I think it gives better results than Selig's Leveller but that might put me in a minority on this forum It probably does about 90 of the work and then I manually tweak the rest, usually the bit with the biggest volume variations (mostly due to less than ideal vocal technique). Now a -18 dB FS rms signal will only show -4 on the VU meter so you will start turning things up (eg your virtual instrument main output level) to get the VU to reach 0 dB VU again. Waves Vocal Rider is something I use in almost every project. If you wanted to run your rms values hotter everywhere in your system you might set the Waves VU now to say 14. It means setting your rms values around 0 dB VU on the VU meter is running your system down at -18. The 18 setting in the Waves VU is a good place to start. The VU meter relates to the rms reading, not peak in the channel meters. ie when the rms part of the S1 meter is around -18, the VU meter will be up around 0 dB VU. The rms component in the channel meter in Studio One will match the VU meter. meaning a -18 dBFS level will show a 0 dB VU reading on the VU meter. I bought a presonus fader port to write volume automation and it was a great investment.
Melda AutoVolume is something I got a lot of use out of. Trileveler is for dialogue and VOLA for normal vocal riding.
#Using vocal rider plugin in presonus free#
Look above the left meter in the Headroom setting. both are free plugins by Sonic Anomaly (no longer maintained though). You now need to decide what rms calibration level you are going to work at and set the Waves VU calibration level accordingly. The little white lines below is the rms value.
The very top of the bar meter is the peak value. Right click on the Studio One channel meter of your virtual instrument and set it to Peak/RMS. A slow moving synth pad for example might work well with this type of approach. Use your ears and try turning them off and on and comparing. This was just a situation where automatic gain adjustments just did not work well at all.īut there are also situations where it works too.
#Using vocal rider plugin in presonus manual#
Once I removed it and did some manual editing and put a compressor over the vocals doing light duties, the vocal sound ended up way better in the end. On a recent track I was mixing I had it on the lead vocal and had all sorts of issues trying to get the vocal sounding right. I have got the Waves vocal rider plugin and often it does a great job and levels things out real nice. If you gain stage things correctly and also cut the audio up into smaller sections and tweak the levels here and there manually, often you end up with a much nicer result that is more natural sounding. It could be making decisions that might not be great in the end too. One would really need to listen to how they are doing it. I would personally be slightly careful about any plugin making automatic gain adjustments.