJ speaks, the music is turned down. Most hardware gates provide a switch that turns the gate into a ducker. Even the small dynamics sections on large-format consoles sometimes offer such a feature. For no apparent reason, duckers are hard to find in the software domain. At the time of writing, the SV-719 in Figure 21.1 is one of the very few plugins that offers ducker functionality. However, ducking as an application is a common part of mixing that is arguably slightly underused.
Figure 21.1 The Sonalksis SV-719. This gate/expander plugin also offers ...
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