AR compressor and noise it adds

owensands · 2014-10-20T22:01:34.000Z

I find that even when the dry wet is at 0% the main outs can be noisy. When I send drums out individual outs them seem much quieter. Anyone else feel this way? Is the compressor still giving this high noise floor? Or is it maybe the distortion effect adding this? I usually always use distortion set to about 10 to 13. Need to test this more…

virtual_flannel · 2014-10-20T22:39:05.000Z

""owensands"":

I find that even when the dry wet is at 0% the main outs can be noisy. When I send drums out individual outs them seem much quieter. Anyone else feel this way? Is the compressor still giving this high noise floor? Or is it maybe the distortion effect adding this? I usually always use distortion set to about 10 to 13. Need to test this more…

I think it’s the Distortion causing this in your case. I keep my compressor jacked and always have a little bit of noise coming through my speakers. I’m cool with it. That’s what a compressor does.

stutech · 2014-10-21T09:16:31.000Z

Are we talking about noise floor levels that register only on headphone listening or levels that are actually audible over speakers? My AR’s noise floor is lower than my mixer’s (as long as no settings induce noise floor increase, like drive or comp settings)

h4ndcrafted · 2014-10-21T12:39:52.000Z

Both of those effects will enhance the noise floor for sure.

Having worked mainly ITB, it is weird having to work with noise again, but I don’t mind it, when using analogue I like a bit of roughness around the edges.

Even over headphone it sinks away pretty fast once you have stuff running. I’m not too hung up about it personally, once I start recording it, on quiter patterns I’m hoping it is nothing a simple gate won’t deal with.

owensands · 2014-10-21T13:44:51.000Z

yeah I agree. I don’t mind it much as I make dirty techno anyway. Just trying to understand the source if I want something really clean when tracking it in the studio.

SkeenaCloud · 2014-10-21T17:46:56.000Z

I’ve had a few moments where I ask, Where the eff is that noise coming from… I find it’s usually one of a few things: Bit Rate Reduction too high on a sample, Overdrive too high on an AMP, Compressor working too hard. I dial those back just a bit and it sounds clean again

owensands · 2014-10-21T18:12:32.000Z

oooo actually you know what? There is something I forgot about. If you watch one of cukoos videos. If you have the amp decay all the way open to its max it can give extra noise. He dialed all them back just a hair on all voices and the hiss went away. I keep forgetting about this

h4ndcrafted · 2014-10-25T12:36:18.000Z

I can kill noise with the ‘sym’ not sure what that does yet? Is it some sort of env for the dist?

Either way that can kill noisy tails.

You can get some horrible noise on longer decay bass sound if you don’t gain stage well, not super user friendly in this regard.