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Click on PART 2 | All Things Audio with Ken "Pooch" Van Druten
[00:00:00] This is the primary source expander. It's a very, very simple tool to activate. As you see while I'm talking
[00:00:08] the blue meter is actually my input level. This is what comes into the plugin.
[00:00:14] Okay? Now what I can do it's like that. As you see on the red here it says range.
[00:00:22] This is basically what it's gonna do. It's gonna, if I gonna move it and click for example on minus or drag the handle
[00:00:31] it's gonna go to minus six minus seven etcetera. What it's gonna do so between the phrases when I gonna stop talking
[00:00:40] it's gonna duck the audio my audio by this amount. So you're not gonna hear it right now because we're not connected in a
[00:00:51] problem but you can see what it's gonna happen. So you see as soon as I'm start talking the red meter
[00:00:58] it's actually initiates here. You see it? So what happens is when I'm start to stop talking the audio
[00:01:07] is actually it's same thing like you have your finger on a fader. Okay? On a pastor's fader and every
[00:01:14] time he stops talking you're moving the fader by eight db down. Okay? And then immediately up.
[00:01:22] You were just watching a clip from the tech arts podcast entitled part two all things audio with
[00:01:31] Ken Pooch van Druten in that podcast we do a full church tech tip which includes what you just saw
[00:01:38] Kotler plus another seven or eight minutes where he impacts the primary source expander how it works
[00:01:45] how waves audio plugins came about to invent the primary source expander. It's very interesting and you don't
[00:01:53] want to miss it so make sure you go over to the tech arts podcast which is at tech arts podcast dot com
[00:01:59] and check out the latest podcast called part two all things audio with Ken Pooch van Druten