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Time SplittingImagine if you will a great recorded part of a vocal that explodes in volume on a couple of notes. That alignment canвЂ™t be accurately re-constructed with the analysis results because the spectrum resolution is reduced to 1/12th octave and the peaking and troughing of the deviate is finer scale than that. How the Air then affects spectrum then depends upon whether the peaks and troughs of the Air response line up with the peaks in the spectrum. Without the taper it would sound too bright. It is realized as a log normal random deviate applied to a unity gain all pass response with the variance of the deviate tapering at higher frequencies to add warmth. The effect the new Air has on the spectrum is actually rather small when used modestly. The ways you use it will is still the same but it will sound better and have a greater range of possibilities, one of which is stereoвЂ™ising mono sources. To get back to Left and right we use the following equations: Left = (Mid + Side) / 2 Right = (Mid вЂ“ Side) / 2 The New Air ToolHar-Bal Air as it is now has been replaced with a more powerful and natural sounding Haas zone ambiance process. Now the basic Har-Bal 3 filter block has left and right channels being filtered by left and right filters, then being encoded into Mid and Side using the above scheme with Mid and Side filters applied to those components and then being decoded back into Left and Right. So the level of the Side component relative the Mid component gives an indication of the stereo spread of your mix. Mid / Side DecodingOur Mid / Side decoding is defined by the following equations: Mid = Left + Right Side = Left вЂ“ Right You can see that with a mono source Side = 0 as Left = Right.

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Download a tutorial (PDF) on using the Dynamic Node Tool here. These two factors are responsible for the clean sound of Har-BalвЂ™s dynamics processing. This also ensures that very little distortion is introduced by dynamics processing. Figure 11: A comparison of envelope detection in traditional and Har-Bal dynamics processingBy using a slow moving envelope for dynamics processing we ensure that the short term transient material remains largely unaltered and we simply change the relativity between loud and soft passages of a track. This point is clearly illustrated in Figure 11, which shows the difference between envelope detection used traditionally and in Har-Bal. The net result is that the dynamics processing in Har-Bal works more like the volume riding technique of recording engineers of days gone past where they would adjust down the level while the music is being recorded because they knew when the loud parts were coming. Because Har-Bal knows the entire history of the track we donвЂ™t need fast attack because we know when to pull the level down.

We have a slow release time because fast gain change will lead to a lot of distortion. In traditional compression we principally have fast attack and slow release because a compressor cannot predict the future so it doesnвЂ™t know when to pull down the level and if it does it slowly a very big transient will push through before it has a chance to bring it down. However it doesnвЂ™t sound awful, and here is the reason why. Now youвЂ™ll probably think that makes no sense and will sound awful. By that I mean with a normal compressor you would typically have a fast attack time and slow release which means that the gain quickly drops at the start of a transient and slowly rises at the tail after the transient. As such the gain change that tracks the music is in sync and symmetrical about the content. The envelope it already has from the analysis. Unlike conventional dynamics processing, it doesnвЂ™t use attack вЂ“ decay envelope extraction. You create a transfer function to map the input average level to a new output average level and Har-Bal uses it to figure out what gain to apply dynamically prior to the limiter at any point in time. New features!! Dynamics ProcessingThe dynamics processing in Har-Bal is based entirely on the average level envelope that you see in the time-line. ItвЂ™s an interactive process of listening and seeing and experimenting with changes. We donвЂ™t suggest you simply trust what you see and go by that. More the case that when you are struggling to hear what is wrong (but you know something is wrong) it can give visual insight.

It does not mean give way to your eyes if your ears tell you everything you need. IntuitMatch and IntuitQ вЂ“ вЂњEyes to the earsвЂќ is a more realistic slogan that we like. Loudness Compensation вЂ“ Har-Bal leaves the initial volume level unchanged even after performing spectral correction (EQ changes) thanks to its вЂњloudness compensationвЂќ algorithm.

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Har-Bal updated to version 3.7 Har-Bal 3.7 Available for Mac and PC Match Loudness вЂ“ Will match your track to the perceived loudness of any commercial recording you input into Har-Bal.