This is done so you don't have alot of peaking/ducking and unwanted distortion in your mix. Rather the culprit was a loud snare hit or a vocalist hissing or popping too loudly in the microphone, the signal is alot more mixable now that compression has been applied. See here that the signal was compressed to tame the transients on the end of the wavform. Instead of just listening for a difference, also watch the difference! Comps are usually used on drums and vocals because of the unintentional emphasis on certain beats/notes that usually occur with drums and vocals. Whats your technique and what would you advice me?Ī standard compressor, compresses the signal to tame out of control artifacts on a bus/channel/mix rather you are using it for chaining of just patching up some wild vocals. My technique of compressing is: pull threshold completely down, max attack, min release and then slow start reducing attack and suit everything to need. i own the KRK rp8s though cant treat my room (not an option sadly).
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Though i know what attack release and all the parameters do, i dont know how to customise them for diff signals. Obv, when the make up gain is added it gets louder and when not it get softer.
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now when i say that i mean, when i put on a compressor i dont really know when its effect is too much or too little. Though what i cant get is, i can't seem to hear the effect of a compressor much. i know know a compressor reduces the difference between the highest and the lowest peak of a signal so the volume can be raised. For eg i know what a ratio/knee etc does. Okay i know what all the controls on a compressor are for.
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I know compression has been spoken about A LOT! though im still unclear.