“I know it’s late but please help me out guys!” – this is how it all starts:
Today I’ve attended for the first time an Europe WeekendTesting session. For EWT #17 we had to test a software compressor plugin that our “manager” asked us to throw an eye at for 1 hour and see if he and his band can use it in tonight’s concert.
If you’re wondering why did he waited for the last minute? Beats me, he only told us that his hardware compressor was broken and that he was in an urgent need of such a tool for his concert and this software compressor appeared to be a good choice given the circumstances.
To get things started:
I’ve installed the software given to us by our manager, loaded an *.wav file and pressed the play button. Right after the song started playing I realized that I have no clue on how this software works and what does it suppose to do.
So I begin to search the Internet about the rocket and minihost software in order to learn more about them and noted down their websites. Then I wanted to learn more on software compressors and ended up on Wikipedia where I’ve found something about audio compressors, what they are and how they work. All this had taken me 15-20 min.