On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 03:52, Steve Harris wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 11:09:10PM -0800, Russell Hanaghan wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 22:56, Russell Hanaghan wrote: > > > I could not get any noticeable function trying the sidechain inputs of > > > these (I forget if it was specifically SC2 or 3 or 4 but could see the > > > inputs in Jack-Rack) > > > > > > I ran jack from Qjackctl, Ardour and jack-rack. Inserted SC3 into > > > jack-rack. All routing was done from Qjackctl "Connect" interface. Tried > > > every way to Sunday and could not get any effect except "makeup gain". > > > Then I tried just patching SC2 then SC3, etc as inserts direct into an > > > audio channel in Ardour for straight compression. Could not get them to > > > do any standard compressing either. > > > > > > Any thoughts or illumination on these compressors would be great. I > > > particularly want to run a "de essing" of sorts on a single mike imput. > > > Is it possible with these plugs?? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > No takers?? > > Sorry, must have missed it first time tound. They do work (SC4 is used in > JAMin), try setting low attach and decay times, winding the threshold right > down the ratio right up and the knee to the middle and the peak/rms to > peak. > > If your audio is comming in at quite a low level you may not hear anything > - this is a thinko on my part, analogue compressors expect signals > 0dB, > but in digital systems this is unusual, so the range of the threshold is a > bit narrow. A future release will have a lower min range. > > - Steve Thnx Steve.. What about the side chain inputs...Any info on how to use them as I described? Like as de essing with pushed freqs from a seperate eq? R~