Music and sounds : Clean your sounds before placing them online
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Emmanuel Deruty

Raising the Treble

As you may have noticed while testing your first sounds, the trebles are the first sounds to suffer from a compression process under RealProducer.

The solution for revitalising the treble is to use a filter. In this way, they will keep their crispness after compression. Compare these two excerpts:

The music before treating the treble and the same piece after treatment

To boost the treble tones, we will pass the sequence through a new filter:

  1. Select Process > EQ > graphics.

  2. The Graphic EQ opens

  3. Make the following settings on the various potentiometers of the dialog box:



  4. Figure 4: The settings for boosting the treble tones

During this step, make sure that the Accuracy parameter, located at the bottom of the window, is set on High. The calculation will take longer, but the result will be more pleasant.

That's it! After all these settings, your music will be able to withstand the RealProducer treatment better. The result will be more pleasant for your visitors and for you. Let's make a final test.

The sound compressed without treatment and the sound compressed after treatment

Which one do you like better?

Still louder? Up to now, we have been using the basic treatments provided by SoundForge. If you have DirectX type plug-ins, don't hesitate to try them out: they are often much better!




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