Compressor tutorial or FAQ, esp re drums?

[Chill]

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?

 

[jonnyc]

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.

 

[flatfinger]

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.

 

[Ford Van]

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/articles/article.php?article=6

 

[flatfinger]

Here's another


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

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

the link is in his sig.

See below

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[Chill]

Thanks, all!