Is there a way?
by Alan Smith
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Jun 3, 2008 at 6:19:31 pm
When finishing a show using Pro Tools, we were able to use sends and busses along with an effect to control the volume of our music beds. We had the effect set so that whenever the our VO track or nat sound tracks reached a certain dB, the music track would automatically drop to a pre determined level. This allowed us to set the music track volume to a desired dB and not have to key framing the volume as we went through the mix. This was a very efficient way to work. Is there a way to accomplish the same results in Soundtrack?
Re: Is there a way? (sidechain compression) by Charles Stuart on Jun 14, 2008 at 12:28:23 pm
Soundtrack Pro doesn't have any sidechain actuated filters, unfortunately.
From memory (and it's been a wee while since we abandoned protools) it's not one of the standard protools effects either.
It's most likely that the filter in question was the Waves C1 compressor - which will also work in SoundtrackPro. The cheapest bundle I found was £300 (UK pounds)
Somewhat more subtle than ducking the volume is to set it so that the voice track triggers an EQ in the M&E track, reducing the frequencies in the area of the human voice as soon as someone speaks. (Cookie Cutting)
Or you can do what most of us probably do and just ride the fader and record the automation.
