Audio comparator patch...

A thing that you can do in order to make better sounding final mixes is comparing your tracks to similar sounding commercial ones. For that purpose, I`ve made a combi patch which uses three vocoders in a spectrum analyzing mode. 

Before ending up into the vocoders, the three signals pass through independent compressors and stereo imagers, so that I can be able to control their volume and to be able to isolate their low / hi ends. I assign each of those operations to a single modifier of the combinator, so that I can make changes simultaneously for all of the vocoders. 

When you input the audio signal into the combinator, it passes trough an audio merger and splitter. One signal goes to the output of the combinator and another goes into the first compressor -> first stereo imager -> first vocoder.

Two NN-19 Digital Sampler devices (controlled by two matrixes, repeating short loops) are already connected to the second and the third compressors -> stereo imagers -> vocoders. Use them to play the reference tracks - loops of songs which you like to make your song sound similar to. They are not supposed to output any sound, just to show you the song`s spectral makeup. 

The patch is helpful at giving you literally a better picture of what you are doing. Of course, the EARS always have to have the final say. 

Here is the spectrum combi backdrop:

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