![]() Of course that leads us back to those nagging questions: How much attenuation are we doing? How fast? How quickly are we letting go of the attenuation? There are a number of different designs to this attenuation circuit, but they ultimately aim at the same goal: turn the signal down when the detector says so. I’d like to discuss the processor side of the compressor first. That’s a little weird to picture at first, but it actually helps quite a bit to think of two processes separately - the actual effected signal that is output, and a signal that’s determining what the compressor is acting on. Thus, we kind of have the kick drum existing in two forms at once. It’s a “chain” of circuitry that exists on the “side” of the main signal so that the compressor can figure out how the main signal should be effected. It travels down its signal path into the processor, but it also goes down another path to the detector known as “the sidechain.” If you think about that phrase “sidechain”, it’s actually very descriptive of the detector path. ![]() When we send a kick drum through a compressor, that signal splits into two routes. We can think of a compressor as two circuits: a “processor” which effects the signal, and “detector” which tells the processor how to act. In order to understand what compression does we need to understand how it generally works. The big question is: what parameters are we giving this robot finger to operate within? Are we having the attenuation happen fast, slow, somewhere in the middle? Are we doing a lot of attenuation or just a little? How much amplitude is required to make this attenuation occur? As these questions get more specific, compression starts to get a bit more complex. ![]() With less signal, the finger attenuates less or not at all. ![]() As more signal comes in, the finger turns down the signal going out. It’s like a little robotic finger on a volume knob that reacts to an incoming signal. So good news - if you’re struggling with compression it’s gonna click and you’ll just “get it.” Hopefully, this guide you are reading will help that happen.Įssentially compression is just dynamic manipulation. However, it’s actually fairly simple once the understanding takes place. It can be a bit difficult to picture and hear what’s really happening, making it a little tricky to understand. I haven't tried it (and I'm a bit interested) but I also wouldn't turn to a variable-mu compressor as my first choice for techno mastering based on how much slower it is compared to VCA or FET.Compression is a bit of a heady topic. Take the compressor off and your mix probably sounds way worse than if you started without it. You make things that you end up turning waaay up because your compressor is clamping down on things and you've forgotten that it's there doing it's thing. You don't know the full extent of your track so you don't know the threshold and exact attack/release values yet. Contrast that to mixing into a compressor- you work on things with this big screen over everything- levels are always either increasing or decreasing depending on where that compressor sits. You get everything well balanced and loud, then you add your compressor to the final version your mix has taken and maybe tweak the levels of certain things to get the groove right. Think about mixing as you go regularly- ok you hear everything true to what it sounds like- you watch your meters and maybe even do some sub-mix processing to a drum bus or something. It adds another layer of complexity that inhibits creative excursions IMO. I really wouldn't recommend mixing into a compressor. Please use flair if you would like to share your pages. Posting links to Self-Promotional content like youtube or soundcloud.Posting personal blogs that include links to paid software or commercially distributed music.If you post a feedback request to the front page it will be deleted by a moderator.ĭ DO NOT share, discuss or promote links to warez, torrents, or pirated software. Mastering and Audio Engineering Services Labels and DistributionĪ ALL feedback requests must be posted to the sticky on the top of the page. Hardware and Software Synchronization Boxes Hosted by u/rarebiird New episodes 3rd week of the month. Join our official Discord for live chat discussions and feedbackĪIR is an interview podcast series with a different theme each episode. To technofy is to become aware of the coevolution of machine and human, the secret life of machines, the computerization of the world, the programming of history, the informatics of reality.Kodwo Eshun, More Brilliant Than The Sun 1998, p.103 Regular Events Press PATTERN CLEAR for rhythmatic synthesis. Press the ENTER button on the Roland composer. it's necessary to technofy first yourself, then the world.
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