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Subject: Compressor Help
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Original Message 1/8 12-May-00 @ 10:24 AM - Compressor Help
Message 2/8 12-May-00 @ 02:28 PM - RE: Compressor Help
Message 3/8 16-May-00 @ 04:43 AM - RE: Compressor Help
or you can record the compressed signal onto your hard disk and play it back.
i wouldn't necessarily agree that everything needs to be compressed. some instruments, particularly digital sounds, don't have a big dynamic range - although vocals and analogue blurps and squelches do often need a bit of flattening.
you can go overboard so watch out.
Message 4/8 17-May-00 @ 04:50 AM - RE: Compressor Help
i mean is it best to mix all the drum parts together first, then compress the drum mix a bit.... then mix the bass in...
or is it better to say mix the kick & bass together first, then compress, then add the other percussion etc....
or just compress each track individually then mix the lot together.
is their any standard approach?
cheers.
Message 5/8 25-May-00 @ 08:40 AM - RE: Compressor Help
-Craig
Message 6/8 29-May-00 @ 09:21 PM - RE: Compressor Help
Don't underestimate the effect that big changes in amplitude can have in a track. Compress everything and you'll lose it.
The only example I can think of off the top of the my head that (maybe) everyone will know is Smack My Bitch Up by the Prodigy. The first big kick drum sounds massive because the intro is relatively quiet. Watch the levels when that comes in. If that was all hard compressed, then that kick would sound very weedy in comparison.
MikeC
Message 7/8 30-May-00 @ 11:00 PM - RE: Compressor Help
Message 8/8 01-Jun-00 @ 06:29 AM - RE: Compressor Help
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