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Help setting a compressor - mrskytown11 - 11-08-2019
What’s the best way to compress a signal, do I compress only loud peaks or compress the entire signal and adjust the makeup gain to compensate loss of volume.
Usually I like to have a low setting compressor to just touch any peaks after I have a previous compressor in the signal chain, but when compressing a piano or vocals I know that if the piano is too dynamic in the mix then I would need to compress it more to even out the dynamics, but I have a hard time hitting the compressor just right
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RE: Help setting a compressor - Dingo - 11-08-2019
(11-08-2019, 08:43 AM)mrskytown11 Wrote: when compressing a piano or vocals I know that if the piano is too dynamic in the mix then I would need to compress it more to even out the dynamics, but I have a hard time hitting the compressor just right
On vocals and piano, try the Leveler mode on the fader strip dynamics.