Compression

[Moodydodds]

What is a good compression ratio to use for scratching to keep the peaks from busting your speakers.

[JC Lives]

Well, while compression may help, I think you should reach fo rthe eq to start. I would try first using your high pass filter (if available). Next you want to get rid of some of the bass. Based on the sound that you are trying to capture, you do not need a lot of bass.

As far as compression, using a higher ratio is just going to squish the sound. It realy won't get rid of the frequencies that can send your speakers to the doctor. What I recommend is trying various settings to see what you can get. Typically, higher ratios will tend to color the sound and create a pumping effect. If that effect is musically in tuned with the song, well there you go.

Hope this helps

Peace
Joe

[regebro]

If you are trying to protect your speakers against high peaks in the music, a limiter seems to be a better choice that a compressor.
But maybe scrathing is different.