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In Reply to: Re: Compressor usage. posted by Bill Fitzmaurice on March 3, 2003 at 06:55:20:
Just a bit of clarification Mike. If you feed your compressor off the aux sends, you will only be compressing that pamount of the signal you feed via the aux. This means that what is being fed to the main mixing buss via the fader isn't going through the compressor! This really defeats the aim of compression.Almost all desks have an insert jack(s) on each channel and sometimes on groups (thats assuming your desk has groups). The object with compression is to patch the whole signal of say a vocal out of the desk, through the compressor and back into the desk.
As Bill suggests if you only have only one two channel compressor you may want to patch this across your main mix buss. If this is the case I would use a fairly gentle compression ratio of around 2:1 - 3:1 using between 4 - 8db of gain reduction.
The two instruments that you mention that particularly will benefit the most from compression will be the Bass Drum and the Vocals. If you can afford it, possibly buying 2 x 2channel compressors (secondhand Berhinger autocoms are very cheap and usable, about £40 each) and compress the vocals and the Bass drum. Remember that the whole signal needs to be passing through the unit.
If possible I would try and get an engineer that is used to using compressors to try and show you the basics and what you can do with them.
Regards
Roland
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- Re: Compressor usage. - Roland 08:17:29 03/03/03 (2)
- Re: Compressor usage. - Mike 09:10:47 03/03/03 (1)
- Re: Compressor usage. - Roland 15:19:00 03/03/03 (0)
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