general compression?

[stupidfatnugly]

I found this list for general EQ and it has been really helpful.
I was wondering if there are some general compression settings for these instruments or atleast maybe certain settings that you would never use.
like you wouldn't boost your hi hat at 50hz or you would never apply a 6:1 ratio to something.

Kick Drum

Any apparent muddiness can be rolled off around 300Hz. Try a small boost around 5-7kHz to add some high end.

50-100Hz ~ Adds bottom to the sound
100-250Hz ~ Adds roundness
250-800Hz ~ Muddiness Area
5-8kHz ~ Adds high end prescence
8-12kHz ~ Adds Hiss

Snare

Try a small boost around 60-120Hz if the sound is a little too wimpy. Try boosting around 6kHz for that 'snappy' sound.

100-250Hz ~ Fills out the sound
6-8kHz ~ Adds prescence

Hi hats or cymbals

Any apparent muddiness can be rolled off around 300Hz. To add some brightness try a small boost around 3kHz.

250-800Hz ~ Muddiness area
1-6kHz ~ Adds presence
6-8kHz ~ Adds clarity
8-12kHz ~ Adds brightness

Bass

Try boosting around 60Hz to add more body. Any apparent muddiness can be rolled off around 300Hz.If more presence is needed, boost around 6kHz.

50-100Hz ~ Adds bottom end
100-250Hz ~ Adds roundness
250-800Hz ~ Muddiness Area
800-1kHz ~ Adds beef to small speakers
1-6kHz ~ Adds presence
6-8kHz ~ Adds high-end presence
8-12kHz ~ Adds hiss

Vocals

This is a difficult one, as it depends on the mic used to record the vocal. However...Apply either cut or boost around 300hz, depending on the mic and song.Apply a very small boost around 6kHz to add some clarity.

100-250Hz ~ Adds 'up-frontness'
250-800Hz ~ Muddiness area
1-6kHz ~ Adds presence
6-8kHz ~ Adds sibilance and clarity
8-12kHz ~ Adds brightness

Piano

Any apparent muddiness can be rolled off around 300Hz. Apply a very small boost around 6kHz to add some clarity.

50-100Hz ~ Adds bottom
100-250Hz ~ Adds roundness
250-1kHz ~ Muddiness area
1-6kHz ~ Adds presence
6-8Khz ~ Adds clarity
8-12kHz ~ Adds hiss

Electric guitars

Again this depends on the mix and the recording. Apply either cut or boost around 300hz, depending on the song and sound. Try boosting around 3kHz to add some edge to the sound, or cut to add some transparency. Try boosting around 6kHz to add presence. Try boosting around 10kHz to add brightness.

100-250Hz ~ Adds body
250-800Hz ~ Muddiness area
1-6Khz ~ Cuts through the mix
6-8kHz ~ Adds clarity
8=12kHz ~ Adds hiss

Acoustic guitar

Any apparent muddiness can be rolled off between 100-300Hz. Apply small amounts of cut around 1-3kHz to push the image higher. Apply small amounts of boost around 5kHz to add some presence.

100-250Hz ~ Adds body
6-8kHz ~ Adds clarity
8-12kHz ~ Adds brightness

Strings

These depend entirely on the mix and the sound used.

50-100Hz ~ Adds bottom end
100-250Hz ~ Adds body
250-800Hz ~ Muddiness area
1-6hHz ~ Sounds crunchy
6-8kHz ~ Adds clarity
8-12kHz ~ Adds brightness

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

All you gotta do is start with a compression ratio of 1:1, threshold of -0dBFS and attack and release set to auto. It a perfect set of settings to start with, and you can fine tune from there.

G.

 

[.guitar]

It's easy to give general suggestions for EQ, but not for compression. Dynamics are so different from performance to performance, not to mention instruments, songs, etc. so it's impossible.

I just start with everything at default settings, and then set the attack time.

For a lot of rhythm guitar stuff, I'll bring the threshold down to about -6db below the peak level of the track. Then I set the ratio. You can usually hear the compressor start "pumping", then I'll bring down the threshold and make other smaller adjustments until it sounds right.

Then do A/B checks with it bypassed and enabled and keep adjusting until it sounds right.

So really, I bring all settings way past where they should be, and bring them down until it sounds right. It's easier to get the right settings this way, in my opinion, especially when you don't have much experience with them.

But if you're stupid, fat, and ugly, it doesn't really matter how good it sounds.

 

[Waffleness]

Nearly every instrument there had this:

250-800Hz = Mud

Well, to be honest if you pull down 250 to 800 on every instrument, its going to sound awful!

With compression, as glen said start on 1:1 and tweak until you get what you want.

 

[Audi0Fr3ak]

EQs

Your EQs don't make complete sense to me. Brilliance CAN be found at the higher frequencies, but boosting the frequencies at 8k will only kill my ears.. if you want to add brilliance I'd be looking more in the 2-3k area. Maybe others would disagree but you might want to go through and check those through trial and error.