User Manual

WAVELAB
33 – 786 Plug-in Processor Reference
Voice Attenuator
This plug-in can be used to remove lead vocals from a recording, to pro-
duce a “karaoke” effect. The principle concept is based on the fact that
vocals are usually mixed to center position in the stereo field, and that the
human voice occupies a limited area of the frequency spectrum.
Note, however, that it is nearly impossible to remove a vocal completely,
without using very complex processing beyond the scope of this plug-in.
• If the Remove Mono button is activated, the plug-in will sum the right and the left
channels (with one of the channels out of phase), in the frequency range set by
the Low and High Frequency parameters. This method will only work with stereo
material.
• If the Notch Filter button is activated, the plug-in will filter out the signals within
the frequency range set with the Low and High Frequency parameters, by apply-
ing a notch (band reject) filter. This method can be used with both stereo and
mono material.
• The Gain parameter allows you to adjust the output level of the plug-in.
VSTDynamics
General Information
The VST Dynamics plug-in combines five separate processors; Auto-
Gate, Compress, AutoLevel, Limit and SoftClip, covering a variety of Dy-
namic Processing functions. The VST Dynamics window is divided into
five sections, containing controls and meters for each processor. You ac-
tivate the VST Dynamics panel by clicking the “On” button in the lower
right corner. Once VST Dynamics is activated, you can turn the individual
processors on and off by clicking on their labels. Activated processors
have highlighted labels.
You can activate as many processors as you want, but remember that not
all processors are designed to work together. For example, “Limit” and
“SoftClip” are both designed to ensure that the output never exceeds
0dB, but achieve this in different ways. To have both of them activated
would be unnecessary. The internal signal flow is printed in the lower right
part of the Dynamics panel.