EQ Magazine - March 2009 - (Page 54) GEAR HEAD metering. There are reduction meters for the Compressor, De-Esser, and Gate, as well as good input/output meters. And, VoiceStrip is available in both mono and stereo configurations, so you can use it to process those massed background vocals you bused down to two tracks. The Soft Sat saturation option is welcome too, as it can add some grit and funk to potentially clinical sounds. Limitations: The EQ bands not only have no resonance controls, the high end frequency is fixed. This seems like a situation where you’re expected to get the sound you want with the mic and mic placement (which you should anyway!), and the EQ serves mainly as a way to “touch up” the sound. Bottom line: PowerCore’s bundling of multiple desirable plug-ins has been a strong point of theirs, as you get more than just the hardware when you take the box home. As expected, the optional-at-extra-cost ones are where you’ll find the more complex plugs, but VoiceStrip need make no apologies—it’s eminently useful, and the price is right. Ex. 2. Sonar’s V-Vocal, which is based on Roland’s VariPhrase technology and is bundled with Sonar Producer Edition, can edit pitch, formant, dynamics, and timing. While all these types of programs have many similarities, they also have differences. For example, Waves Tune (Example 5) handles vibrato extremely elegantly: It highlights vibrato in pink, which you can increase or decrease (or add an attack). And you can substitute synth vibrato instead, with a choice of waveforms as well as depth, predelay, attack, and rate. Like MIDI sequencers, Tune also has a “glue” tool for connecting separate notes, and a scissors tool for splitting notes into multiple notes. HARMONIES BY HAND You say you don’t have a harmony synthesizer? During mixdown, everyone decided the lead vocal could use a harmony line, but the singer is on tour in Ulan Bator? You can sing harmonies, but you want them to have a bit of a different timbral quality? All is not lost, if your DAW has decent pitch-stretching algorithms. However, it’s crucial that you can 54 EQ MARCH 2009 www.eqmag.com http://www.eqmag.com http://www.eqmag.com http://www.eqmag.com
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