User Manual

Chapter 5: Strike Parameters 31
Size Adjusts the decay of the Room signal to
simulate smaller or larger recording spaces.
Width Adjusts the stereo width of the Room sig-
nal.
Surround Sends an additional two channels of
room ambience into the Overhead channel, so a
total of four channels are available which can be
panned to the front and rear for a surround ef-
fect. The surround signal passes through the
Overhead EQ, inserts and fader, and to the audio
output selected for the Overhead channel. The
Surround LED is lit when activated.
Talkback
The Talkback channel is a mono microphone,
originally placed in the recording room near to
the drummer and heavily compressed to hear
what he is saying, but later utilized as an effect.
The Talkback microphone captures a sound sim-
ilar to Overhead and Room microphones, but
produces a very hard, compressed, and slightly
dirty sound.
Drive Adjusts the gain of the Talkback channel
compression. Increased Drive makes the Talk-
back signal more dense and slightly distorted.
Master
The Master channel is Strike’s main output. All
channels are mixed down to this channel by de-
fault, and then output to the Pro Tools Instru-
ment or Auxiliary Input track on which Strike is
inserted.
Close Mics Adjusts the overall level of the Close
microphones routed to the Master channel.
Mic Leakage Adjusts the level of “bleed” across
the different microphones. When recording
drums in a studio environment, each micro-
phone picks up some signal of all of the instru-
ments in the drum kit. At the minimum setting,
each microphone only captures the sound from
one Instrument.
Snare Buzz Adjusts the amount of sympathetic
resonance of the snare drum when the kick
drum and toms are played. In a real drum kit the
snares of the snare drum rattle whenever an-
other nearby drum is hit, particularly the kick
drum. In Strike, the level is variable so you can
choose between an ultra-clean kick drum sound
at a lower setting, or a “live” sounding kit at a
higher setting.
EQ (Equalizer)
Strike provides a three-band equalizer for each
track. Each of the three colored dots represents
and controls an equalizer band. Click a channel
to select it, and display its Equalizer and Effects
inserts.
To change the gain of an equalizer band:
■ Click one of the three colored dots, hold the
mouse button and drag up to boost, or move
down to attenuate the band’s gain.
To change the frequency of an Equalizer band:
■ Click the desired band dot and drag left or
right.