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Alright. I am wondering how I would go about setting up a compressor so I can use it while recording and after recording. The setup that I will have is a Soundcraft FX8 Mixer, DBX 166XL Compressor, Maya1010 souncard, and Cool Edit Pro 2.0. Also, assume I am recording drums and am using 8 channels for it. Is there anyway I can do a slight compression on them before recording without buying 8 compressors? And what if I wanted to add an enhancer in my setup? Thanks a lot for the help!
 
NorthShoreNewb said:
Alright. I am wondering how I would go about setting up a compressor so I can use it while recording and after recording. The setup that I will have is a Soundcraft FX8 Mixer, DBX 166XL Compressor, Maya1010 souncard, and Cool Edit Pro 2.0. Also, assume I am recording drums and am using 8 channels for it. Is there anyway I can do a slight compression on them before recording without buying 8 compressors? And what if I wanted to add an enhancer in my setup? Thanks a lot for the help!
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Im no expert on this but the way i would do it would be to have your drum tracks running into your computer the set the output from thos tracks to whatever output is plugged into your compressor then have the output from your compressor running back into your computer and record that input, that will mean that all your drums are on 1 track and they all have the same compression so the short answer is I dont think so if your recording more than 1 track at a time this way, sorry.
 
Yea. I want the 8 individual drum tracks instead of just one.
 
Probably won't need to compress all eight channels (do you really need eight channels for drums)... but you do need a compressor for each channel you want to compress... You can also try recording dry and then printing compressing channels individually... you could do that with one unit...
 
I was just using drums as an example. But I would like to be able to compress a bit as I record because some of the vocals I do will go from singing to screaming.
 
NorthShoreNewb said:
I was just using drums as an example. But I would like to be able to compress a bit as I record because some of the vocals I do will go from singing to screaming.
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go into cool edit pro and draw in the volume on those tracks so that you turn down the input when its louder then you wont get distortion and you can mess with it later, Just an idea.
 
put the compressor into an auxilary send and return loop and dial in the compressor on each channel.
 
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