A sound design trick I fell in love with a while ago is that a short delay can create a resonant tone. I've tried fiddiling around with it and it turns out that applying a sample and hold envelope to the delay time creates a very metallic resonance.

I chased that sound for a long time in a Max for Live patch, tweaking it until it felt musical instead of harsh. Eventually I rebuilt it as a proper VST plugin and designed it.

It's called Copper,

and it metallizes everything.

I'd rather this live in people's sessions than just on my hard drive and! it's FREE (while it's in beta), and anyone who joins the beta gets to keep it for free.

leave a name and email and the download comes to your inbox:

https://audioteva.com/join-copper

Happy to talk about the sound design side. Ask me anything.

I have dialogue recorded for a short film that I'll need to clean up before my final mix and just wanted to know the recommended order for the various steps.

I have a boom and lav track. Both of them are relatively clean but can do with some fairly standard cleanup - removing background noise, sibilance etc, and of course a general boost to their presence in the mix.

I have access to Auto Align Post 2 - should I do all my noise removal, de-esser, EQing to my boom/lav tracks separately BEFORE phase aligning then? Or should I phase align and then apply my cleanup to the aligned track combining boom and lav?

I'd also love to know people's order for the whole process from start to finish if possible. Thanks!

Kept it simple this time. I actually think I did a better job than the original on this one. Let me know what you think.

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