Compressor settings!!!! I have them!!!!

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Made you look.........check out this observation.

"Ask any experienced engineer for suggestions on compressor

settings for various instruments and you're likely to be met with a

blank stare. They are not trying to be evasive. The best settings

depend on a host of variables: the type of compressor used

(opto, fet, variable mu, VCA), the units detector circuitry response,

the amount of peak vs. average energy in the track you want to

process, the dynamics of the performance, what kind of envelope

shape or sound, the outboard gears noise floor and on and on

and on......."
--- Use your ears is a tired phrase. especially to those who are relatively new to all of this., but ears are still the best tools to contextually evaluate the sound of dynamics processing.
 
It's definately an epiphony when you finally understand and can hear the effects of compression. I remember fifteen years ago when a peer told me I needed a compressor and I bought one I couldn't set the damn thing to save my life. One day while playing with it for hours I could all of a sudden hear how it was working and the effect it was having and it hit me like a ton of bricks (I suppose that's brick wall limiting). :D
 
yep!

Trouble is, there are too many people around who think that there are "magic buttons" on equipment and software settings that makes everything perfect!

"And God said, 'Let there be [Preset #5]'"
 
While I don't have a standard compressor setting....

...I absolutely swear by the "small ambient church hall stadium" preset on one of my verbs.......

How they can get the decay to be both 10 mS AND 3.5 secs at the SAME TIME is beyond me... the amazing power of digital, I suppose! :p



:D :D

Bruce
 
I have to admit, the "suck" preset on a 3630 seems to work every time no matter what program material you put thru it.:D
 
I thought, the "SUCK" filter on the 3630 was in-line with the circuitry and was not defeatable?!?!? No?
 
In this months Future Music magazine the Alesis 3630 beat out the TL Audio, Joe Meek, Behringer Composer, and coming in last place was.....the FMR RNC. Check it out if you see it on the newstand.
 
well, it's obvious what the right setting is...

Infinity....with the threshold at -1. Not used as a compressor, but as a limiter...

That's the only way I can keep that f$%#$% drummer from peaking out my digital recording gear....friggen dynamics anyway.

:D

RB
 
Wide Awake said:
In this months Future Music magazine the Alesis 3630 beat out the TL Audio, Joe Meek, Behringer Composer, and coming in last place was.....the FMR RNC. Check it out if you see it on the newstand.
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If that's so then it's a good example of a mag to stay away from, obviously.............. :eek:
 
Hell, I've never even heard of it. Is that like the music equivilent of Boy's Life or something?
 
It's a magazine from the UK. It's very synth and techno music oriented, and it includes a CD in every issue so you can hear the artists music and listen to the gear that they review.

They just lost some credibility with me because of that compressor shoot-out. I read that the RNC is coming out in a new version that will include balanced I/O and a couple of other things. Can anyone substantiate that ?
 
Future Music.

Isn't this the same mag that rated the Soundblaster Live a 10 out of 10 rating as a recording soundcard (Editor's Choice!) last year?

Whose pocket are they in?
Shazam!
 
They have even had some nice things to say about B-word products (am I a snob).

Definitely a mag to distrust.
 
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