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Chris Jahn
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Ok, i of course understand the over all purpose and applications of compression.
But, a few threads back (the one about "metal" attack on the drums) someone gave a response that kinda threw me for a loop.
They said that in order to get a sharp attack on the kick i should try a SLOW attack time. That seemed counter intuitve to me.
The basic fucntions on any compressor are:attack, release, threshold, and ratio, correct?
Mabye im getting fast and slow backwards, and there appropriate aplications.
This is were i sound new, in my mind 3ms is "fast" and 290 or whatever would be slow, ones short, and one is long (fast, slow), is it backwards from that?
Can anyone give some hypothetical compressor settings for some varying
results.
Like for instance (even though i hate nirvana) i know that kurt cobains vocals were supposedly very compressed, what would very compressed vocals look like in terms of Ratio, attack, etc...or what would a tight metal kick drum, or bass guitar look like.
on a side note i know that a technique called "thwaking" was used on cobains vocals, i believe it was somthing like one super compressed track on top of an identical non compressed track in the mix, giving an over all warmer and bigger effect. Heard of this? know how it works? does it apply to other situations?
But, a few threads back (the one about "metal" attack on the drums) someone gave a response that kinda threw me for a loop.
They said that in order to get a sharp attack on the kick i should try a SLOW attack time. That seemed counter intuitve to me.
The basic fucntions on any compressor are:attack, release, threshold, and ratio, correct?
Mabye im getting fast and slow backwards, and there appropriate aplications.
This is were i sound new, in my mind 3ms is "fast" and 290 or whatever would be slow, ones short, and one is long (fast, slow), is it backwards from that?
Can anyone give some hypothetical compressor settings for some varying
results.
Like for instance (even though i hate nirvana) i know that kurt cobains vocals were supposedly very compressed, what would very compressed vocals look like in terms of Ratio, attack, etc...or what would a tight metal kick drum, or bass guitar look like.
on a side note i know that a technique called "thwaking" was used on cobains vocals, i believe it was somthing like one super compressed track on top of an identical non compressed track in the mix, giving an over all warmer and bigger effect. Heard of this? know how it works? does it apply to other situations?