cut or compress?

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I sweep for naughty frequencies, and then cut them in para EQ. Some people talk about using multiband compression to deal with these same frequencies. What's the difference?

Cool Edit, if I'm not mistaken, has a kind of cumbersome multiband compression tool - you key in the frequency range you want its compressor to operate at. I'll try it if compression of problematic frequencies is preferable to cutting them.
 
Actually I found cool edits compression most useful as a multiband compressor and not as useful for basic compression especially if youre compressing at greater than 2:1 ratios with sig gain. But I do alot of soft knee (1.5:1 compressing and 10:1 expand below -92dB) bet 10k and 24k. The advantage of doing that with compression as opposed to EQ is if youve already compressed or have the track at the level you want it to be at, you dont have to hard limit or recompress or normalize to avoid clipping as you would if you did it in EQ. Also it sounds dif and sometimes gives a track magic that boosting the same frequencies in paraEQ does not. I havent used the multiband to cut frequencies as paraEQ is much more straightforward.
 
When you cut -4dB using parametric EQ, you affect whole selected range ( ALL instruments on that frequency are cut for 4dB, level of whole range is lower 4 dB ).
When multiband is used, only peaking frequency ( above theshold ) is lowered, depending on ratio - if snare have some nasty peak at 2kHz, you can compress only the peaks, without compromising of frequency response ( this can degrade sound of lead vocal )
 
Okay, but I'm talking about on a track-by-track basis, so if I cut a frequency somewhere, it only affects that track, that one instrument, and nothing else. But if, as JuSum says, it *sounds* different, then I'd better try it... :D

I like that bit about compressing frequencies not affecting the level of a track like cutting frequencies does. But if you deal with EQ first, you don't run into that problem, right?
 
Question?

Guys,

how you notice tgat the "snare is peaking"..

Do you analyze the whole track mixed or you analyze every track separated?






FUNKY
 
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