Imagine the drummer hits the snare drum twice as hard as normal. The compressor should engage quickly and compress a lot of the audio signal. This amount of compression is viewed as the compression ratio. RATIO Ratios show how loud the signal must be in decibels in order to allow 1 decibel...
In basic terms, the ratio is how many dB the compressor is turning down the source per every dB it surpasses the threshold, which is essentially the ceiling at which it starts to compress. So, with a 2:1 ratio, for every 2 db the source passes the threshold, the sound will compress ...
I've seen many advise to record dry, and compress/limit on line. The recent thread onrecording a kick drum, however, suggests recording with limiting and compression. I think the cardinal rule is, the better you get yer kit sounding up front, the less work it is later. if you are com...
When adding percussion, you’re giving it an organic flavor to make things a bit more human — so you’ll want to strike a balance between a processed and natural feel. You can compress percussion heavily in EDM, but you’ll need to pay attention to the releases — if they’re too ...
Bright guitars covering up the lead vocal: Insert a dynamic EQ or multiband compressor on the offending guitars. Set it to subtly turn down or compress the frequency range where the vocal is present and bright. You know what’s next; send the vocal to the sidechain! Whenever the vocal is...
2. COMPRESS IN STAGES FOR MAXIMUM MIX LOUDNESS Don’t put all of the compression at the end; compress little by little each time. A powerful kick drum and a powerful snare drum will begin with little compression on each channel, a little compression on the drum bus, and a little compress...
Doing so causes the backing vocal to sound slightly louder, as it’s now in its own space. We can counter that using S1 Stereo Imager’s Gain fader. 6. Compress the Lead Vocal for More Energy While our lead vocal recording isn’t excessively dynamic, it does contain some peaks that jum...
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Because Logic Pro’s multiband compressor only allows up to 4 frequency bands, I added another Multipressor effect, so I can target another frequency range to compress. The hi-hats in my song example were quite prominent, so I tried attenuating them by compressing a high-frequency range betwee...
One last consideration, other than the vocals at the forefront of the arrangement, is how to mix your dembow song. This is one type of production where you can easily overcompress your drums, as you want to keep the release tails as short as possible (and compression by nature will make...