
So, a combination of eyes and ears are good for optimising the Adaption control. As you listen, if you are hearing the reverb come back in the gaps it’s too low, and if you hear parts of the wanted signal being removed, you have got the Adaption control too high. Try to set this control by looking at the slope and shape of the original audio in green and adjust the Adaption control so that the orange section matches the shape and steepness of the decay of the audio. Although technically not accurate, the best way to help you understand what the Adaption control is doing is to consider it as a release control. Now start to play the audio and first off, adjust the Adaption control. Set the Focus control to maximum, set the transient threshold here all the way over to the right and then set Localize, Refract and Presence to a minimum. To reduce the reverb, you may want to start with the Default Unveil settings, which you do by clicking on a little grey triangle and selecting Factory Presets and Default down at the bottom.
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And thirdly, Unveil gives you full access to control the algorithm that is under the hood. This control also affects the amount of unmasking the plugin performs. The first thing you will notice is that Unveil is not a ‘one-knob’ kind of a plugin and the second is that the control which adjusts the reverb/direct mix is called FOCUS. Let’s start by taking a look at the plugin. To get us going, in this tutorial, we are going to concentrate on reducing reverb, because once we can do that, then moving onto the other things Unveil can do is much easier. Also, since it does not use Fourier transform-based filtering, it does its magic with a minimum of side effects, keeping your signal crisp, clean and transparent.Īs a result of this technique, Unveil can also be used for up-mixing, by separating the reverb of a recording and using the reverb for the rear channels, while using the de-reverberated signal for the front channels, and these two signals are exactly complementary as there are no phase-shift induced resonances, which you can get when using an EQ or some other up-mixing strategies. This means that it can be applied to mono and stereo, even surround channel configurations with equal ease and success. Using a pattern recognition based algorithm that de-mixes the signal has the advantage of not requiring stereo information to determine room reflections from the signal. It assigns the detected patterns a significance based on their statistical properties and attenuates or boosts the parts that do not appear to contribute a significant amount of information to the signal. Unveil uses a process based on pattern recognition and perceptive modelling to determine perceptually relevant information within an audio stream. Feedback delay is often a relevant part of a composition, and should thus be considered as part of the signal rather than as reverb. Unveil has been designed to leave discrete echoes untouched. Instead, Unveil is based on Zynaptiq’a MAP de-mixing technology, whereby it separates foreground components from background components and enables you to process these separately.

Zynaptiq stresses that Unveil is not a gate/expander, transient shaper, or a denoiser-like FFT thresholding processor and that it does not use any phase cancellation or inter-channel correlation. As a result of the technique Zynaptiq uses, Unveil can attenuate or boost other components that human perception regards as ‘background’ signals, like some types of ambience or what some people describe as ‘mud’ in music mixes. Zynaptiq Unveil is a plug-in designed to enable you to attenuate or boost the amount of reverb in a mixed-signal, even on mono sources.
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In this free expert tutorial, brought to you with the support of Zynaptiq, Mike Thornton shows how to reduce the reverb from a drum loop and a speech clip using a technique that is not in the Unveil manual. Zynaptiq Unveil has the power to reduce reverb in a mix.
