JS: General Dynamics plugin in REAPER

[Music] hi i'm kenny joya welcome to another one of my tutorials in this video i'm going to show you the js plug-in general dynamics compressor and reaper [Music] now the general dynamics compressor is one of the most powerful dynamics processors we could use in our projects we could literally customize its behavior exactly how we need my favorite thing about it is we can see exactly what we're doing following the input to the output using a visual graph so let's take a look i have a drum project set up here with a kick a snare a pair of overheads and a pair of room mics let's see what it sounds like [Music] so let's start with the snare let's solve it let's go to track effects and we'll type in the filter general and here's the general dynamics plug-in right here double click it and it looks like this let's make it bigger down here by dragging it bigger or smaller like this let's put it right here now in this graph we can see how the compressor works down over here is the input over here is the output and we can control the difference in here in the graph so right now it's linear so the input is going to equal the output if we want to change that we can change our graph let's start here and if we drag it from here to here that's four boxes instead of eight so the gain is cut in half or two to one ratio on the compressor let's hear it but it's only compressing up here so our threshold starts down here which we can adjust with the detector gain right here so what's below is now compressing and what's above is by two to one ratio [Music] and if we want to change it to four to one just make this line steeper and only go up two boxes instead of eight and a four to one ratio and we can smooth out any of the lines we draw by holding the shift key and dragging over that spot [Music] that's four to one we can adjust the input attack and release right here if we make the attack slower the gain reduction is going to react slower and the release decides how quickly the compressor will stop compressing once the signal goes below the threshold [Music] notice how slow it is now [Music] if we want to create a brick wall limiter we can just drag from here straight over in a straight line so the volume can't go above this point [Music] and we can erase what we draw by holding down alt on the pc option on the mac and just dragging over we can also freehand draw with a pencil tool controlling the pc command on the mac and just draw any lines we want and we can smooth it out with the shift key and create any custom type of compression [Music] we could also create a noise gate with this plugin let's clear this and go down here and drag from here over and everything over here is going to be turned off or gated and we're only going to hear what's up here because it's gated [Music] if we don't want the gate to close completely we could use an expander instead we could draw from here to about here and now this level is going to be lower than this level creating an expander [Music] so anything over here is going to be quieter than anything over here [Music] we can make it even lower like this [Music] and smooth it out with a shift key [Music] and that creates an expander gate and we can also compress and expand at the same time we could draw from here over to here so everything up here is going to compress and everything down here is going to expand [Music] or we could gate it instead smooth it out [Music] so everything down here is gated and everything up here is compressed [Music] so it's very flexible let's start over by clearing this let's put it back to two to one [Music] now let's try it on the kick let's close this choose the plugin let's make it bigger and start off with two to one compression and let's sew it let's try four to one before and after now let's try it on the room mics let's solo them choose the plugin here let's make it bigger and let's hear it [Music] let's try about four to one compression let's try it really fast release [Music] or slower [Music] we could also multiply the effect by adding feedback which sends the output back to the input repeating it we could also use the aux input and create a side chain let's send the kick and the snare to the compressor and now it's being triggered by the kick and snare not the room mics [Music] [Music] [Music] let's hear it with the rest of the drums [Music] pretty dramatic [Music] let's hear it before [Music] and after [Music] as you can tell it's a very versatile compressor gate or expander and although we just used it on drums it works equally well on any source we use it on so that's pretty much it that's the js plug-in general dynamics compressor and reaper i hope you learned something hope you can use it and i'll see you next time thanks [Music] bingo boys let's go [Music] ah

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Length: 11min 10sec (670 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 21 2021