… And a final futzy part. Same instrumental settings, but relies more on the synth than the two previous clips.

Sometimes all you want is a little futz. This is lo-fi hard banging drums run through a crappy sounding reverb, a synth and some futz. Two variations.

This is called Organ orgy because it has

• Organs in it (the instrument silly)
• And several of them!

There are also a couple of reversed notes.

… And a third variation.

This is a tension thing. Classical setting with violins, clarinets and so forth.

Since I was a little off on the posts last week I’ve done two clips. The second has timpanis and no violins.

Acon Acoustica (previous post) have been updated to 4.1. Among the new features that I can think of that’s specifically of interest for podcasters we find a multi-band compressor (only in Acoustica Premium), enhanced de-crackle feature (also only in Premium), and batch processing wizard for processing multiple files at once.

Check out Acon’s website for details.

Speaking of updates, M-Audio have updated their Session software to 1.6.3. Go to M-Audio for details.

Side-chaining is when you use the dynamic levels of one source to control the compression of your signal. For podcasting ducking might be the typical use for side-chaining. But you can also use it with a compressor and an EQ to create a de-esser, or with a gate and create the opposite effect of ducking, i.e., letting sound through when the signal is sounding.