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frosty55
Member
How long has multiband compression been around, and what did they do before it hit the scene?
Massive Master
www.massivemastering.com
Digital maul-the-band compression? Since the 90's (just like almost every other plug I suppose).
What they did before it...
No one (well, "hardly anyone") uses it now much less then (no matter how hard the marketing guys try to convince everyone otherwise). It's occasionally handy to have around, but 99% of the time, it's a fix for something that went terribly wrong earlier in the process.
That said - "back in the day" you used multiple compressors and a crossover (just like the plugs are now). Every large-scale PA system on the planet has been run through what is essentially a multi-band compressor for decades. And once in a blue moon, something was wrecked enough to require it in the studio or during mastering. Thank goodness, it was rather rare.
Then the Finalizer came out and it turned into the flavor of the month and everyone was convinced that everyone had and always used a maul-the-band compressor.
What they did before it...
No one (well, "hardly anyone") uses it now much less then (no matter how hard the marketing guys try to convince everyone otherwise). It's occasionally handy to have around, but 99% of the time, it's a fix for something that went terribly wrong earlier in the process.
That said - "back in the day" you used multiple compressors and a crossover (just like the plugs are now). Every large-scale PA system on the planet has been run through what is essentially a multi-band compressor for decades. And once in a blue moon, something was wrecked enough to require it in the studio or during mastering. Thank goodness, it was rather rare.
Then the Finalizer came out and it turned into the flavor of the month and everyone was convinced that everyone had and always used a maul-the-band compressor.
miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
Late '60s/early '70s....and were in use by radio stations long before the DAW plug-ins came along, like how now everyone puts one on everything, and it's become part of the mixing stage too.
They are not a necessity (more like a craze these days)...so recording/mixing engineers got along quite well without them.
They are not a necessity (more like a craze these days)...so recording/mixing engineers got along quite well without them.
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RAMI
Guest
I think you're getting mixed up. That's when the female orgasm was invented.
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
I believe I witnessed one about that time!
miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
No...they happend together.
Some guy invented the multi-band compressor and it made the music sound so good...his wife had an orgasm.
Music and female sexuality has never been the same since.....
Some guy invented the multi-band compressor and it made the music sound so good...his wife had an orgasm.
Music and female sexuality has never been the same since.....
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
Can't find a video but maybe someone else can of the woman on a speaker within the Howard Sterns movie Private parts.
PDP
There once was a note
I'm no expert, but for some reason sending the bass and kick to a separate buss with a compressor and EQ sounds way better than a multiband. I've never found a use for one either.
Washburn100
New member
I have to disagree. I've slept with 100's of woman since the sixties, and as far as I can tell, it's never been invented.
guitaristic
prophet of Dave
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NYMorningstar
Recording Modus Operandi
That's when it was perfected with a little plug in.
Washburn100
New member
NOW THAT MAKES SENSE!!
Meaty, Beaty, Big & Bouncy wasn't about sex, it was about compression,
or, er, is it the other way round??
Meaty, Beaty, Big & Bouncy wasn't about sex, it was about compression,
or, er, is it the other way round??