YanKleber
Retired
This thread will certainly sound weird for you. Even the simplest things for you are a big mystery for me.
OK, my problem here is with compressors. I cannot to learn how to use them because I simply don't understand them in a conceptual manner.
I am sure that I have misunderstood compressors my whole life. All those years I have had a compressor as a tool to make a track sound leveled, by reducing loud parts and raising the quiet ones. However every time I try to use it for leveling a vocal track it seems not to do anything. I can see the led (or the needle) of the VU bouncing as if it was doing something but for my ears it doesn't seem to be doing anything. For leveling my vocals I have used volume automation and it surely does a job that I can notice. So the question that remains for me is... what the hell the compressor REALLY does and why I don't manage to use it?
OK, my problem here is with compressors. I cannot to learn how to use them because I simply don't understand them in a conceptual manner.
I am sure that I have misunderstood compressors my whole life. All those years I have had a compressor as a tool to make a track sound leveled, by reducing loud parts and raising the quiet ones. However every time I try to use it for leveling a vocal track it seems not to do anything. I can see the led (or the needle) of the VU bouncing as if it was doing something but for my ears it doesn't seem to be doing anything. For leveling my vocals I have used volume automation and it surely does a job that I can notice. So the question that remains for me is... what the hell the compressor REALLY does and why I don't manage to use it?