vf-16 copressor

[wjgypsy]

can someone help me!!


for almost a year now i have been trying to get a good drum track or sound.(and have got close) but i'm still not there(yet!)

this is what i have to work with... a shure beta 52(kick), a sm57
(snare) and some v-tech mic(overheads).
what my main mission right now is the snare drum(but if you have any good kick or overhead tip please go ahead and post them.)
the other night i was fooling arould with the compresser on the snare channel. set some settings and recorded the snare and it was about 90%of what i wanted!
the only thing...it was the master compressor so i could not set it there because i did not want to compress every thing. so i turned on the channel compressor and set the same settings as on the master compressor and it sounded about 10% of what the master compressor sounded like!


can someone please, please help!!!!!!!!!!!


zeke

 

[MONTE]

What kind of board, what kind of compressors, how is the stuff plugged in, what are your settings, blah blah blah. More info=more help.

 

[wjgypsy]

o.k.

well, i'm using a fostex vf-16 recorder so the mixer is made inside
of the recorder. the compresser is already in there to and it's made by fostex but i can tell you what kind of control that the compressor gives... treshold,ratio,gain and attack.

for my snare drum i fing that settings like...

tresh:40-db/ratio:0.0/attack:8ms and 10.db of gain gives it that snap sound.



is that good?