Up Your Expressiveness with Upward Expansion

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You’ll hear that the peaks from the kick and snare are still prominent, but the room sound and cymbals are a bit lower by comparison. In the final two measures, the range is -4.00 (I rarely take it lower, as long as the Event hits close to 0 on peaks). The first two measures are the original acoustic guitar track, and the next two use Multiband Dynamics to accent the strums (Fig. The Multiband Dynamics are in a separate, parallel track (you could build this into an FX Chain, but I think showing this in two channels illustrates the process better). Because the Multiband Dynamics is listening to only the high frequencies, which are quite weak and not sufficient to go over the expander threshold, the Input control is adding +10 dB of gain.

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