waveform rectifiers are weird
- September 20th, 2013
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Playing with a waveform rectifier. It’s external hardware, so to bounce stuff through it, I have to route out through analogue and back in, old-school. That’s fine, but kind of slow.
The odd part is, to me, the difference is substantial – at least, when the drums are thrown at it, not so much with the zouk and vox – but Anna doesn’t hear much of a difference. I wonder which is more typical?
Trying to throw an entire drum mix through it and using that in place of the separates Does Not Work, though. If I want to use this even as an incremental change tool, I should use it live (as recommended by maker, actually) or bounce per-instrument. That’s also suggested as reasonable in the manual.
Either way, it’s not showing up that hugely in the mix, even to me, and a lot of what this is doing is reminding me how much better the headphone amp in my workstation is than the headphone amp in my Macbook. By which I mean damn.
But at least I get to say “I have a waveform rectifier.” That’s cool.
Is that the thing that’s essentially a box of zener diodes you select with a rotary switch? I’ve heard the name somewhere, but really can’t place it.
No, that’s different. I know what you mean, but this is a digital signal processor that does a small assortment of things, including small amounts of phase shift. It’s an interesting device, anyway, even if last night’s experiments didn’t work out.