dobro
Well-known member
Multiband compression question.
I've started experimenting with frequency analysis and multiband compression as a way to tame just the loudest frequencies of a track, rather than compressing the whole track.
Sometimes that 'loudest frequency' is a fundamental or overtone, and sometimes it's just a kind of rogue frequency that doesn't have so much to do with the fundamental. Taming those rogue frequencies makes sense to me, as long as the result sounds good.
Okay, here's my question, and I'm afraid it isn't very clear, because I'm confused. Given that you have to listen to things to make the final decision, how often do you apply selective compression to loud frequencies (bass and kick, for example), and how often do you leave them alone, because they carry so much of the energy of the instrument? I'm talking especially about fundamentals and overtones.
I've started experimenting with frequency analysis and multiband compression as a way to tame just the loudest frequencies of a track, rather than compressing the whole track.
Sometimes that 'loudest frequency' is a fundamental or overtone, and sometimes it's just a kind of rogue frequency that doesn't have so much to do with the fundamental. Taming those rogue frequencies makes sense to me, as long as the result sounds good.
Okay, here's my question, and I'm afraid it isn't very clear, because I'm confused. Given that you have to listen to things to make the final decision, how often do you apply selective compression to loud frequencies (bass and kick, for example), and how often do you leave them alone, because they carry so much of the energy of the instrument? I'm talking especially about fundamentals and overtones.