I’m questioning all of you because I got the London Session in exchange of my BFD2 serial.
I never tried BD2 content inside BFD3 but I noticed that it sounded really loud compared to the rest : big ambience and the sound level peaked really fast.
Does anyone knows how to balance this pack with the rest ? I found a script that was supposed to edit the pack and set everything to -5 db but it didn’t work. Can I do it manually and permanently on the files, so that I don’t have to tweak it everytime I load a kit piece ?
London was really loud. Always was. I’m not near my drive now, but IIRC there’s a line in the tweaks.xml files can be used to adjust the volume of each kit piece, individually and permanently. I believe I did this at some point. Your script almost definitely did that.
Yes the script is intented to change the tweaks.xml files.
I downloaded Python but it doesn’t change anything. Maybe that’s because they say it’s for Python 2 and I have Python 3 but that’s a bit silly…
So I tried by editing manually the line “BFD2ArticTweaks name=“BFD2ArticTweaks” trim_dB=“0”>” from every Orange County Snare articulation, putting -5 instead of 0 but it didn’t change anything… I must do something wrong.
The thing is that I don’t know if I have to manually edit the rest of the files, like for the “hit” articulation, below the BFD2ArticTweaks there are 33 lines like this :
Yes I don’t know what goes wrong, the explanation is really simple. I put the .py file in the London Directory, when I launch it, a window appears for less than a second without saying anything and nothing has been changed. I don’t know what to do.
But for what I can see, BFD2 content is really hard to mix with newer sounds…
I remember when I first bought BFD2 in 2008 that it was LOUD and all the levels were red lining.
I thought to myself that the developers could have done a lot better than to let something out of the gate that was annoying to listen to.
I suspect that maybe the samples were also recorded hot - or at unity - when perhaps others have lower peak levels. Not sure.
I solved the issue by creating kits with the mixer volumes down about -6db or so. That worked. Then I started using Slate Drums as well. There’s always a give and take, it seems. Nothing’s perfect.