Compared to Transient Designer's two knobs, there's a lot more here to fiddle with. What?!? Hell, I just grab sliders on this plug-in and start tweaking. In this way the resulting level envelope at the output of the TransMod can be modified dramatically to accentuate or attenuate aspects of the dynamic profile of the sound, whilst drawing from the natural characteristics of the original programme signal.' This value is then subjected to processing that extracts the rate of change of the programme level envelope, which is used to modify the forward gain of the output signal during the periods of dynamic activity in the programme. The manual states: 'The Sony Transient Modulator functions by producing a continuous value that is proportional to the dynamic level encountered at its input (i.e., the programme level envelope). Gee whiz, with the exception of maybe some organs, keyboards and overly compressed vocals, that's just about anything right? Exactly. Transmod is short for Transient Modulator, and like the SPL Transient Designer, the point here is serious control over-or the ability to seriously fuck up if you prefer- sounds with transients.

Ever since I installed Transmod on our studio's computer, every engineer who's used it has raved about it and referred to it as one of the only must-have plug-ins for their sessions. The Transmod plug-in is like SPL's Transient Designer hardware, but with much more control and flexibility, at a fraction of the cost. Well, since he doesn't use Pro Tools, he won't be able to use Transmod, which, among many capabilities, will do exactly that.

I seem to recall Steve Albini saying something at one of the TapeOpCons about how he wished there was a box that could turn the hi-hat down on a drummer's kit.

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