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Compressor tutorial or FAQ, esp re drums?

What are your favorite compressor tutorials or FAQ's? I found this one with sample settings: http://www.rane.com/note1558.html

I'm trying to get drum sounds to be a bit more even dynamically without turning to mush, in particular the kick drum. A quick search here and on google suggests tweaking the attack time. How do you apply compression to recorded drums?

And, for multiband compressors on a stereo mix, what are your rules of thumb or starting points, and what are you listening for as you tweak the settings?
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If you do a search there's actually a compression tutorial on this site. I think maybe SouthSide Glen was the one who wrote it, either way just do a search it's around.
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If you do a search there's actually a compression tutorial on this site. I think maybe SouthSide Glen was the one who wrote it, either way just do a search it's around.
the link is in his sig.
Highly recomended. Theres also some good ones at the sos archive.



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This article has audio examples! It is an excellent read. Doesn't tell you much about what everything on a compressor does, but it shows excellent examples of what certain settings will do!

http://www.recordingproject.com/arti....php?article=6
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http://emusician.com/mag/emusic_big_squeeze/



In the paragragh "improvment plan" ignore the statement about using all the bits for better resolution: thats 16 bit thinking. Not applicable to 24bit. The article was writen on '01




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