How many times have you found yourself asking things like “this snare needs more character and weight” or “it’s not punchy enough…”? Maybe someone told you those are things you can get with compression, right? So you started tweaking your plugin and, after a while, discovered you were nowhere close to the sound you had …
Finding the right balance for your kick drum within a mix might be a huge challenge. Sometimes, especially with hard-hitting music styles, no matter what you do, you just can’t hear it. So you raise the level of your track to hear it more, but suddenly that kick is definitely too loud and everything goes …
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this short series, we touched on the role of compression and all the basic parameters you need to know to start dealing with compression and unlock its full potential. In this last part, I want to give you a step-by-step guide you may use to start setting up a compressor. If …
In Part 1 of this short series, we made up some clarity on what is the role of the compressor and some of its parameters. Today I want to give you the missing points to be able to make use of compression with confidence. Read on… Attack Time Question: “How fast will the compressor react …
When we hear about compressors for the first time, we think at something with some kind of “dark magic” in it, something that will make our mixes and tones better somehow, no matter the source or the settings. We don’t know how to actually use it and this will lead us to put it on …