What is your favorite plugin to compress a mix? It could be on the mix bus or in the mastering chain. Preferably I'm looking at mixes without drums, like for folky music, bluegrass, etc.. My thoughts with the mixes I've been working with in bluegrass, not much compression is needed at all. A lot of bands are doing the 3:1 ratio compression. I'm using the Waves dbx-160 and finding it pretty good when you just barely get a threshold signal.
But I'm always open to different ideas. Compressors are so very different from one another, even if you can set the settings the same.
But I'm always open to different ideas. Compressors are so very different from one another, even if you can set the settings the same.