Waves bass rider

[Lasse Lammert]

I never automated bass note by note...never felt the need to.

damn, many bass players play like 500-1000 notes per song....I would never even start doing that ...and never did (well, I would if I'd be working on an 80.000€ budget)

 

[Superdatasatan]

I know shipley does it, and andy some how does do it manually on the console. All you need is an assistant who has 2-3 hours and an RMS meter and you can do it manually.

Just talked to a friend who beta'd this plugin, and he said that it actually uses some crazy algorithm that goes after more perceived volume then actual volume...which I think is awesome.

Tried it out briefly yesterday and loved it. This literally saves me a day of work or more on every album I work on.

Cool! Did you prefer using it before or after compression?

 

[MetalSound]

I never automated bass note by note...never felt the need to.

damn, many bass players play like 500-1000 notes per song....I would never even start doing that ...and never did (well, I would if I'd be working on an 80.000€ budget)

same here. just throw a c4 on it when neccessary and i´m done.

 

[BLUElightCory]

I never automated bass note by note...never felt the need to.

damn, many bass players play like 500-1000 notes per song....I would never even start doing that ...and never did (well, I would if I'd be working on an 80.000€ budget)

I think it's more along the lines of using general compression to even out the overall level and then saying "okay, when he plays an F# the level should be X, when he plays an E the level should be Y" and so forth - Just because depending on the rest of the music and the key of the song, different bass notes will have different apparent loudness, even if they're evened out with a compressor beforehand. I think we've all dealt with that. I don't think they're getting down to the 1/4, 1/8 or 1/16 note level or anything like that unless the part calls for it.

 

[Ermz]

Cool! Did you prefer using it before or after compression?

Definitely before. It does NOT work well after compression. It works GREAT before compression though.

Here's a quick before and after... no audio necessary

 

[Charles J]

^^^^^ HOW DO AWESOMENESS?! haha, Waves always fucking rocks!

 

[The-Zeronaut]

Do they (bass and vocal rider) work in Reaper?

 

[Empathy]

Here's a quick before and after... no audio necessary

Nice. Very, very nice. $99 to spend this week I think.

 

[Ermz]

I'm just upset it doesn't work with the bass on a record I'm finishing right now. Already printed 2 compressors on it, and it appears to be too much envelope mangling for the plug-in to handle.

Ah well - next record!

 

[Wisheraser]

Did you leave the Range sliders wide open to achieve that or limit them somewhat?