Sound Design • Re: Is there a plugin that suppresses the frequency below a threshold?

No, it's not what you said. You said one is volume control, the other is frequency control.

You're being disingenuous, Ive already made it clear to you that I was indicating the OP was looking for volume control of individual frequency ranges, differentiable from volume control of the entire signal, which are not the same thing.

Dynamics processors apply volume control over the signal; all frequencies. That's not what is wanted here.

The term dynamic has nothing to do with whether something is being applied onto everything or only specific parts.

That was 'dynamics' not 'dynamic'. Do you need the generic term 'dynamics' explained to you?

Dynamic EQ's work on very specific frequencies, not on the entire signal. Dynamic only means that something is responding dynamically to input.

I used a noun, not an adjective.

I'm not ignoring it, I said two posts ago that I don't believe that it is what the OP asked for.

And yet it is.

I don't see different bands in the sketch

Because its not bands, that was a simplification because you kept trying to pretend a single-band dynamics processor didnt apply amplitude changes across the entire spectrum of the signal. You were claiming that the threshold excluded frequencies from attenuation.

You can see the frequencies. On the frequency axis.
Do you not know how a graph works?

nor any mention of different settings for different frequency ranges.

That's the threshold. There's a different threshold for each frequency.

Instead, we see only one treshold line for everything.

Yeah, its one line. A line that indicates a threshold level for each frequency, which varies per frequency (because its a slope). Do you not understand lines either?

And the fact that you're throwing around definitions that don't mean what you think they mean, such as the frequency/volume equation or

Whit? You're just making stuff up now. Its not 'the frequency/volume equation' there's no equation in it at all, its a graph of frequency versus volume aka amplitude.

If you'd have used these correct terms from the beginning, we could've saved a lot of time.

Oh, the irony.

While I still don't know whether the OP needs multibands, I said earlier, that today's gate/expander plugins come with tons of features and could do the job as well, you objected that 99,99999% plugins couldn't do it.

And yet they cant do the job.
And what I said was that 99,99999% of gate plugins wouldnt do what the OP needed. Because they cant.

And then you claimed that the threshold excluded 'certain frequencies'

"Your assumption that Gate/Expander plugins would work on all frequencies is wrong. The threshold is there for a reason, it excludes certain frequencies which remain untouched."

Clue : the OP didnt ask for 3 bands. That isnt the use case. That's you finally realising that no, the threshold doesnt 'exclude certain frequencies' and looking for some way of still being right despite not having a clue of what these things actually mean.

Fabfilter Pro-G (the first plugin I threw in earlier) has a filter band that you can adjust, so that it works only on specific areas of the frequency spectrum. You could use it only from 0-500Hz. Then load another instance, use it only from 1k-1,5k Hz and so on.

And if they want to suppress 50 different frequency ranges, you'd suggest 50 instances, would you?
And if they want to suppress 200 different frequency ranges, you'd suggest 200 instances, would you?
What about 20,000 different frequencies. One at a time, with a different threshold for each.

Know what could do that in one instance? A spectral gate.

Which you'll find in about 0.0000001% of all the hits for gate.

"Multiband Gate" also has this feature and comes with 3 bands built in per instance: https://aixdsp.com/multiband-gate/

wow, three. And here was me thinking that if I made a massively simplified example as an illustration of something you were completely missing, then you'd be smart enough not to take it absolutely literally and run with it.

Lets try again. Imagine I had listed 250 separate bands. now tell me the plugin that does that, that isnt a spectral gate.

So yes, you can definitely find gate/expander plugins that allow control over frequency ranges, and knowing what these plugins are called certainly helps with searching for them.

still no.

Statistics: Posted by whyterabbyt — Thu Jun 06, 2024 11:39 pm

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