Because its for when you start mixing the track. If you need to move a certain instruments or effect them like volume automation or bring up or adjust one of the instruments in anyway you wont be able to cause your gonna have to close that session remix the instrumental and pipe it back in to...
hey, shot this in GS see what you guys think
Sorry guys, could be total talking out of my ass here but was reading this post And many others like it where the professional mastering engineers are being "flushed out" (for lack of a better word) by a non professional market. I have the utmost...
Also GONZO is right I have never not seen an external comp in the recording chain.
A professional trackng chain most of the times consist of
Mic->Pre Amp->Comp (for whatever reason GONZO stated)->External A/D Converter (sometimes)->DAW Converters->PC
I think thats what people are missing is that it can be used for different things. People hear compression they automatically think LOUD. When thinking of it as a tracking tool they think too LOUD & permanent. GONZO, I mean for the people that are not professional you could clearly see the...
Same way you process everything record @ -18 dB. You should proly rebalance everything else in the mix you can't get vocal to fit. (FL Studio is not ideal for mixing & recording) record solo yeah external pre amp might be good you can get double it or triple. Are you compression correctly to get...