Define Dry/Wet for audio

[John Rofrano]

Dry refers to the unaltered signal. So if you were recording vocals dry, you wouldn’t add reverb or any FX. You’d just record the raw vocal and the add the FX later when you mix down.

Wet refers to an altered signal. When you record wet you would add an effect like reverb while you record so that its part of the recording.

When you encounter the terms wet/dry in an audio plug-in, dry refers the the original signal coming in and wet refers to the processed signal. If you have a wet/dry slider, that would determine how much of the original “dry” signal gets mixed in with the processed “wet” signal.

Does that make sense? If not, please feel free to ask questions. that’s how we all learn.

~jr

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[Bradley Mowell]

It makes great sense! Thanks a bunch!

You, by chance, haven’t seen Jeffery Fisher’s VASST Noise Reduction in Vegas DVD have you?

[John Rofrano]

Actually, I’m one of the VASST Trainers 😉 and I’ve watched Jeffrey’s training DVD all the way through twice and then from time-to-time I refer to it for different situations that I might encounter that I know Jeffrey has covered and I’ve forgotten how to handle (cuz’ it’s tough to keep all this stuff in your head unless you use it every day).

It’s a great resource to gain a basic understanding of audio and how to use the various plug-ins that come with Vegas (i.e., Noise Gate, EQ, Multi-Band Dynamics, etc.) to control noise. The thing that I like about Jeffrey’s DVD is that he does this for a living so he’s using real-world examples of problems he’s encountered to show you how to fix them. I find it easier to learn when you can relate to the example like that and I always try to do that in my own training.

~jr

https://www.johnrofrano.com/

[Kimberly Blanchard]

I found this thread when i was looking up what the wet signal gain was .. I need someone i can correspond with to help me with audio mixing in windows 7 while using videopad video editor.