I’m trying to help a friend with mAirlist. We have added some songs to the database and use a jingle between the songs. The strange thing is that when a jingle has been played, the first part of the song is not as loud as the rest of the song. It sounds like some kind of ducking, or so.
I have noticed that when I use the Mix Editor, and let the song start earlier over the jingle, the ‘ducking’ is happening until the jingle has been finished.
This has been request by a lot of people - it’s now possible to place sweepers over the ramp in AUTO mode, also if the sweeper is shorter than the ramp. We call this “Paddding”, as the sweeper is padded with silence and started at the same time as the song. You can set the padding in the Mix Editor, just by dragging the sweeper to the right over some kind of virtual “notch”.
@Torben What you hear in the attached audiofile (from my opening post) is what happens when I play a song, a jingle and a song. The jingle has StartNext, the song has an Intro. Then this automatically happens. So it seems like it also happens outside of the Mix Editor? Can you check this for me?
Where did you record this from? The live output? I listened to it multiple times and for me it seems that the ducking begins right after the Sound effect of the Jingle so that the male voice volume is decreased too after some milliseconds.
That would be a typical reaction of a compressor to instantly limit the volume when your jingle is too loud and increase the volume right after the loud input vanished. Are your jingles normalized/right levelled?
This has been recorded directly from the soundcard we used for the layout. We did not use a compressor such as StereoTool. This is the sound that would go into a compressor. Or do you mean mAirlist is using some kind of compressor?
Alright. I normalized the jingles and now the problem is solved. So, for anyone not wanting to have this kind of ducking: normalize your songs and jingles :).