Did you know that Mixcast 4 has advanced effects to help create a professional sounding podcast?
Using reverb and pitch shift in real time can add some creative elements and help a production stick out,
while the advanced voice effects will make any vocal track sound like a big budget recording.
Let's take a look at how we can utilize these features.
First, we'll enter the menu, then the input menu. Then, select the microphone we want to effect.
I'm choosing mic 1, but any of the 4 mic inputs have this option.
We can see effect setting at the bottom of the screen. Touch that to select our real-time effects.
Here, we have reverb. We'll start by enabling that feature.
A message pops up letting us know that the effects will only work on one channel.
This is why I chose mic 1. I'm the only signal coming into the Mixcast 4, so I want to make sure my microphone is the one affected.
There are three presets: small, medium, and large reverbs.
These make use of various reverb times to give a sense of different sized spaces.
Under those we have a wet/dry balance to control. The amount of reverb mixed into the signal.
Closer to dry means we can hear more of the original source audio, and closer to wet means we have more of the reverb
mixed in, and less of the source audio.
After the presets we can see manual.
Touch that to enable it, then select the tools icon to access those settings.
We can see that there are five different room types to choose from:
hall, room, live, studio, and plate.
Beneath those we have some additional parameters: reverb time,
which is the tail of the reverb, or how long it takes for the reverberation to
fade out, which is measured in tenths of a second.
Pre-delay, this refers to the amount of time between the original audio and the start of the reverb.
This is measured in milliseconds. And lastly,
diffusion, which helps to control the density of the echo. A higher diffusion value will have a thicker sounding reverb,
while a lower value will have a thinner sound, but with a bit more clarity to the echo.
Each of the five types of rooms have their own preset but we can still adjust the individual parameters.
At any time, we can hit the reset button at the top of the screen
to reset the particular room sound we're working with.
We can also touch bypass to hear our unaffected signal, then touch bypass again to hear the reverb.
Now, let's navigate back to the effect setting menu.
We'll touch the arrow at the bottom right of the screen, and now we're in the voice changer menu.
We'll touch the button to enable the feature, and get a message reminding us that the effects
can only be used on one channel, just the same as the reverb.
This is a pitch shifting effect, a negative value pitches our audio down while a positive value pitches the signal up.
If we go back to the reverb menu, you'll notice it's been turned off automatically.
This is because we're able to use just one of the effects at a time.
Once enabled, these effects aren't on constantly so we'll need to navigate to the sound pad menu
in order to assign these to one of our pads. We can add these effects to any of
the sound banks, but I'm choosing a blank one for the sake of this demonstration. select the spot where we'd like to add
Select the spot where we'd like to add the effects. Next, touch the pad advanced menu.
We'll select the effect option and notice that our channel renames itself to effect automatically.
Now we'll navigate back to the pad settings menu, where we can assign a color to our effect sound pad
and then make sure the play method is set to touch.
This particular play method means that our effect will only be active
while we're pressing the corresponding pad. As soon as we let off of it, the effect ceases.
In addition to the creative effects, we have some advanced voice adjustments
that will make our voices sound more polished and professional.
We'll access our menu, then input menu, then whichever microphones we'll be using,
these effects can be used on all of our inputs simultaneously.
After selecting the voice setting option, you'll notice tone selections at the top.
Touch the button to enable that and we'll see three different preset options: deep, mid, and bright.
These presets will accentuate a person's voice. We also have the option of manual.
If we touch that, then the tools option will be brought to the tone manual settings menu.
We have high shelf and low shelf options, both with frequency and gain options.
High shelf can be used to either cut or boost trebley frequencies,
while low shelf boosts or cuts low end bass frequencies.
Touch the arrow at the bottom right of the screen and will be brought to the exciter menu.
We'll touch the button to enable this feature.
The exciter can enhance our voice by adjusting the frequency, ratio, and the gain settings.
If a voice sounds dull chances are we can give it some life with the exciter
We'll go back to the voice setting menu and enable the compressor.
The two presets are: soft, which gently compresses the loudest peaks,
and hard, which compresses a signal a great deal in order to even out the audio.
Again, we have a manual option. We'll enter that menu.
Now we have access to every parameter. in order to dial in a very precise compressor setting.
Back to the voice setting menu, we'll press the arrow at the bottom right of the screen and be taken to the processing menu.
Touch the button to enable the feature. Then we see our de-esser, which cuts harsh sibilance from our voice.
Noise suppression. This helps to lower the volume or cut out excess noise between speech.
And ducking. Ducking is only available on mic 1.
When signal is input into mic 1 while ducking is active, all the other channels will have their
output lowered in order to make mic 1 stand out more.
By touching any or all of these, they are activated with preset parameters.
However, we can touch the tools icon on them to be taken to a more
in-depth menu where we can fine-tune the various settings.
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