12-28-2019, 04:11 PM
Hi
Although not always necessary, with two compressors you can do stuff that you cannot do with one.
One setup I like is create multiple ratios: by having one compressor set to 2:1 threshold -20dB and a second 2:1 threshold -10dB, you create a compressor with a ratio of 4:1 between -10 and 0dB, and 2:1 between -20 and -10dB.
You could add a 3rd with a threshold of -5....
Another one, I use it sometimes for bass (acoustic, upright, or electric) is first a compressor that is setup as parallel compressor (50% dry, and 50% quite heavily compressed with some make up gain, so that you have the attack of the dry signal, and the sustain and consistency of the compressed signal, the amount of make up gain will determine the ‘sound’) and this is followed by a limiter, to cut any excessive peaking. (Of the 50% dry sound)
Always keep in mind that when daisy chaining compressors, the ratios do not sum, but multiply. So work with modest ratios.
Good luck!
Daniel
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Although not always necessary, with two compressors you can do stuff that you cannot do with one.
One setup I like is create multiple ratios: by having one compressor set to 2:1 threshold -20dB and a second 2:1 threshold -10dB, you create a compressor with a ratio of 4:1 between -10 and 0dB, and 2:1 between -20 and -10dB.
You could add a 3rd with a threshold of -5....
Another one, I use it sometimes for bass (acoustic, upright, or electric) is first a compressor that is setup as parallel compressor (50% dry, and 50% quite heavily compressed with some make up gain, so that you have the attack of the dry signal, and the sustain and consistency of the compressed signal, the amount of make up gain will determine the ‘sound’) and this is followed by a limiter, to cut any excessive peaking. (Of the 50% dry sound)
Always keep in mind that when daisy chaining compressors, the ratios do not sum, but multiply. So work with modest ratios.
Good luck!
Daniel
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